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Netflix Details Most Popular Films & TV Shows In The Streamer’s History

September 28, 2021 10:28 am

Netflix, over the course of its history, has been incredibly secretive when it comes to statistics. This has caught the film and TV industry off guard, as people grew accustomed to box office and ratings data ...

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Netflix’s 10 Most Popular Films Of All Time List Is Sad And Frustrating

Charles Barfield

July 16, 2020 12:24 pm

News

For months, I’ve written about how Netflix and its streaming brethren are notoriously secretive about viewership numbers when it comes to original films and series. In the past, Netflix has been the biggest of...

‘The Woman In The Window’ Score By Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross Scrapped

Rafael Motamayor

December 25, 2019 9:03 am

News

If “Watchmen” or “The Social Network” has taught us anything is that your movie or TV show could always improve with a little music from the Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and his creative partner Atticu...

FX Boss Tears Apart Netflix’s Recent Ratings Data & Says The Stats Are “Not Remotely Accurate”

Charles Barfield

February 4, 2019 3:19 pm

News, Television

FX CEO John Landgraf is one of the more outspoken TV execs out there. He’s never been shy with offering his opinion on the state of the TV marketplace, and honestly, his “takes” are pretty spot-on, most of the ...

Netflix Reveals Ridiculously High Viewership Totals For ‘Bird Box’ & ‘Sex Education’

Charles Barfield

January 18, 2019 11:25 am

News, Television

Netflix sure does like to play coy about numbers. But lately, when it serves the company’s best interests, the streaming service will throw out some viewing totals to show how popular some content is. This was ...

‘Bird Box’ Was Second Only To ‘Stranger Things 2’ In Biggest First-Week Netflix Viewership

Charles Barfield

January 8, 2019 11:15 am

News

As we’ve said a million times at this point, Netflix just doesn't like revealing viewership numbers on its content. For a variety of reasons, the streaming service finds it beneficial to only report numbers whe...

Netflix Pleads With Fans Attempting The ‘Bird Box’ Challenge: “Please Do Not Hurt Yourselves”

Charles Barfield

January 2, 2019 3:15 pm

News

No one on Earth could have ever guessed that “Bird Box,” the Sandra Bullock thriller directed by Susanne Bier would be the most memed film of the final weeks of 2018. What seemed, from the trailers, to be a fai...

‘Bird Box’: Netflix Says The Sandra Bullock Horror/Thriller Is Their Biggest First Week Release With 45 Million Viewers

Rodrigo Perez

December 29, 2018 12:54 pm

News

Netflix isn’t very transparent when it comes to the numbers and viewership side of their business, and it’s hard to blame them. Once movie studios let the cat out of the bag in the 1980s and started reporting b...

‘Bird Box’ Is A Harmless B-Movie That Wastes Its Great Premise [Review]

Jonathan Christian

December 27, 2018 11:08 am

Features, Reviews

Parenthood should scare any logical human being. Think about it. For women, you’re stuck with a little human growing inside of you that survives based off your nutrient intake for nine months. Then, as a dude, ...

‘Bird Box’ Extended Sneak Peek: 5-Minute Video Is Our Best Look Yet At Sandra Bullock’s Latest Thriller

Charles Barfield

December 20, 2018 1:53 pm

News, Trailers

There are two types of film fans when it comes to sneak peeks and trailers. You have the cinephile that wants to enter a film without knowing anything (or as little as possible), able to judge the film with no ...

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