But then they came Charlize Theron and The Old Guard to leave the store blank.
The old guard would probably have lost his No. 1 position to Fatal Affair, but it marks the seventh consecutive day (and the film has only been on Netflix for seven days) where the old guard sits comfortably in one of the two most sensible positions. . It’s something only a few videos have done on Netflix (we’ll get back to it later).
And it doesn’t look like it’s going to replace it any time soon. While exciting new videos will hit Netflix this weekend, such as Father Soldier Son, Funan and The Notebook, it’s hard for any of those videos to be hard enough to take down the $70 million action monster starring one of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
Therefore, Theron and The Old Guard will likely spend another 3 days at most this weekend, allowing the action movie to approach the highest number of numbers in July (you can learn more about Netflix’s scoring formula. here). Currently, Desperados controls the month with 108 problems, but The Old Guard is stepping on his heels with 69 problems, which is just one point in the maximum number of problems they can have after just seven days on Netflix.
Here’s the existing monthly video rating on Netflix:
The old guard was quite at a disadvantage on the 3rd of the month. But the film Theron is just one point away from accumulating the maximum numbers that a movie can in all likelihood gain in seven days. And if this type of domination continues throughout the weekend, then the movie will be closer to a hundred numbers until Monday and will be at the sensible maximum 3 of the monthly ranking.
Not only that, however, if The Old Guard can claim No. 1 or No. 2 position every 3 days this weekend (and, again, you’re probably watching the movies added to Netflix), then the film Theron will be only the fourth. to hit a two-digit series in the two most sensitive positions. The only other successful films are Mark Wahlberg’s police film Spenser Confidential (which retained one of two most sensitive locations for 20 consecutive weeks), 365 days (18 consecutive days), The Angry Birds Movie 2 (15 consecutive days) and The Miss Wrongy (12 consecutive days).
Not only that, but with nearly a hundred points, The Old Guard would enter the 20 most sensitive videos of the Top 10 era (the feature created on Netflix in late February). Achieving this in just ten days would be a remarkable achievement.
Then we’ll see what the weekend holds. But for now, it turns out there’s no ending in sight for Theron and The Old Guard.
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I host a podcast called Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West. I run the Colossus Movie Club, where I make movie recommendations every week. I have covered several film festivals besides Toronto and Sundance.