Buckle Up: Jason Statham’s $839 Million Action Hits Are Speeding Off Netflix Soon
Stream them while you can: Netflix is yanking all four Expendables movies on Saturday, June 20, 2026, pulling Jason Statham’s $839 million merc-squad mayhem from the platform. The franchise, co-written by David Callaham and Sylvester Stallone, exits next month.
If you were planning to catch up on Jason Statham shooting, punching, and wisecracking his way through ridiculous odds, time is ticking. Netflix is kicking all four Expendables films off its UK platform next year. Not the kind of warning you get for most action franchises, but that’s what’s going on here – so, if you had a daft rewatch lined up, you’ll need to get a move on.
When is the Expendables pack getting the chop?
All four movies get yanked on Saturday, 20 June 2026. No, that’s not a typo – plenty of notice, but still a curious move for a streamer that loves to drop things out of nowhere.
Who dreamt up this gleeful carnage?
The original Expendables was written by David Callaham – the same bloke who did Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, if you hadn’t clocked that. Sylvester Stallone then jumped in, co-writing and directing the film, and basically making it a sort of who’s-who of 80s and 90s action stars that, let’s be honest, sometimes feels like it’s been written by a 12-year-old with a big box of matches.
The whole point of The Expendables
The pitch: a group of elite mercenaries called The Expendables, run by Stallone as Barney Ross, get hired for a series of increasingly bonkers black ops jobs that the government prefers not to deal with officially. With every sequel, the double-crosses and explosions get larger and more improbable, and the team’s lineup just keeps ballooning.
Star Power on Steroids
- Jason Statham
- Sylvester Stallone
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Dolph Lundgren
- Randy Couture
- Jet Li
- Chuck Norris
- Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Harrison Ford
- Tony Jaa
- Wesley Snipes
If you like your cast lists as dense as a 1990s action DVD shelf, these films are basically Avengers Assemble for dads.
Box Office vs Rotten Critics
The first Expendables came out in August 2010, and while critics weren’t bowled over (41% on Rotten Tomatoes), audiences were at least a bit keener (64%). With an $80 million budget and $268 million global haul, you can see why they kept making sequels:
The follow-up in 2012 was the critics’ favourite (68% RT approval, if you track these things). Then the shine wore off. The Expendables 3 in 2014 fared far worse, and the most recent, 2023’s Expend4bles (yes, that’s genuinely what the title looks like), basically tanked with a woeful 14% critics score and barely made back half its $100 million budget worldwide – $51.1 million is what it dragged over the finish line.
Collectively, though, the four films have racked up nearly $840 million. That’s a stack of cash for a load of middle-aged blokes firing guns and tossing grenades.
A promised (but totally missing) spin-off
Lionsgate did announce an all-female version, cheerily titled The Expendabelles, back in 2022. But unless it’s being kept in a locked briefcase next to the Ark of the Covenant, that’s still missing in action.
'The Expendables franchise has made almost $840 million globally – but after June 2026, you won't find any of them on Netflix UK.'