Months ago, Maryam was reporting on a supermoon, but the broadcaster was unable to provide images.
That was no problem for Maryam, who simply formed her hands into a circular shape to simulate what it could look like.Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver is the most popular film on Netflix this week, with more than 21 million views, according to the streaming giant.
Despite mixed reviews from reviewers, the sequel, as well as the first Rebel Moon film in the series, A Child of Fire, which debuted in December, did not appear to make a significant impact on audiences.
Zack Snyder’s Star Wars-inspired space opera concerns Kora (Sofia Boutella), a former Imperium soldier living in a quiet village on the edge of a faraway moon. The community is threatened by a despotic governing force, from whom Kora hides.
According to Netflix’s Tudum, Rebel Moon 2 is comfortably ahead of this week’s global top ten after less than a week on the streaming platform, with 21,400,000 views worldwide.
This is rather simple to extrapolate from 44.2 million hours of viewing of the film, which runs for two hours and four minutes.
Even more impressively, the data was obtained over the week of April 15 to April 21.
Given that The Scargiver was released last Friday, April 19, it shot straight to the top and over 20m views on three days of release alone.
Snyder also previously revealed that Netflix’s calculations are often based on the assumption that each hour viewed accounts for two people watching together, so they may argue that 43m people have actually watched the sci-fi epic.
In second place is animated movie Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp, on an impressive 18,800,000 views, while other films on the Netflix streaming chart include crime documentary What Jennifer Did, 2019 thriller Anna with Sasha Luss, Cillian Murphy and Luke Evans, Hotel Transylvania and Millie Bobby Brown’s dragon film Damsel.
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire is also in fifth, no doubt boosted by the sequel’s release, with a further 5.5m views.
Snyder’s film has received roughly 27 million views in only six days on the platform.
In a recent interview, Snyder recognised his polarising image as a director and the heated debates his films, which include 300, Sucker Punch, and Justice League, appear to stir.
‘The reactions to my movies tend to really be these big… overreactions,’ he commented.
‘We were talking about even just [with] Rebel Moon – Part One. I’m like, it’s not that controversial of a movie,’ he adds of the criticism that filled column inches and social media forums last year.
‘From a story standpoint, there’s plenty more to do,’ he has also shared, hinting that this could stretch beyond to a Rebel Moon 4, and maybe even further.
‘We were talking about if you made another Rebel Moon movie, would the audience be like, “Well, don’t we get two? Because I think we always – it seems like we always should get two of these movies? Whenever you make a movie it should be two, because, otherwise, what, we’re gonna make one? You’re going back to one? That’s weird.” So, these are the kinds of things we’re talking about!’
Rebel Moon Part One and Two are both streaming on Netflix now.
