One of Netflix’s last original movie releases of 2024 is on track to become one of its biggest films for the year and for the app as a whole. Starring Taron Egerton, Jason Bateman, and Sofia Carson, Carry-On is a Netflix original thriller following a young TSA officer (Egerton) who is blackmailed by a mysterious stranger (Bateman) to smuggle a dangerous package on a Christmas Eve flight.
According to Netflix’s internal rankings, the film has made huge gains over its first ten days of release. From its premiere date on Dec. 13 through Dec. 22, the film has recorded 97.1 million views worldwide (measured by total viewing hours divided by its two-hour running time). Additionally, the film has been ranked first on Netflix’s charts for English-language movies in its first two weeks of release.
With 97.1 million viewers over 10 days, Carry-On is set to break into Netflix’s top 10 English-language original movies in the next few weeks. With 136.3 million views, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is currently the 10th place spot holder. Carry-On is already more than 70 percent of the way to that total, so it will likely overtake the number 10 spot. Netflix’s all-time top 10 lists include the view counts over a movie or series’ first 91 days of release.
Netflix original films tend to show a considerable decline in viewership in the third week. Damsel, the fantasy film starring Millie Bobby Brown, is the only 2024 release currently on the all-time top 10 list. It went from 50.8 million views in its second week to 19.5 in its third week, a drop of about 62 percent.
To date, Netflix’s top-performing original movie is Red Notice, the action comedy starring Ryan Reynolds, Dwayne Johnson, and Gal Gadot, with 230.9 million views over 91 days.
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