{"id":738319,"date":"2022-01-06T22:47:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/dont-look-up-sets-new-netflix-weekly-viewing-record\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T22:47:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:47:34","slug":"dont-look-up-sets-new-netflix-weekly-viewing-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/dont-look-up-sets-new-netflix-weekly-viewing-record\/","title":{"rendered":"'Don't Look Up' sets new Netflix weekly viewing record"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jan. 6 (UPI) —<\/span> Satirical sci-fi film Don’t Look Up<\/i> has set a new Netflix weekly viewing record.<\/p>\n

The movie, directed by Adam McKay and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, broke Netflix’s record for the most viewing hours in a single week following its release Dec. 24.\n<\/p>\n

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Netflix confirmed Thursday to Deadline that Don’t Look Up<\/i> had 152.29 million hours watched globally in the week of Dec. 27-Jan. 2.<\/p>\n

Variety said the film had 111,030,000 hours viewed in its first two days.<\/p>\n

In addition, Don’t Look Up<\/i> is the third-most-watched film in Netflix history, following Bird Box<\/i>, starring Sandra Bullock, and Red Notice<\/i> with Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds.<\/p>\n

McKay said in a tweet Tuesday that he was “straight up flabbergasted” by the amount of views.<\/p>\n

Don’t Look Up<\/i> is written, directed and produced by McKay (Anchorman<\/i>, The Big Short<\/i>). The film follows an astronomy professor (DiCaprio) and his student (Lawrence), who try to warn humanity of an approaching comet that will destroy life on Earth.\n<\/p>\n

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Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry. Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Cate Blanchett and Meryl Street also star.<\/p>\n

Blanchett said Wednesday in an interview on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon<\/i> that Don’t Look Up<\/i> is “more like a documentary” than a satire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan. 6 (UPI) — Satirical sci-fi film Don’t Look Up has set a new Netflix weekly viewing record. The movie, directed by Adam McKay and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, broke Netflix’s record for the most viewing hours in a single week following its release Dec. 24. Advertisement Netflix confirmed Thursday to Deadline that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}