Guy Ritchie & Jason Statham’s R-Rated Thriller That Broke A 16-Year Streak Is One Of The Biggest Movies In The World

Published Sep 20, 2026, 5:09 PM EDT Felipe Rangel is a Movie and TV Journalist ScreenRant. He has been writing about movies and TV since 2021. Felipe joined ScreenRant in 2022, working across different teams, covering everything from breaking news to features to reviews and more. Felipe is a writer who is an avid film and TV fan, with superhero movies and series being his biggest passion. He graduated from college in 2019, having studied Journalism. Before college, he spent a month studying at the Oxford English Centre. His superhero knowledge expands to the comics, with his undergraduate thesis being "Politics Reflected In American Comics." Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham are behind an action thriller movie that has become one of the biggest films in the world on streaming. 2026 has proven itself a successful year for Ritchie on streaming, with the director finding success on multiple streaming services with both movies and TV shows. That list of projects includes releases that are trending now, like the spy thriller movie In The Grey, which stars Henry Cavill and Jake Gyllenhaal, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which has Cavill and Alan Ritchson in a star-studded cast, Netflix's The Gentlemen season 2, and Paramount+'s crime thriller MobLand. That said, when it comes to Statham's history with Ritchie, the director and actor might not have worked together on any of those movies or TV shows, but they have teamed up several times over the years. Statham has been working with Ritchie since the director's first movie, 1998's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Since then, they have collaborated on several action films, including projects like Revolver and Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre. That is a common practice for Ritchie, who has also worked with actors like Cavill, Gyllenhaal, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, multiple times. Now, Statham and Ritchie's Wrath of Man has found streaming success. Ritchie & Statham's Wrath Of Man Is Getting Revenge On Streaming At the time of writing, Wrath of Man has become the 2nd most-watched movie on Starz worldwide. While Ritchie and Statham's R-rated action thriller is flying high on Starz in many countries, Wrath of Man is not available on the streaming service in the United States. Instead, nationwide viewers can catch the movie on Philo and AMC+. Wrath of Man has left behind movies like the Alex Garland thriller Civil War, the shark horror movie Fear Below, and the star-studded Expend4bles, which comes from the star-studded action franchise Statham is one of the leads of, among many other movies. Right now, the only movie to rank higher than Ritchie and Statham's Wrath of Man on Starz worldwide is the Cuba Gooding Jr. spy film A Line of Fire. Wrath of Man is trending on Starz in 9 countries, which include nations like Algeria, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and more. Currently, Wrath of Man only ranks as high as the most-watched movie on Starz in one country: Oman. After working together on Wrath of Man, Ritchie and Statham teamed up once again in 2023's Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, but it was the former that managed to break a long streak. The Action Thriller Broke The Pair's Streak Of Not Working Together Ritchie and Statham have worked together on five movies thus far, including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Revolver, Wrath of Man, and Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre. However, that partnership went on a 16-year hiatus between the release of Revolver in 2005 and Wrath of Man's theatrical release in 2021. That is why Wrath of Man became such a major release for the duo, as it finally saw the actor and the director reunite after nearly two decades. Wrath of Man's newfound success on Starz worldwide keeps writing an exciting chapter in Ritchie and Statham's story. Release Date May 7, 2021 Runtime 118 minutes Director Guy Ritchie