Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Turns into Sixth-Greatest Film Debut for Netflix, With 82.1 Million Hours

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, director Rian Johnson’s newest whodunnit, is now Netflix’s sixth-biggest film debut, when it comes to watch time. The streamer rankings for the interval December 19–25 noticed the Daniel Craig-led thriller follow-up topping the charts for an English-language movie, recording 82.1 million hours watched throughout its debut week. Glass Onion dropped December 23 on the platform, which implies its numbers have been calculated merely over a three-day interval. The second Knives Out film underwent a restricted theatrical launch in choose international locations, a month prior.

These numbers put Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery proper behind the Sandra Bullock-led The Unforgivable, which recorded 85.86 million seen hours upon debut. As per Netflix, the present record-holder within the English-language class is Red Notice, whose key ingredient was the lead lineup of Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds. The movie opened with 148.70 hours of recorded viewing time upon launch. The three positions between them are held by director Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up (111.03 million hours), Reynolds-led The Adam Project (92.43 million hours), and the very expensive Russo brothers function The Gray Man (88.55 million hours).

The Knives Out sequel made its technique to the Top 10 of all 93 international locations Netflix tracks. Glass Onion was ranked #1 in 67 international locations — India isn’t certainly one of them. It helps that the Craig-led film was launched in the course of the Christmas season, which ensured lots of people have been residence in the course of the winter holidays, particularly within the Global North. Following shut behind this previous week is the catastrophe documentary The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari with 25.1 million seen hours, whereas Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio received knocked down to 3rd place, accumulating 19.6 million hours in view time. The latter held first place in the course of the final recorded week.

The Knives Out franchise marked a giant funding for Netflix final yr, with the studio buying the rights to 2 sequels — together with Glass Onion and Knives Out 3 — for a reported $450 million (about Rs. 3,730 crore). Craig reprised the function of detective Benoit Blanc within the sequel, heading to Greece this time, the place tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) is internet hosting a murder-mystery occasion at his lavish residence. Invited to the annual tropical getaway are the latter’s nearest and dearest pals, who flip into suspects when an precise killing happens. The movie enlists an ensemble solid together with Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Kate Hudson, Jessica Henwick, Dave Bautista, and Madelyn Cline.

As for the English-language TV rankings, the Jenna Ortega-led Wednesday maintains rank one since its launch final month, throughout which it surpassed Stranger Things 4’s document for most watch time in a debut week. The interval December 19–25 sees the Lily Collins-led Emily in Paris season 3 in second place with 117.6 million hours in view time, adopted by the Noah Centineo-starrer The Recruit with 95.5 million hours on Netflix.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is now streaming on Netflix.