EXPENDABLES 3 - Barney augments his team with new blood for a personal battle: to take down Conrad Stonebanks the Expendables co-founder and notorious arms trader who is hell bent on wiping out Barney and every single one of his associates. The Expendables 3 (sometimes stylized as The Expendables III) is a 2014 American ensemble action film directed by Patrick Hughes and written by Creighton Rothenberger Katrin Benedikt and Sylvester Stallone. It is the third installment in The Expendables film series. The film features Sylvester Stallone Jason Statham Antonio Banderas Jet LI Wesley Snipes Dolph Lundgren Kelsey Grammer Randy Couture Terry Crews Kellan Lutz Ronda Rousey Glen Powell Victor Ortiz Robert Davi Mel Gibson Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The story follows the mercenary group known as The Expendables as they come into conflict with ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks (Gibson) the Expendables co-founder who is determined to destroy the team. Released on August 15 2014 it is the first film in the Expendables series not to be rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. It is instead rated PG-13. The film grossed $206.2 million in box offices sales. A fourth film The Expendables 4 is scheduled to be released in 2017.