Director Guy Ritchie is having a phenomenal September, and it looks like the positive momentum he has gained will continue into October. One of his biggest box-office misfires is heading to a free streaming platform, hoping to redeem itself like so many other movies directed by Ritchie have. Ritchie hasn’t delivered a hit movie since 2021’s Wrath of Man, starring Jason Statham. This hasn’t, however, stopped him from entering a particularly prolific era. In addition to making new movies every year, he has also established himself as something of a television mogul with three hit shows on three different streamers. This month, he delivered the latest seasons of his Netflix series The Gentlemen and his Paramount+ hit MobLand. He’s also working on the second season of Prime Video’s Young Sherlock.
Both The Gentlemen and MobLand continue to chart on their respective platforms, while Ritchie’s most recent theatrical release, In the Grey, remains the number-one title on Starz. Starring Eiza González, Henry Cavill, and Jake Gyllenhaal, In the Grey continued Ritchie’s disappointing box-office streak, grossing around $28 million against a reported budget of $70 million. It received mixed reviews, but found massive success after hitting streaming. It was recently joined by The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, the World War II spy thriller Ritchie directed in 2023. Also featuring Cavill and González, among others, the movie flopped at the box office, grossing around $30 million against a reported budget of $60 million. It recently found success on Netflix.
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Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes What Fantasy World Do You Belong To? Middle-earth · Grand Line · The Continent · Camp Half-Blood
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Pick your magic, your crew, where you want to wake up and who you would rather be fighting, and we will tell you which world you actually belong in. Four are open to you: an ancient kingdom living through its last good age, an endless sea full of pirates, a continent that pays people to kill monsters, and a summer camp where the Greek gods are extremely real and mostly a nuisance.
💍Middle-earth(Rings of Power)
👒Grand Line(One Piece)
🐺The Continent(The Witcher)
🔱Camp Half-Blood(Percy Jackson)
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What kind of power do you want? Every one of these worlds runs on a completely different sort of magic.
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Who is travelling with you? Nobody gets through any of these stories entirely on their own.
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Where do you want to wake up tomorrow? The best fantasy is usually just somewhere you would genuinely like to live.
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How are you making a living out there? Even in fantasy somebody has to pay for the horse.
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There is something in the woods. What do you do about it? All four of these worlds keep something unpleasant out there in the dark.
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Who is the villain of your story? The enemy tells you far more about a world than the hero ever does.
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What do you actually believe in out there? Every world hands its heroes one rule and asks them to hold onto it.
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A thousand years from now, how are you remembered? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your world.
The Map Is Drawn Your World Is…
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Four worlds and four completely different ideas of what a good life
looks like. This is where you belong, what it would ask of you, and what you would get back in
return.
The Rings of Power · Prime Video · Since 2022
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Middle-earth
You belong somewhere old enough that the mountains have names and
somebody can still tell you who gave them. Middle-earth is for people who think the right
thing is worth doing even when it will not be finished in their lifetime.
This is the only world on the list where doing good is understood as a very long defeat,
fought anyway, by people who will never see how it ends.
You are drawn to grandeur, to white cities and deep forges and the sense that almost
everything you touch is older than your entire family line.
The Rings of Power is set in the last good age before it all goes wrong, which gives
every quiet scene in it a slightly unbearable weight.
You would take the hard road, and you would take it on foot.
One Piece · Manga since 1997 · Netflix 2023
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The Grand Line
You want the sea, a crew, and absolutely nobody telling you where
you are allowed to go. The Grand Line is the world for people whose main ambition in life is
finding out what is over there.
One Piece has run for decades on one very simple engine, which is a group of people who
each want something impossible and have decided to go and get it together.
You collect people. Your ideal crew is a set of misfits who were each written off
somewhere else before you turned up and offered them a better idea.
The world is enormous and deliberately ridiculous, and the emotional gut punches land
harder because of that rather than in spite of it.
You would set sail knowing the map runs out, which is more or less the entire point of
it.
The Witcher · Netflix · Since 2019
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The Continent
You would rather be feared and useful than liked and useless. The
Continent is a world where the monsters are the straightforward part of the job and the
people are where it all gets complicated.
Witchers get paid to do what nobody else will and resented for existing at all, which is
a trade most people would refuse and you would probably accept.
You have no real illusions about which side is the good one, largely because on the
Continent that question tends to have a disappointing answer.
The best of these stories are not about the fighting. They are about somebody with a
rigid code being repeatedly cornered into caring about people.
You would take the coin, finish the job properly, and be out of town before the story
got told wrong.
Percy Jackson · Disney+ · Since 2023
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Camp Half-Blood
You want the myths to be real and loose in the actual world, and
you want to find out at about thirteen that you were never anywhere near as ordinary as
everybody kept telling you.
Percy Jackson takes the oldest stories we have and drops them into car parks and diners,
which makes the gods considerably funnier and a great deal worse.
You would be the kid every school gave up on, who turns out to have been built for
something nobody thought to test for.
The series is genuinely about friendship rather than destiny, and it says so out loud
every time a prophecy tries to get in the way.
Camp Half-Blood is the real fantasy here: a place where the thing that made you
difficult everywhere else is the thing that makes you belong.
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Here’s When Guy Ritchie’s Biggest Bomb Lands on Free Streaming
Ritchie will hope that his 2017 bomb, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, also finds its audience when it lands on Tubi this October. Designed as the first installment of a five-film franchise, the movie remains Ritchie’s biggest bomb, reportedly losing Warner Bros. as much as $150 million. Starring Charlie Hunnam and Jude Law, the film grossed around $145 million worldwide against a reported budget of $175 million. It now holds a 31% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword piles mounds of modern action flash on an age-old tale — and wipes out much of what made it a classic story in the first place.” You can watch the film on Tubi beginning October. Meanwhile, Ritchie’s upcoming theatrical film Wife & Dog is slated for release in February 2027. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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Release Date
May 12, 2017
Runtime
126 Minutes
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Producers
Akiva Goldsman, Lionel Wigram, Steve Clark-Hall, Tory Tunnell, Guy Ritchie, Joby Harold
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