Gerard Butler’s ‘John Carpenter Meets The A-Team’ Thriller Is Only On Netflix For 3 More Weeks

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Published Jul 14, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT

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One of Gerard Butler’s most intense movies of the 2020s is leaving Netflix in three weeks.

Butler has made a name for himself over his 30+-year acting career, appearing in action-driven cinematic stories. This stretches back to when he had a minor role in 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies, which was one of his first film appearances. Some of Butler’s most well-known movies since then include 300, Machine Gun Preacher, Olympus Has Fallen, and Den of Thieves.

He’s kept this run going into the current decade with Greenland, Plane, and Kandahar, among others. He also portrayed Stoick the Vast last year in the live-action remake after previously voicing the same character in all the original animated How to Train Your Dragon movies. There’s also the action-thriller from Butler’s filmography that was released in 2021 and has been described as “John Carpenter meets The A-Team.”

The Joe Carnahan-directed Copshop is set to leave Netflix on Sunday, August 9. This follows six months after the movie was added to the streaming platform, and arrives nearly a month before it celebrates its fifth anniversary. It’s unclear at this time which service will become its new streaming home, if any. With action similar to Carpenter's 1976 movie Assault on Precinct 13 and The A-Team TV series that ran from 1983 to 1987, Copshop isn’t lacking in pulse-pounding thrills for movie fans looking for that kind of entertainment.

The movie stars Butler as assassin Bob Viddick alongside Frank Grillo as con artist Teddy Murretto, and Alexis Louder as rookie police officer Val Young. These three cross paths in the small town where Young works, and it’s soon revealed that Muretto has been working for the FBI, resulting in the mob sending Viddick to kill him. Other Copshop cast members include Toby Huss, Chad Coleman, Ryan O’Nan, and Jose Pablo Cantillo. Carnahan also wrote the script with Kurt McLeod.

Released on September 17, 2021, the same day as The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Cry Macho, Copshop earned a largely positive critical reception from professional reviewers and audiences alike. It has an 83% score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 74% Popcornmeter rating. ScreenRant’s review of Copshop gave it a mixed score of five out of 10 stars, saying that the movie “won't be for everyone, but those looking for some old-fashioned gun-slinging hijinks will get some enjoyment out of it.”

Commercially, Copshop ended up disappointing at the box office, making only $6.8 million off a reported $43.5 million budget. Nevertheless, it remains one of Carnahan’s more well-received movies, alongside The Grey, Bad Boys for Life, and Netflix’s The Rip. Along with their on-camera work, Carnhan, Butler, and Grillo were among Copshop's producers.

Looking ahead for Butler, following the release of Greenland 2: Migration in January, he’ll next be seen reprising Stoick in June 2027's How to Train Your Dragon 2. He’ll be joined by Cate Blanchett, following in Butler’s footsteps by reprising her role of Valka, Stoick’s wife, in the live-action adaptation of the 2014 animated sequel. Butler is also starring alongside Hayley Atwell and Omari Hardwick in the action thriller Empire City, which finished filming in February, but doesn’t have a release date yet.