There is nothing to say, if the acclaimed Danish director Susanne Bier cheering a lot here up to the new year.
Her new movie ‘Bird Box’ has set a remarkable record. The film that has Sandra Bullock in the lead role, is the most watched premiere on Netflix ever.
In the first seven days, where the film has been available, has more than 45 million users watched the movie.
It writes Netflix even on Twitter.
Took off my blindfold this morning to discover that 45,037,125 Netflix accounts have already watched Bird Box — best first 7 days ever for a Netflix movie! pic.twitter.com/uorU3cSzHR
— Netflix Movies (@NetflixFilm) 28. december 2018
‘Took my blindfold of this morning and discovered that 45.037.125 Netflix accounts already have seen the ‘Bird Box’ – the best seven days ever for a Netflix-movie’, says Netflix.
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The good news is not gone Susanne Bier past. On Instagram she has shared Netflix’ tweet, and here thank her many viewers.
‘mind-boggling news… Thank you, thank you, thank you’, she writes.
Sandra Bullock is starring in ‘Bird Box’. Photo: Merrick Morton/Netflix
Netfix is generally very secretive about their streaming figures.
The latest disclosure has also led several experts to question how Netflix calculates their ratings.
It writes multiple media, including CNN.
the Question is namely which users Netflix counts. They count only the users who have seen the whole movie to the end, or however, they are also those who only started the movie and seen a small part of it?
The american media Variety has unsuccessfully tried to get Netflix to elaborate on what the 45 million exactly entails.
If the number fits, corresponds, however, to a good third of streamingtjenestens total 137,1 million subscribers.
Susanne Bier’s film has received mixed words of various reviewers.
Extra Magazine’s film critic Henrik Queitsch, only gave the film two stars. He called, among other things, the manuscript is ‘disingenuous’ and the film ‘a genuine disappointment’.
Others however, have praised the film to the skies. Among other gyserforfatteren Stephen King.
‘I was completely captivated by ‘Bird Box’ (Netflix). Do not believe the lukewarm reviews, which in part may owe the reviewers ‘ ambivalent attitude to streamingplatformen opposite biografudgivelser,’ he wrote.
I was absolutely riveted by BIRD BOX (Netflix). Don’t believe the lukewarm reviews, which may in part have been caused by reviewers’ ambivalence to the streaming platform, as opposed to theatrical releases.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) 20. december 2018