Netflix‘s interest in creating original productions is nothing new or exclusive to them. Other platforms also seek the added value offered by having content that can only be seen through their service. However, what is new is that they share the host data they have had. Netflix did it now for the first time with their original movies .
Netflix Original Movies Most Viewed
Netflix, like other streaming platforms, is betting very heavily on all of this original content. Not only in series themes, where we have seen that they went hard for a long time when producing titles like Strangers Things or The Witcher, also films that in some cases attracted a lot of attention by budget and actors.
Now, for the first time, the platform shares data regarding the success that some of these premieres have had during the first four weeks since their debut on the platform. So they make a TOP 10 where the most viewed is Extraction .
This movie, starring Chris Hemsworth, tells the story of a hired mercenary who takes on the job of rescuing the son of a gangster kidnapped by another gangster. An action movie with its charm if the genre appeals to you. Then, the rest of the top 10 is made up of movies of different genres. Here are the ten most viewed with the audience data ordered by millions of viewers:
- Extraction (Extracction), with 99 million
- Blind (Bird Box), 89 million
- Spenser Confidential (Spenser Confidential), $ 85 million
- Squad 6 (6 Undergound), 83 million
- Murder Mystery, $ 83 million
- The Irishman, 64 million
- Triple Frontier (Trile Frontier), 63 million
- The Other Missy (The Wrong Missy), 59 million
- El hoyo (The Platform), 56 million
- The perfect date (The Perfect Date), 55 million
With all the fuss it generated if there is a film that surprises for not having achieved more viewings and placing itself higher in the classification it is The Irishman. Although it is also true that for many it was a film too dense and slow.
This top is added to the own that can be seen when accessing the platform and that serves to show the content that is being played the most , which is always another way of offering content that you could like beyond the recommendations of its algorithm.
Netflix and its new original content strategy
However, the interesting thing is that this could slightly mark the platform’s strategy for the coming months. If we take into account the latest events and the situation that is still living because of the COVID-19, everything seems to revolve around a model where a powerful original production is released every two weeks.
For example, on July 10 we could see how the Old Guard was released and already this week we met what will be his next great movie: Project Power . It will tell the story of a city where pills are sold that give super powers to those who take it. Of course, they will not know which until they have.
Starring Jamie Fox, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dominique Fishback, although you may be struck by Casey Neistat’s appearance in the trailer, the film will be released on August 14. So, in a few weeks we will see if Netflix updates that list with the TOP 10 of most viewed original movies within its service.
Of course, an important clarification. The Netflix Original brand is also used when they acquire the distribution license exclusively for certain territories. Hence, for example, there may be content that has previously been broadcast on other platforms.
