March continues to be wild for Netflix

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Prime 10 charts. We’re solely ten days into the month, however 5 totally different movies high the checklist, together with a brand new one right now.

This movie? Jason Statham’s Revenge Film Parker. Launched in 2013, this motion thriller / thriller facilities on Statham’s character Parker, who’s betrayed by his crime gang. After his previous group leaves him for useless, he groups up with an unlikely ally (performed by Jennifer Lopez) with the intention to hijack the gang’s subsequent huge theft.

Parker additionally stars Michael Chiklis, Bobby Cannavale and Nick Nolte. The movie was directed by Taylor Hackford, who additionally directed (and obtained an Oscar nomination for) the 2004 movie Ray.

Statham’s movie has seen a sluggish rise within the charts. After the movie premiered in seventh place on March 4, 2021, Parker then moved to fifth place the following day; then second place yesterday; then first place right now.

Parker is now the fifth movie of the month of March to succeed in No. 1 in Netflix’s Prime 10. To date the opposite movies have been Bigfoot household (which, courting again to February, had a six-day run within the first place), Moxie, Sentinel and Coaching day.

In 2021, Parker is already the twentieth totally different movie to occupy the primary place. It is a main departure from 2020, when movies would constantly take high spot for a number of days at a time.

As I defined on this article, this variation might be because of the truth that Netflix has not but had plenty of main releases in 2021. Which suggests plenty of third-party motion pictures like Parker, coaching day and The following three days had room to dominate.

Actually, that is Jason Statham’s second movie in 2021 to land the No. 1 spot. The primary was Homefront, which was the perfect film on Netflix from January 22 to 25 earlier this yr.

Homefront spent a complete of 16 days within the Prime 10 of the charts and completed in fourth place for the month of January (I do know this from a Netflix Prime 10 factors system I created). Statham’s movie additionally ranks eighth hottest on Netflix in 2021 and thirty eighth all-time charts.