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After redefining the standard of streaming media viewing spree, Netflix's top 10 new movie rankings for the week of November 8-14 will include Rawson Marshall Thurber's $200 million action movie "Red Notice" was listed as the first movie of the period, with a box office of 148.7 M hours watched since November 12; it easily became the most watched movie on Netflix in the first weekend.
We reported yesterday that Samba TV provided a clock for 4.2 million American families who watched movies by Dawn Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds for at least 5 minutes, more than any Disney+ movie and HBO to date. Max's dramas premiered on their respective weekends.
In the first weekend of Sony’s Jumanji: The Next Level on Netflix, there was also some Johnson spillover effect in the top 10 of Red Notice. It ranked 10th with 6.76 million hours of viewing time.
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Also in the top 10 is the anchor’s British comedy holiday movie "Santa Claus is Back", with a total duration of 13.78 million hours. This film, directed by Mick Davis and Philip Martinez, starring Elizabeth Hurley, John Chris and Kelsey Grammer, reunited around the four sisters in a Yorkshire mansion During the Christmas holidays, the misunderstanding between them revealed the long-buried secret of the family's disintegration, so many years ago.
In Netflix's top 10 movies this week, Sundance acquired Passing for more than $15 million, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, ranking 8th with 7.49 million hours. Nicholas Cage's action movie 211 also entered the list with 7.9 million viewing hours in the first week.
You have to give it to Netflix: as the Oscar season approaches, their top 10 ranking is another way to increase the popularity of their competitors. This is a good marketing tool, because the anchors will enter the featured award competition, and the content creators will talk about it. Netflix has an advantage over competitors because they are completely transparent about ratings data. Not only that, new streaming media such as HBO Max, Paramount+ and Peacock have a very young footprint around the world, and they don’t have the ratings that Netflix boasted of here. A comprehensive comparison of them will take several years. Jeymes Samuel and Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, Regina King, LaKeith Stanfield, etc., the second week of the Western film "The Harder Faller Fall" got a great boost here. Entering the holidays, Netflix will usher in a big wave of wealth, Lin-Manuel Miranda's ticking, ticking...Boom! , Adam McKay's all-star Jennifer Lawrence-Leonardo DiCaprio comedy "Don't Look Up" and Paul Sorrentino's "Hands of God". Earlier this year, the anchor made a plan to release a new movie every week.
Another interesting dynamic of the most watched movie on Netflix is its Teflon certification on Rotten Tomatoes. Although Rotten Tomatoes can increase the box office revenue of a movie by one-sixth, you won't lose any dollars when you watch the movie (or TV show) on Netflix. The Red Wanted Order was criticized by critics as 35% bad movies, which is worse than Johnson’s previous cooperation with Thurber. The skyscraper’s bad movie rate was 48%. At least in 2018, the box office in the United States lost more than 68 million U.S. dollars. But overseas prospects are better, with a global box office of 304.8 million US dollars. Netflix reward decoy titles Passing and The Harder They Fall received 91% fresh certification and 87% fresh certification, respectively.
Here is the latest chart of the highest-ranked English-language movies on Netflix:
Please note that Netflix counts all hours watched by the subscriber's account. Therefore, if a subscriber watches a two-hour movie three times, it is equivalent to 6 hours of viewing time for that particular title. The old method of timing the world’s TV households for watching the highest-rated series for two minutes or more; this indicator has been abandoned by streaming media to watch the new standard number of hours per week. Next week, the chart will reset the clock for each ranked title. The most watched movies (English and non-English) and TV series (English and non-English) of the week will be released by the anchor every Tuesday.
Regarding the cumulative historical ranking of the most viewed movies, Netflix will update the list as needed, but the basis will be the longest viewing time in the first 28 days of the movie. The red notifications are expected to be added to the list soon. Currently, Sandra Bullock's 2018 thriller "Bird Box" is still the most viewed Netflix English movie in 28 days, with 282 million hours of viewing time. This is the following list of all times:
Among the most popular non-English films on Netflix from November 8th to 14th, director Marco Tullio Giordana’s Italian crime thriller Yara topped the list with 17.95 hours of viewing time in the second week of the service. Yara followed a determined prosecutor who was bored with the case of a 13-year-old missing child and tried his best to find the truth.
The Brazilian film 7 Prisoners, which won the Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award at the Venice Film Festival, ranked second with 9.69 million hours of viewing time during the premiere week last week. Director Alexandre Moratto’s "7 Prisoners" tells the story of the 18-year-old Mateus who accepted a job at the garbage dump in Sao Paulo for his new boss, Luca. Stories of falling into a dangerous world of human trafficking.
Also breaking the above chart in the first week was the French documentary Lords of Scam from Guillaume Nicloux, which tracked the rise and fall of crooks who defrauded the EU carbon quota system and collected millions of dollars before attacking each other. There is also the Polish musical comedy "Fierce" from Anna Wieczur-Bluszcz, which tells the story of a talented young singer who became famous overnight in a popular talent show. However, her real goal is to win the love of the father of a jury member.
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