The Expendables
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Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road, and a loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen.When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr.
- Director
- Sylvester Stallone
- Worldwide
- $274M
Who's in it
Cast
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Story overview
What It's About
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Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road, and a loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee visit the remote locale to scout out their opposition and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Expendables returned 3.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $80M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $274M
- Release date
- Aug 7, 2010
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Country
- Bulgaria, Germany
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