‘Glass Onion’ Is Already One Of Netflix’s Biggest Movies Ever

If you needed to know why Netflix was so prepared to fork over lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} for the rights to 2 Knives Out sequels, right here is your reply.

After simply 10 days on the streaming service, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery has already cracked the highest 10 listing of probably the most watched Netflix movies within the historical past of the corporate. Over the week between Christmas and New Year’s, Netflix subscribers watched a complete of 127 million hours of the movie — greater than triple the second-most-watched movie on the service, Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (41 million hours seen). And the third-most-watched movie final week was the unique Benoit Blanc thriller from author/director Rian Johnson, Knives Out.

Netflix’s different huge new launch final week, White Noise, was quantity 4 on the Netflix weekly prime ten listing, with 12.2 million hours seen. That’s barely a tenth of Glass Onion’s complete final week, however maybe that’s complete for an adaptation of a bleak novel about an airborne poisonous occasion? Here is the brand new most-watched movies in Netflix historical past listing:

Netflix measures the films on this listing by evaluating their first 28 days of launch on the service, which suggests Glass Onion nonetheless has one other 18 days of eligibility to rack up many extra hundreds of thousands of hours. Meaning it can doubtless wind up close to or perhaps even on the prime of this listing in a few weeks. In different phrases, they’re going to need Johnson engaged on the subsequent one in every of these Benoit Blanc films as quickly as humanly attainable.

Meanwhile, the most-watched present on Netflix final week was as soon as once more the primary season of Wednesday, which has now topped the listing of the most well-liked reveals on Netflix for six straight weeks.