![]() ![]() ![]() Those properties, and many more lingering from a previous output deal, have been locked in the vault at Netflix’s competitor, Disney Plus. “The Incredibles 2” and “Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2,” both franchises from Disney, brought them eyeballs in 2019. If the list has any forecasting power, it might be that Netflix needs to up its feature animation game. Likewise, the scripted Ted Bundy story “Extremely Wicked,” starring Zac Efron and also from Berlinger, received a mixed 56% score from Rotten Tomatoes but left this year’s Sundance Film Festival a $9 million check from Netflix following a bidding war. Netflix acquired “Triple Frontier” for a reported $90 million after the film’s distribution deal fell through at Paramount, and faced wide criticism and doubt for overspending. If Netflix’s popularity metrics are to be taken at face value (many traditional media analysts do not do so), it would also justify some risky financial bets taken by the film group, led by Scott Stuber. Billboards in Los Angeles and airport terminals wherever an Oscar voter might wander are littered with ads for Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” and “The Two Popes,” but these lists suggest Netflix subscribers prefer Ryan Reynolds doing air stunts in a jet sponsored by Red Bull (which is indeed a plot point in “6 Underground”). Thematically, the film content skews more popcorn than prestige. 6) and the comic-based “The Umbrella Academy” (No. Only three series made the cut: “Stranger Things,” the Duffer brothers’ sci-fi thriller and the only series to break into the top five, as well as Henry Cavill’s “The Witcher” (No. Movies are notably dominant on the overall list, considering Netflix is a service built on bingeable episodic content. ![]() The documentary title that topped the year was Joe Berlinger’s “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.” On its heels was the visual feast “Our Planet,” the water cooler sensation “FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened” and the Coachella festival masterpiece “Homecoming: A Film by Beyonce.” 13 - but it’s the second most popular film release of 2019, and is ranked third on an overall list that includes series like “Stranger Things,” according to Netflix. The lists were generated by counting the total number of households to stream an individual title for at least two minutes, during the first 28 days of its release.įor titles that debuted on Netflix less than 28 days ago, the company used a projection model to determine where final viewership numbers are likely to land (as it has done in the past on earnings calls with investors).īay’s Ryan Reynolds action film “6 Underground,” for instance, only premiered on Dec. For the 2019 lists, “popularity” was not determined by the total number of viewers for a given piece of content, a Netflix spokesperson said. ![]()
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