UPDATE: Mutiny has now debuted as the most pirated movie of the week, with the worldwide box office stalled around $16 million and buyers hoping Amazon makes a good-faith offer over the leak.
Amazon’s Mutiny mistake is now entering the expensive part.
Lionsgate and the film’s producers are evaluating how much damage was caused when Amazon accidentally streamed the entire Jason Statham movie on Prime Video three days before its theatrical release, according to Matt Belloni’s latest What I’m Hearing newsletter via Puck News.
The timing gives them their first number to work with.
Mutiny opened to $7,709,519 domestically across the August 21 to August 23 frame, per Box Office Mojo, slightly above Sunday’s $7.5 million studio estimate but still well below Statham’s recent theatrical openings.
That puts Mutiny in fifth place behind Spider-Man: Brand New Day in its fourth weekend, Insidious: Out of the Further, The Odyssey and PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie.
Amazon Starts Counting The Damage
Belloni reports Lionsgate declined to comment on the box office, but the studio and the producers are now trying to determine exactly what the Prime Video leak cost them.
Amazon, meanwhile, is investigating how the movie was uploaded in the first place.
Belloni’s bet: Amazon is going to have to write a check, or several.
That tracks with what international buyers were already saying last week, when one told Deadline the mistake created a multimillion-dollar problem for Amazon and that distributors would expect to be made whole.
The $7.7 Million Weekend
Deadline reports Mutiny earned $700,000 in Thursday previews, folded into a $2.8 million Friday. Saturday also brought in $2.8 million, followed by $1.9 million Sunday.
Take the previews out and Friday proper was closer to $2.1 million, meaning Saturday jumped roughly a third over the film’s first full day.
That does not look like word of mouth killed it. The people who showed up appear to have been fine with the movie, which currently carries an 86% Rotten Tomatoes audience score.
The bigger problem was getting enough people through the door in the first place.
How It Compares For Statham
Mutiny beat Statham’s other 2026 release, Shelter, which opened to $5.5 million in January. But it came in at roughly half his previous two theatrical swings.
A Working Man opened to $15.5 million in March 2025, while The Beekeeper opened to $16.6 million in January 2024 and went on to bring in over $160 million.
Mutiny played in about 2,700 North American locations and carries a reported $40 million production budget.
Deadline pegged it as a $50 million-plus net picture once acquisition and marketing are included, with Lionsgate paying eight figures for domestic rights.
There is one consolation prize: Mutiny posted the biggest domestic opening weekend for a non-science-fiction action movie in 2026 so far, topping In the Grey at $2.9 million and Motor City at $1.7 million.
That probably says more about the state of the genre this year than it does about Mutiny.
The International Run Could Decide The Bill
Box Office Mojo currently lists just $49,389 internationally against a $7,758,908 worldwide total. That is not a meaningful overseas number yet. Markets are still reporting.
Mutiny opened in France and the Middle East ahead of its domestic launch and was reportedly performing well before the leak surfaced.
This is where the real damage could be measured.
Statham has been an international draw for two decades, and mid-budget action movies like this routinely make most of their money outside North America. Several territories have not opened Mutiny yet, and they are now entering release with a clean copy of the movie circulating online for days.
Statham has seen this before. The Expendables 3 leaked online three weeks ahead of its 2014 release, finished under $40 million domestically, but still reached roughly $215 million worldwide because the international run held up.
Whether Mutiny gets anything close to that overseas rescue will help determine just how expensive Amazon’s mistake becomes.
About Mutiny
Directed by Jean-François Richet, Mutiny stars Statham as Cole Reed, a former Special Forces operative working private security who witnesses the murder of his billionaire industrialist boss, gets framed for the crime, and boards a cargo ship to hunt down those responsible, uncovering an international conspiracy.
Annabelle Wallis, Roland Møller, Jason Wong, Arnas Fedaravičius and Adrian Lester co-star. Lindsay Michel and J.P. Davis wrote the script. Statham produces with Marc Butan through Punch Palace Productions and MadRiver Pictures.
The film is rated R, runs 95 minutes, and is in theaters now.
