‘Red Notice’ Seizes Biggest Netflix Movie Opening Weekend Ever;

In the wake of redefining the measurement of binge-watching on streaming, Netflix’s new top 10 film chart for the week of Nov. 8-14 lists Rawson Marshall Thurber’s $200M action feature Red Notice as the No. 1 film for the period with 148.7M hours watched since Nov. 12; easily the most-watched movie ever on Netflix for a pic in its first weekend. Samba TV clocked 4.2M U.S. households who tuned into the Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds movie for at least five minutes, more than any Disney+ movie to date and HBO Max theatrical titles in their respective weekend debuts. Also debuting in the top 10 movies for the week on Netflix is their $15M+ Sundance acquisition Passing starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga which ranked No. 8 with 7.49M hours. The Nicolas Cage action movie 211 also pushed its way onto the list with a first week of 7.9M hours watched. Red Notice was panned by critics at 35% Rotten, worse than Johnson’s previous collaboration with Thurber, Skyscraper at 48% Rotten which was a box office misfire at least stateside in 2018 with just over $68M, however with better overseas prospects with $304.8M WW. Netflix awards bait titles Passing and The Harder They Fall are well reviewed respectively at 91% certified fresh and 87% certified fresh.