Netflix has revealed the top 10 biggest opening months for their original movies with Extraction and Bird Box leading the way.
Bloomberg released the list of the top 10 movies that received the most views over their first four weeks. The Bloomberg article doesn’t say, but it’s assumed these are worldwide numbers as Netflix has 182.8 million subscribers worldwide, including 69.9 million in the USA as of April 2020, according to The New York Times.
It’s also worth mentioning that a view for Netflix is only two minutes because that’s “long enough to indicate the choice was intentional.”
Here are Netflix’s Top 10 biggest debuts for their original movies:
- 1. Extraction – 99 million
- 2. Bird Box – 89 million
- 3. Spenser Confidential – 85 million
- 4. 6 Underground – 83 million
- 5. Murder Mystery – 73 million
- 6. The Irishman – 64 million
- 7. Triple Frontier – 63 million
- 8. The Wrong Missy – 59 million
- 9. The Platform – 56 million
- 10. The Perfect Date – 48 million
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Every movie on the list was released in the past two years. The Sandra Bullock thriller Bird Box is the oldest movie having launched in December 2018 while the David Spade comedy, The Wrong Missy, is the most recent movie on the list, having debuted in May 2020. This is probably due to Netflix’s consistent growth over the years, including a recent coronavirus boom in subscribers. That could be why four of the movies on this list were released on Netflix in just the past few months.
Scott Stuber, the head of Netflix’s original film division, said he wants big movies to debut every couple of weeks.
“We want an impactful movie every two weeks,” Stuber said to Bloomberg. “For one person, that’s Extraction. For another, it’s The Wrong Missy.”
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Extraction has a sequel on the way with Joe Russo currently writing the script. Meanwhile, Bird Box author Josh Malerman is currently promoting his sequel novel which will hit stores this month. Malerman recently said a movie sequel is also in the works. The Adam Sandler-Jennifer Aniston comedy, Murder Mystery, also has a sequel in the works.
Click here for a list of everything coming to Netflix in July. One of those movies, The Old Guard, has been the number one movie on Netflix in the USA since its debut Friday. In our The Old Guard review, we said the movie “rises above its generic trappings thanks to its cool cast & world-building.”
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Petey Oneto is a freelance writer for IGN who saw The Irishman in an overpriced, overheated, crowded, talkative movie theater and really wishes he just waited for Netflix instead.
Source: IGN.com Netflix Reveals Their Top 10 Biggest Movie Openings