An iconicMel Gibsonaction franchise is finding a new streaming home soon. While Gibson was born in New York state, his family moved to Australia when he was 12, and that is where he got his start as an actor. Some of his first major projects were Australian, including the 1981 war dramaGallipoliand the first threeMad Maxmovies.
Collectively,Mel Gibson moviesfeaturing him as an actor havegrossed more than $4.7 billion worldwide. Some of his biggest titles are M. Night Shyamalan’s sci-fi horror outingSigns(which grossed $408.2 million against a reported budget of $72 million) and the Nancy Meyers romantic comedyWhat Women Want($374.1 million against $70 million).
As a director and producer, he has also found critical and commercial success. His 2004 religious dramaThe Passion of the Christearned $612.1 million against a reported $30 million budget, whilehe was nominated for Oscars as a director forBraveheartandHacksaw Ridgeand as a producer forBraveheart, winning both of hisBraveheartawards.
A New Streamer Will Have The Lethal Weapon Franchise In August
All Four Movies Are Coming To The Same Place
The fourLethal Weaponmovies, which collectively grossed $952.6 million worldwide, are finding a new streaming home.The action-comedy franchise stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as mismatched buddy cops, namely the reckless Martin Riggs and the more buttoned-up Roger Murtaugh.
Afterfour feature-length installments came to theaters between 1987 and 1998, the franchise was rebooted as a Fox television series starring Clayne Crawford as Riggs and Damon Wayans as Murtaugh, which ran for three seasons between 2016 and 2019.
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PerTV Guide,all fourLethal Weaponmovies are set to come to the streaming service Tubion Friday, August 1. While the original quadrilogy will be streaming on the platform, the Fox reboot series will remain on its current streaming platform, which is Prime Video.
What This Means For Lethal Weapon
The Franchise Is Finally Reunited On Streaming
This move to Tubi will markthe first time that all four movies have been on the same streamer for quite a while. At the time of writing, while the first, third, and fourth films are available on Fubo,Lethal Weapon 2is not available on any free or subscription-based streaming service.
Lethal Weaponis leaving Fubo on July 30, whileLethal Weapon 3andLethal Weapon 4are leaving on July 31.
While thepossibleLethal Weapon 5is in development hell in spite ofMel Gibsonsaying he will return to direct and co-star alongside Danny Glover, the fact that all four movies are now in the same place could help spur that process to finally move forward if their simultaneous availability translates to strong streaming numbers on the new platform.
