Say Goodbye To Gerard Butler's 109-Minute Disaster Movie As It Leaves Streaming This Month

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There are only a few weeks to go until Gerard Butler’s 109-minute-long disaster movie leaves streaming.

Looking over Butler’s lineup of movies, the actor knows his way around cinematic stories packed with action and thrills. One of his first credits was the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies, and he achieved wide recognition in the United States with 300. In more recent years, Butler has entertained audiences on this front with the likes of Plane, Kandahar, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, and the live-action How to Train Your Dragon.

Most of those movies see Butler’s characters dealing with human antagonists, but there are also a few where he goes up against the forces of nature. 2020’s Greenland saw him playing a father trying to ensure his family’s survival ahead of a massive comet striking Earth, and this year’s Greenland 2: Migration explored the aftermath of this apocalyptic event. Prior to his Greenland outings, Butler starred in a different kind of disaster movie called Geostorm, but it won’t be available to stream for free much longer.

After being added to Tubi on August 1, Geostorm is already set to leave the platform at the end of the month. After that, the 2017 movie will only be accessible online by purchasing or renting it on platforms like Apple TV, Prime Video, and YouTube. Other movies departing Tubi in August include Jim Carrey’s 2000 cult classic Me, Myself, & Irene, the Twilight movies, the Lethal Weapon movies, and the Friday movies, among many others.

Last year, Geostorm proved to be a big hit on Netflix, ranking No. 4 on the platform’s global chart of the Top 10 English-language movies for the week of March 31 through April 6. Then in September, Geostorm shifted to HBO Max, where it experienced similar worldwide success. Its availability on the latter service was fitting considering the movie was originally released by Warner Bros. Pictures, but in August 2026, Tubi has Geostorm all to itself.

Geostorm stars Butler as Jake Lawson, the chief architect of the “Dutch Boy” system of climate-controlling satellites. Despite being removed from the project, Jake is sent to the International Climate Space Station to investigate the malfunctioning satellites, which leads to the creation of a “geostorm” capable of destroying Earth. Butler’s co-stars include Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ed Harris, and Andy Garcia. Dean Devlin directed Geostorm, as well as wrote the script with Paul Guyot, and produced alongside David Ellison and Dana Goldberg.

Despite being such a streaming powerhouse in 2025, this Butler-led movie is far from a critical darling. Geostorm was bombarded with negative reviews ahead of its release on October 20, 2017, with the movie ranking on Rotten Tomatoes with an 18% Tomatometer and 35% Popcornmeter. It also failed to impress at the box office, making just $221.6 million worldwide off a reported budget in the $120-130 million range.

Following Geostorm’s departure from Tubi, Butler will next be seen reprising Stoick the Vast in the live-action How to Train Your Dragon 2, which arrives in theaters on June 11, 2027. He’s also starring with Hayley Atwell and Omari Hardwick in the action thriller Empire City, which doesn’t have a release date yet.