Enola Holmes
NetflixSummer is a glorious time for movie lovers. All of Hollywood’s biggest studios and celebrities gear up for a slate of big-budget blockbuster affairs that promise lots of action and high drama between the months of June and September. And this year promised quite the lineup: Tenet, Wonder Woman, Candyman, The King’s Man, The New Mutants—the list goes on.
But, as we all know, none of those movies were meant to be. COVID-19 closed down pretty much every single movie theater this past summer, leaving the release dates for most of those movies up in the air. Instead, the public retreated to their couches for any and all movie entertainment.
Which is where Netflix NFLX came in.
The summer season has officially come and gone. And without movie theaters to determine a “movie of the summer,” we instead needed to utilize the world’s most popular streaming platform to determine which movies had the best showings. Over the last three months, new-release movies would drop on Netflix each Friday and battle each other for the #1 spot over the weekend—a virtual substitute for the box office, if you will.
So which movies had the best opening weekend showings? While last year movies like The Lion King, Toy Story 4 and John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum were the top summer hits, this past summer saw a much different-looking set of movies control the conversation.
Luckily, Reelgood was keeping track the entire time. While I ranked movies according to their Top 10 placements throughout the summer, Reelgood—a service that allows you to track which movies are playing on which streaming platforms—had a different method for determining which movies had the best “opening weekends” this past summer. In an effort to see which original movies were received with more enthusiasm than others, the Reelgood team looked at each of the movies released this summer on Netflix and tracked their performances and shares of streams among over 2 million Reelgood users in the U.S.
The results weren’t too far off from my Top 10 results (albeit a few minor differences). Turns out, The Old Guard had the best opening weekend amongst Reelgood users, as the movie accounted for 6.2% of user traffic during its opening weekend from July 10-12.
Not far behind was Rising Phoenix, followed by Enola Holmes and Project Power. Here’s a graph that lays out the rankings and how well each movie performed on its respective opening weekend:
The ten best opening weekends this past summer on Netflix, according to Reelgood.
ReelgoodWhile some of these movies didn’t make my summer rankings because they premiered so late in the season, this Reelgood list is perhaps a more accurate picture of which movies made up the “2020 summer movie slate.”
The Link LonkOctober 05, 2020 at 11:00PM
https://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbean/2020/10/05/forget-the-box-office-here-were-the-10-best-digital-opening-weekends-this-past-summer-on-netflix/
Forget The Box Office—Here Were The 10 Best (Digital) Opening Weekends This Past Summer On Netflix - Forbes
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