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Jason Momoa has two big blockbusters still to hit theaters in 2026. The first is a live-action adaptation of Street Fighter, directed by Kitao Sakurai, and featuring Andrew Koji as Ryu, Noah Centineo as Ken, Callina Liang as Chun-Li, David Dastmalchian as M. Bison, and Momoa as Blanka. Street Fighter will be released by Paramount Pictures on October 16, 2026, marking the final step in Momoa’s 2026 filmography before his biggest film of the year: Dune: Part Three.

The final installment in Denis Villeneuve‘s acclaimed adaptation of Frank Herbert‘s Dune novels, the third Dune movie will make its global theatrical splash on December 18, the same day as Avengers: Doomsday. Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides will once again lead a stacked cast, which also includes Momoa as Hayt, Javier Bardem as Stilgar, Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica, Anya Taylor-Joy as Alia Atreides, Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan, and more. In anticipation of Momoa’s next two blockbusters, one of his lesser-spotted movies is about to be available for free.

The film in question is the neo-Western Braven, directed by Lin Oeding and written by Mike Nilon and Thomas Pa’a Sibbett, which features Momoa in a kill-or-be-killed stand for survival after a quiet trip to a remote cabin is interrupted by a gang of ruthless drug traffickers. Momoa might be known for his bold, loud performances, but in Braven, he tones it down, producing one of his most subdued and subsequently stirring performances yet. A truly underrated entry into the Game of Thrones favorite’s filmography, Braven will be available to stream for free on Plex starting September 1, 2026.

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Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt

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Rambo

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Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

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Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

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Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

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Jason Momoa’s Latest Movie Was a Flop

A photo shot from down low of Jason Momoa holding an axe in a scene from Braven.
Image via Saban Films
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Although his first film of the year alongside Dave Bautista in Prime Video’s The Wrecking Crew proved an undeniable streaming smash, Momoa’s big summer movie of 2026 came in the form of Supergirl, which followed last year’s box office success, Superman. Alas, Milly Alcock‘s first headliner as Kara Zor-El couldn’t recreate Superman‘s success, becoming quickly unstuck and whimpering out of theaters with just $126 million worldwide, against a reported budget of $170 million. “Supergirl didn’t meet our box office expectations,” said DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran about Supergirl. “It’s just one component of a broader, long-term strategy at DC Studios that we remain confident in.”

Braven will be available to stream for free on Plex starting September 1, 2026. Stay tuned to Collider for more streaming stories.


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Release Date

February 2, 2018

Director

Lin Oeding

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Writers

Thomas Pa’a Sibbett, Michael Nilon

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