Netflix has given Jennifer Lopez at least one reason to smile this week after cancelling her entire US tour amid swirling speculation around her marriage to Ben Affleck. Well, 31,600,000 reasons actually, as that’s how many times her new $100million action sci-fi movie Atlas has been watched in the past week. For the second week running, it’s the most popular title on the streaming platform, defying critics and terrible reviews .
It was initially watched a staggering 28 million times in is first three days on the platform, despite showing a dismal and (very) rotten score of just 19% on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. The $100million (£78.6m) movie follows data analyst Atlas Shepherd (Lopez) as she embarks on a mission to stop a renegade robot.
In the face of her deep distrust of AI, she is forced to trust the artificial intelligence device when the mission takes a dangerous turn. Atlas also stars Oscar nominee Sterling K. Brown , Marvel’s Simu Liu and Sherlock Holmes and Shazam! actor Mark Strong.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video According to Netflix’s site Tudum , Atlas has completely dominated this week’s global top 10 once again, with 31.6m views of the movie clocked internationally. That’s also comfortably ahead of the 21.
4m Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver managed in its first (partial) week of release back in April. This is based on 63,100,000 hours.
