Glass onion: The mystery of cutleryRian Johnson’s film renewed the conversation about the coexistence of cinemas and streaming services, became Netflix’s 6th filmorder biggest movie debut.
Onion streamed 82.1 million hours in the first three days as of December 23, the streaming service said on Tuesday. That puts it after Sandra Bullock unforgivable (85.86 million hours) and gray man, Ryan Gosling’s expensive film Chris Evans bowed with 88.55 million hours in July. Those movies have come in at Netflix’s 5th and 4th spots respectively since the streaming engine began releasing such records in 2021.
Rounding the top five is red notice (148.72 million hours), Don’t Look Up (111.03 million hours) and Project Adam (92.43 million hours).
Johnson promotes Onion to have a notable theatrical component and it became the first Netflix title to be released in theaters from all three major chains (AMC Cinemas, Cinemark Cinemas and Regal Cinemas). Netflix doesn’t report gross revenue, but distribution sources say hollywood reporter at the time it brought in about $13 million during the five-day holiday season, an impressive number for a movie showing in less than 700 theaters, even though the film left millions of dollars when it didn’t. released in traditional cinemas. It left theaters after a week.
firstly Pull out the knifereleased in theaters by Lionsgate in 2019, was a huge hit and grossed $41.4 million from 3,461 locations over the five-day Thanksgiving holiday.
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos made theater owners furrow when he downplayed the movie’s theatrical factor shortly after announcing the plans.
“There are all kinds of arguments all the time, back and forth. But internally there’s no question that we make movies for our members, and we really want them to watch them on Netflix,” Sarandos said on an October 18 earnings call. people watch movies at home.”
Johnson has talked about wishing the film would return to theaters, a wish that did not come true. The filmmaker said in early December: “We can put the film in any theater at any time, I’m pushing… I want more people to have the opportunity to see the film.”
As part of its year-end recap released on Tuesday, Netflix has revealed its most-watched movies, based on 28-day viewing frames, are: gray man, Project Adam, Purple Heart, Hustle and Tinder Scammers — among English titles. The top five non-English films are Prank, All is quiet on the Western front, black crab, Through My Window and Take it down.
