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Netflix Turns Jason Statham’s 42% RT ‘Equalizer’ Alternative Into a Streaming Smash
Jason Statham hasn’t exactly started the year on a hot streak after his new movie, Shelter, is struggling to get off the ground at the box office. The action thriller carries a $40 million budget, but it’s grossed only $29 million at the box office at the time of writing. Statham will have a chance to redeem himself later this year when Mutiny comes out this August, though. Over the years, he’s starred in plenty of action hits and misses, so Shelter‘s unfortunate box office failure likely won’t hold him back at all.
However, long before the idea of Shelter ever popped into anyone’s head, Statham starred in a critically panned drug crime thriller that’s finally getting its due on streaming. Statham stars alongside Winona Ryder (Stranger Things) and James Franco (Spider-Man 3) in Homefront, a conspiracy thriller following a former DEA agent who moves to a quiet town to spend more time with his daughter, when he gets tangled up with a local meth drug lord. Homefront has been compared to Denzel Washington’s first Equalizer movie, with both films having similar plots following a retired former operative who is pulled back into the action.
Homefront recently began streaming on Netflix in America, where it’s quietly become one of the streamer’s top 10 most popular movies in the last week. The film earned scores of 42% from critics and 61% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, and it grossed $48 million at the box office against a $22 million budget. Sylvester Stallone wrote the script for Homefront with Gary Fleder directing. Stallone originally wrote the part in Homefront for himself, but he later chose to go with Statham after deciding he was too old for the role.
Does Jason Statham Have Any Other Movies on Netflix?
Jason Statham does have other movies streaming on Netflix, but one of them is confirmed to leave soon. Netflix is removing Snatch, the crime thriller co-starring Brad Pitt, from its streaming library at the end of the month on February 28. Wrath of Man, the 2021 action thriller directed by Guy Ritchie, is also streaming on Netflix right now. It was one of the platform’s most popular movies in January. The fourth Expendables movie has even been confirmed to begin streaming on Netflix later this month, on February 20.
Be sure to watch Homefront before it leaves Netflix, and stay tuned to Collider for more streaming updates.
- Release Date
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November 27, 2013
- Runtime
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100 minutes
- Director
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Gary Fleder