Rebel Moon
Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver managed about three or four days on the top of Netflix’s Top 10 movies list, but now a new entry has come along and dethroned it. Though given how big the new movie is, that seems like it would have been inevitable for any other movie.
The new #1 film is Anyone But You, the Sydney Sweeney/Glen Powell megahit romcom that grossed $200 million on a $25 million budget, and was one of the biggest genre hits in recent memory with two of the industry’s top young stars. Netflix landed the streaming rights from Sony, and here we are. It was always going to debut at #1.
There’s some debate about whether or not Rebel Moon is meeting, surpassing or falling short of expectations. It did top the Global Top 10 list for the week of April 15 through April 21, despite being available for just three of those days. That said, it had only 3 million more views in that window than “Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp” Its 21 million views is a steep drop from the 34 million views that Part 1: A Child of Fire got back in January of 2024. That movie went on to get 80-90 million views eventually, according to director Zack Snyder, but by default, it seems like Part 2 is going to underperform that.
Top 10
The arrival of Part 2 of Rebel Moon did cause Part 1 to appear on the Top 10 charts so people could watch (or rewatch) the first one before watching the second one. It appeared low on the list and is now hanging on at #10, but it no doubt added to its overall total.
Of course, we’re still not done. Six more hours of Rebel Moon are coming, two, three-hour cuts of these two films with R-rated elements. Snyder describes them as practically entirely new films. Though it would also be logical for those films to be viewed less than the original Part 1 and 2. Six hours is a big ask and the amount of people willing to invest that time in more Rebel Moon is likely pretty low, especially given that the films are…not especially good, by most metrics. There’s always this idea if you just execute Snyder’s exact vision it would be transformative and make a bad movie good. It did sort of happen with Justice League, but I think there are limits to this concept, particularly when it comes to Rebel Moon, but we’ll see.
Anyone But You is going to be planted in that top spot for a long time. It dominated the paid digital charts when it was released on places like Amazon, and now that it’s streaming on Netflix itself? Forget about it.
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