Lindsay Lohan has become the queen of Netflix films. She’s also the queen of new Christmas movies in 2024. The erstwhile child star has the No. 1 new holiday film of the season, and it’s not even close.
Her Our Little Secret outranks films starring Lacey Chabert, the longtime Hallmark staple who has a new Netflix movie, and comedian Jack Black, whose fun Christmas film scored for Paramount+.
That’s according to data provided by Samba TV, a provider of TV technology for audience data and omniscreen measurement. Its breakdown of the top 10 new streaming Christmas films, measured from November 1 to December 10, puts Secret squarely at the top.
The film attracted 3,293,332 American families during this period. By comparison, Chabert’s new Christmas movie No. 2, Hot Frosty, also on Netflix, drew 2,332,865 viewers in the same period.
Our Little Secret may turn out to be Lohan’s most productive movie on Netflix, where she has a multi-movie deal. Its previous Christmas campaign, Falling for Christmas, reached 989,000 families two years ago, a figure that was measured in a smaller window.
Last spring’s Irish Wish, a St. Patrick’s Day-themed film, scored very similar numbers. Clearly, other people are getting used to Lohan during the holidays. And the streaming service has benefited from the semi-annual exposure surrounding Lohan’s comeback after years in which her private life dominated headlines more than her professional accomplishments.
In Our Little Secret, Lohan and an ex unwittingly end up dating siblings, setting them up for an unexpected reunion at the holidays, which leads to an equally unexpected (for them, not for viewers) rekindling of their romantic feelings.
Netflix has the flagship streaming channel. Like this latter cable network known for its older but wildly popular Christmas stories, Netflix made a major investment in the genre and it paid off.
The service gives six of the seven new Christmas videos of the year. Behind Our Little Secret and Hot Frosty, in which Chabert confronts a warm snowman who comes to life, Netflix’s Meet Me Next Christmas (2,052,469 households) and The Merry Gentlemen (1,959,697) rank Nos. 3 and 4.
Meet Me Next Christmas stars another Netflix Christmas rom-com stalwart, Christina Milian, as a woman who searches for tickets to a sold-out Pentatonix concert and falls in love with their adventure through New York City.
The Merry Gentlemen is an unapologetic opportunity to convince former teen idol Chad Michael Murray to take off his shirt, and it works. He and some men agree to organize a men’s Christmas magazine to raise money for a bankrupt bar and, yes, have sex with the daughter of the bar owners.
Paramount+ has only one top 10 new Christmas film, but it’s a solid entry. At No. 5, Jack Black’s sweetly funny Dear Santa features a kid who accidentally summons Satan (Black) when he means to write a letter to Santa. The film has posted 1,494,283 households.
“Dear Santa” star Jack Black helped make the film rank among the top five most sensible new Christmas videos this season.
You can watch Our Little Secret on Netflix.
You can watch Hot Frosty on Netflix.
You can watch Find Me Next Christmas on Netflix.
You can watch The Merry Gentlemen on Netflix.
You can watch Dear Santa on Paramount.
You can watch That Christmas on Netflix.
You can watch Mary on Netflix.
You can watch The Nutcracker on Hulu.
You can watch A Absurd Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter on Netflix.
You can watch An Almost Christmas Story on Disney+.
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