Yahoo Lifestyle ‘Back In Action’ Debuts As Netflix’s Most-Watched Weekly Title; ‘XO, Kitty’ Returns In Second Place Among TV
Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz were this week’s big winners on Netflix, as their new film Back in Action was the most-watched title from January 13 to 19 with a whopping 46.8M views.
The spy flick knocked Secret Life of Pets 2 from the top spot on the English films list, but both that animated film and its predecessor rounded out the top three.
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According to Netflix, Back in Action had the biggest premiere weekend for an English-language movie since The Adam Project. Speaking of, that sci-fi thriller, which was previously No. 3 on the English most popular films list, has been overtaken by another Netflix hit, Carry-On.
The airport thriller is still flying high after six weeks with another 3.6M views. While that may not seem like a lot, it was enough to bump both Bird Box and The Adam Project down a peg on the most popular list.
Carry-On now has 160.1M views and sits at No. 3 on the most popular list. It has about 10M views to overcome its next hurdle, Don’t Look Up, which is absolutely possible since the film is only about halfway through its premiere window.
On the TV side of things, American Primeval took the top spot with 14.3M views, marking Eric Newman’s sixth big hit at Netflix. More on that here.
Season 2 of XO, Kitty eked out a close second place with 14.2M views in the first few days post-January 16 release. The first season also made a Top 10 appearance at No. 6 with 3.1M views.
Down from first last week, Missing You managed to say in the top three with another 5.6M views, while WWE’s Monday Night Raw continues to perform fairly steadily for the streamer with last week’s episode generating 3.7M views. Also, it seems like audiences are already looking forward to The Night Agent Season 2, considering the first season appeared in the top 10 this week at No. 7 with 2.4M views.
We can’t forget about Squid Game, which generated another 13.2M views on Season 2, marking its fourth consecutive week atop the Non-English TV list. So far, it’s still sitting at No. 2 on the most popular list with about 100M views to go before it would overtake Season 1. It remains to be seen if that’ll be possible, though there are 65 days left in the premiere window for it to do so.
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