Road House reboot director Doug Liman claims he and star Jake Gyllenhaal “didn’t get paid a dime” despite more than 50 million people watching the film over its first two weekends.

Road House reboot director Doug Liman is once again attacking Amazon, alleging that he and star Jake Gyllenhaal have not been properly compensated.

Liman, 59, wrote a scathing open letter in January, claiming he was boycotting the film’s world premiere at SXSW, though he ultimately attended.

He joined the project before Amazon bought MGM, stating that he intended to make a film that would be released in theaters.

However, another report claimed that Liman, Gyllenhaal and producer Joel Silver were given a clear choice: take a $60 million budget and get a theatrical release or take an $85 million budget and get a streaming-only release.

Liman and the producers chose the latter, but now, after more than 50 million people watched the remake in its first two weeks, the director said in a new interview with IndieWire that neither he nor Gyllenhaal “didn’t get a dime” from the streaming revenue, in a new interview with IndieWiremy.

“My problem with Road House is that we made the movie for MGM to be in theaters, everyone got paid as if it was going to be in theaters, and then Amazon blamed us and no one got compensated,” Liman said.

“Forget the effect this had on the industry: 50 million people saw Road House. I didn’t get a cent, Jake Gyllenhaal didn’t get a cent, (producer) Joel Silver didn’t get a cent. That’s wrong,” he added.

The filmmaker also insisted: “I have no problem with streaming. We need streaming movies because we need writers to go to work, directors to go to work, actors to go to work and not every movie should be shown in a movie theater.”

“I’m a big proponent of TV series, streaming movies, movies in theaters, we should have it all,” he added.

Since Liman, Gyllenhaal and Silver likely negotiated their deals with MGM before Amazon bought them, which may have included final compensation based on theatrical revenue.

When Amazon took over and filmmakers and producers agreed to the streaming-only deal for a larger production budget, those back-end compensation figures, if they existed in their deals at all, apparently did not carry over into any back-end streaming revenue, which is apparently Liman’s big problem.

Liman was promoting his new film The Instigators, which will have a limited theatrical release on August 2 before debuting on Apple TV Plus on August 9.

She revealed that her experience with Apple was very different and that they were more transparent about compensation.

“In Apple’s case, from the beginning, we said we were doing this for streaming, our contracts compensated for streaming, we all get compensated for streaming – there’s something called streaming buyout – so Apple has been transparent from the beginning,” Liman said.

He also praised The Instigators producers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, through their company Artists Equity.

“They’re coming from a place that I’m coming from, which is wanting to make movies that aren’t empty calories. Because you can make big, fun action movies that you’ll forget about five minutes later and then you can make big, fun action movies that stick with you and you want to go back and watch them or think about them and find something,” he said.

“Matt and Ben at Artists Equity have the same commitment. They want to make commercial, fun, blockbuster movies, but also movies that resonate with audiences and stick in their memories,” he said.