Bad reviews be damned, Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire” is a semi success on Netflix.
The streaming giant announced that the sci-fi fantasy was the most viewed title on the platform since its debut the night of December 21, garnerning 23.9 million views in three days.
This is a decent start for what will be, Snyder hopes, a mega franchise constituting of a handful of films. Then again, the recent “Leave the World Behind” did 42 million views in its first three days. You be the judge.
Snyder wants ‘Rebel Moon’ to be his own Star Wars. The next instalment, ‘Part Two: The Scargiver,’ streams on April 19, 2024.
However, IndieWire’s Tom Brueggemann says the buried lede here is that Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro,” considered an Oscar contender, and given a nationwide, four-week theatrical release, dropped out of the Netflix top 10 after only four days.
“Maestro” is positioned as Netflix’s top Oscar contender. With Cooper’s attachment, and the film’s good reviews and publicity, this was supposed to be a no-brainer buzz title for the streamer. That hasn’t happened.
I’ve already tackled the lacklustre audience response for “Maestro.” Outside of film critic circles, the reactions to Cooper’s film have been rather blah. It currently has a 6.8 on IMDb, 73% audience rating on RT and tepid 3.3 score on Letterboxd. The reason for these middling scores might be that “Maestro” is very much an arthouse film that attempts to defy biopic cliches.