Gerard Butler’s $74M Action Hit Is Quietly Climbing US Streaming Charts After Disappointing Sequel Cancellation

Close By Felipe Rangel Published Jun 18, 2026, 10:16 AM 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." Sign in to your ScreenRant account Gerard Butler's R-rated action thriller is flying to streaming success after a hard hit. Butler's list of movies shows how the actor is one of the most prominent names when it comes to action.

Sure, he has starred in a fair share of rom-coms over the years. However, it is in the action genre, with survival thrillers, revenge movies, and more, that Butler has shone brightly, especially in the last few years. While Butler's career has seen the actor take on sequels in recent years, like Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, Greenland 2: Migration, and the upcoming How to Train Your Dragon 2, this successful action thriller saw its sequel fall through.

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let’s see what you’ve got.” 💥ExplosionsWalk away, don’t look back 🏎Car ChasesFloor it 🥊Fist FightsNo mercy 🚁StuntsGet to the chopper 🔥MayhemBurn it all down LOCK AND LOAD → QUESTION 1 / 8DIE HARD 01 In the 1988 classic Die Hard, NYPD cop John McClane spends Christmas Eve picking off Hans Gruber’s heavily armed crew one by one inside a single Los Angeles high-rise. What is the name of that skyscraper?

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McClane’s barefoot dash across broken glass remains one of the genre’s defining moments. ✗ Missed! The answer is Nakatomi Plaza.

The film was shot in the real Fox Plaza in Century City (then Fox’s own HQ), which is likely why “Fox Tower” sounds plausible — but on screen it’s the fictional Nakatomi Plaza where Hans Gruber’s crew holds the Christmas party hostage. NEXT → QUESTION 2 / 8JUDGMENT DAY 02 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) introduced the shape-shifting T-1000, a groundbreaking villain that could melt, reform, and morph into anyone. What futuristic material is the T-1000 made of?

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The T-800 (Arnold), by contrast, is metal under living tissue. ✗ Missed! The answer is liquid metal (“mimetic poly-alloy”).

That’s what lets the T-1000 pour through prison bars, reform from a shattered frozen state, and mimic anyone it touches. The older T-800 played by Arnold is the one with a hard metal endoskeleton under flesh — the T-1000 is a whole new threat. NEXT → QUESTION 3 / 8THE WASTELAND 03 Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) was a near-non-stop desert car chase praised for its practical stunts, winning six Oscars.

Which director returned to the franchise he created decades earlier to make it? AZack Snyder BGeorge Miller CDenis Villeneuve DKathryn Bigelow ✓ Direct hit! George Miller created Mad Max with Mel Gibson back in 1979 and returned 36 years later to direct Fury Road, with Tom Hardy as Max and Charlize Theron as Furiosa.

The film leaned on real vehicles and stunts in the Namibian desert. Snyder, Villeneuve, and Bigelow are all acclaimed — but the Wasteland belongs to Miller. ✗ Missed!

The answer is George Miller — the Australian filmmaker (and former doctor) who launched the series in 1979 and came back to direct Fury Road. Zack Snyder, Denis Villeneuve, and Kathryn Bigelow are all major action/sci-fi directors, but none made Mad Max. NEXT → QUESTION 4 / 8THE BABA YAGA 04 In John Wick (2014), Keanu Reeves plays a retired hitman pulled back into a brutal underworld war after Russian gangsters break into his home.

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