There’s a New Most-Watched Movie on Netflix

On this week’s battle of Netflix film stars there may be one clear winner: Kevin Hart beat Chris Hemsworth and Adam Sandler.

That’s as a result of Hart’s new Netflix movie, The Man From Toronto, topped the streaming service’s checklist of most-watched films across the globe. Netflix customers watched over 53 million hours of The Man From Toronto final week. The motion comedy additionally stars Woody Harrelson and was directed by The Hitman’s Bodyguard’s Patrick Hughes.

The Man From Toronto topped each Hemsworth’s current sci-fi thriller Spiderhead, in addition to Sandler’s new sports activities drama Hustle. Each films have been on the service for a pair weeks, whereas The Man From Toronto was model new on Netflix this week. (Curiously, Spiderhead logged extra hours seen this week than final, which suggests there may be some constructive phrase of mouth on that film.)

Right here’s Netflix’s world prime ten for the week:

The Man From Toronto ranked amongst the highest 10 movies on Netflix in 92 international locations across the globe, together with such far-flung locations as Luxembourg, Malta, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Australia. Regardless of logging fewer complete hours, Spiderhead was truly well-liked in extra international locations final week; it was within the prime 10 in 93 completely different territories. (It was #1 in Estonia! Estonia loves Spiderhead!) In the meantime, Hustle landed on the charts in 85 international locations. In actual fact, it’s nonetheless the primary film on Netflix in Guatemala. Clearly you must by no means underestimate Adam Sandler’s Guatemalan fanbase.

For those who missed it, right here’s the trailer for The Man From Toronto, which was initially produced by Sony. They bought the title to Netflix again in April.

All advised, Netflix has seven authentic films (or acquisitions) of their world prime ten this week. After some time the place numerous random older films have been big hits on Netflix, it looks as if the service’s present batch of titles are faring a bit of higher with their prospects.