Some of my favourites are the "Transporter" movie trilogy, "Death Race (2008)", "Blitz (2011)", "Homefront (2013)".

@M.LeMarchand said:

Sky, who bought "The Beekeeper" and the forthcoming "Mutiny" and are probably the UK's biggest satellite/streaming provider have started a dedicated channel for Jason Statham movies.

https://www.sky.com/tv-guide/20240612/4101-1/302

The page comes up blank (mostly) for me. It shows the header & 'footer' but in between is blank. Maybe because I'm in the US?

@bratface said:

The page comes up blank (mostly) for me. It shows the header & 'footer' but in between is blank. Maybe because I'm in the US?

Possibly, but then you normally get nothing. Have you got javascript blocked?

If I can get some time tomorrow I'll try to upload a screenshot somewhere.

@M.LeMarchand said:

@bratface said:

The page comes up blank (mostly) for me. It shows the header & 'footer' but in between is blank. Maybe because I'm in the US?

Possibly, but then you normally get nothing. Have you got javascript blocked?

If I can get some time tomorrow I'll try to upload a screenshot somewhere.

??

As for javascript. I have no idea. But I did a search for his name on the page & it came up with 8 movies that were showing on Sky Cinema?

@bratface said:

@M.LeMarchand said:

@bratface said:

The page comes up blank (mostly) for me. It shows the header & 'footer' but in between is blank. Maybe because I'm in the US?

Possibly, but then you normally get nothing. Have you got javascript blocked?

If I can get some time tomorrow I'll try to upload a screenshot somewhere.

??

As for javascript. I have no idea. But I did a search for his name on the page & it came up with 8 movies that were showing on Sky Cinema?

The page https://www.sky.com/watch/what-to-watch/jason-statham-movies shows 12 movies, but doesn't include "Meg 2: The Trench (2023)", which is in the tvguide https://www.sky.com/tv-guide/20240612/4101-1/302?np=y

@bratface said:

As for javascript. I have no idea. But I did a search for his name on the page & it came up with 8 movies that were showing on Sky Cinema?

I normally have javascript turned off by default (for various techie reasons). Looking at that page, it is being provided from 3 places: Adobe and two Sky places. You get the effect you describe if the Sky bits are blocked, so I'd say you're right about Sky not serving to you. Take a look here instead: https://www.tvguide.co.uk/channel/sky-cinema-statham

@wonder2wonder said:

The page https://www.sky.com/watch/what-to-watch/jason-statham-movies shows 12 movies, but doesn't include "Meg 2: The Trench (2023)", which is in the tvguide https://www.sky.com/tv-guide/20240612/4101-1/302?np=y

The first is an older page that they obviously haven't updated since they started showing "The Beekeeper" while the second is the "now showing" page that, if you squint, you can just see the channel name. Mind you, looking ahead it looks like this tribute to Britain's greatest actor ends today as, from tomorrow, non-JS movies seem to be showing even if the channel's name appears not to be reverting.

@M.LeMarchand said:

@bratface said:

As for javascript. I have no idea. But I did a search for his name on the page & it came up with 8 movies that were showing on Sky Cinema?

I normally have javascript turned off by default (for various techie reasons). Looking at that page, it is being provided from 3 places: Adobe and two Sky places. You get the effect you describe if the Sky bits are blocked, so I'd say you're right about Sky not serving to you. Take a look here instead: https://www.tvguide.co.uk/channel/sky-cinema-statham

I haven't seen 'The Beekeeper' yet, as for the others, I have seen Fast X (to see Jason Momoa & Statham). My favs are the Transporter movies, LSATSB, The Bank Job, Blitz, & Safe.

If this is what I think it is, it's pretty tremendous news: actors/artists taking control of their own content and distributing it directly to the fans. Kinda akin to what a lot of bands & musicians started doing in the late 90s by creating personal websites to sell and share their albums instead of going through the record company machine.

I'd love to know how he worked out the licensing, because I'm sure the studios still own all the rights. I guess he has to pay a licensing fee back to them (for his own material?). Or did he pull a David Bowie/Taylor Swift and actually buy the rights to keep total control? I doubt that would be feasible in the film world where we're talking about enormous price tags. One way or another I think this is a good thing for fans. More access straight from the people who created it.

@rooprect said:

If this is what I think it is, it's pretty tremendous news: actors/artists taking control of their own content and distributing it directly to the fans. Kinda akin to what a lot of bands & musicians started doing in the late 90s by creating personal websites to sell and share their albums instead of going through the record company machine.

I'd love to know how he worked out the licensing, because I'm sure the studios still own all the rights. I guess he has to pay a licensing fee back to them (for his own material?). Or did he pull a David Bowie/Taylor Swift and actually buy the rights to keep total control? I doubt that would be feasible in the film world where we're talking about enormous price tags. One way or another I think this is a good thing for fans. More access straight from the people who created it.

Sorry to disappoint, but it's like HBO showing a season of Statham movies. It just happens that the way Sky is set up, they have numerous film channels (Action, Comedy, Classics etc) and renamed one "Sky Movies Statham" for a few days. Apparently they also did this a couple of times with their purchase of "The Beekeeper". Still pretty good for JS as (AFAIK, I could well be wring) they have yet to do "Sky Movies Cruise".

@M.LeMarchand said:

@rooprect said:

If this is what I think it is, it's pretty tremendous news: actors/artists taking control of their own content and distributing it directly to the fans. Kinda akin to what a lot of bands & musicians started doing in the late 90s by creating personal websites to sell and share their albums instead of going through the record company machine.

I'd love to know how he worked out the licensing, because I'm sure the studios still own all the rights. I guess he has to pay a licensing fee back to them (for his own material?). Or did he pull a David Bowie/Taylor Swift and actually buy the rights to keep total control? I doubt that would be feasible in the film world where we're talking about enormous price tags. One way or another I think this is a good thing for fans. More access straight from the people who created it.

Sorry to disappoint, but it's like HBO showing a season of Statham movies. It just happens that the way Sky is set up, they have numerous film channels (Action, Comedy, Classics etc) and renamed one "Sky Movies Statham" for a few days. Apparently they also did this a couple of times with their purchase of "The Beekeeper". Still pretty good for JS as (AFAIK, I could well be wring) they have yet to do "Sky Movies Cruise".

Aw bummer, not quite the revolution I'm waiting for but still pretty cool. (And maybe it'll plant the idea for the future...?)

Oddly enough my first Stratham movie was Spy where he plays a hilarious caricature of himself, so I always thought of him as a great deadpan comedian. I might need this marathon to reset myself.

Jason Stratham is a real spy