Netflixnew Christmas movie with a Magic Mike twist became his number 1 film within days of its release. Since 2017, the streaming service has been producing original Christmas films, starting with A Christmas Prince. Over the years, the streaming platform has established itself as a premier destination for holiday movies, including The Princess Swap starring Vanessa Hudgens, and The Christmas Chronicles starring Kurt Russell, both in 2018. Last year, one of Netflix’s most popular holiday movies was Better. Christmas. Always!.
In 2024, several Netflix Christmas films have already reached the top of the Global Top 10 chart in the last three weeks. In the first full week of November, Meet me next Christmas took first place on Netflix’s Global Top 10 Movies with 18.1 million views, followed by Lacey Chabert’s Hot cold the following week with 16 million views. Now, yet another of Netflix’s Christmas movies has topped the Global Top 10 chart. It’s not even December yet, so this trend could continue throughout the final month of the year.
The Merry Gentlemen is Netflix’s #1 movie
Christmas movie with Magic Mike Twist has 14.7 million views
Netflix’s new Christmas movie with a Magic Mike twist, The merry gentlemenit became the number 1 film within days of its release. Directed by Peter Sullivan, who co-wrote the script with Jeffrey Schenck and Marla Sokoloff, Netflix’s new Christmas film follows a former big-city dancer who, to save her parents’ small-town performance venue, stages an exclusively male revue with a Christmas theme. Britt Robertson and Chad Michael Murray lead The merry gentlemen cast alongside Marla Sokoloff, Marc Anthony Samuel, Colt Prattes, Hector David Jr., Maxwell Caulfield and Michael Gross.
Now, just days after its release on November 20th, NetflixNew Christmas movie became #1 movie. The merry gentlemen takes first place in Netflix’s global Top 10 films (English) for the week of November 18-24, with 14.7 million views and 21.6 million hours viewed. Hot cold finished behind him in second place, with the holiday film, Meet me next Christmasin seventh place. Fascinated, Minions: The Rise of Gru, Ready or Not, Buy now: the shopping conspiracy, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, The huntand Rob Paz complete the rest of the Top 10.
Our Take on The Merry Gentlemen’s Netflix Success
Are Netflix Christmas movies getting worse?
Netflix has already had two Christmas films top its global charts in 2024, Meet me next Christmas and Cold hot, which, despite some glaring flaws, were fairly well received, resulting in scores of 69% and 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, respectively. However, The merry gentlemen is easily the worst Christmas movie Netflix has produced this yearevidenced by its 42% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and 29% audience rating. In Rant’ Screenand The merry gentlemen review, Ben Gibbons calls the Netflix film one”woeful attempt to turn a movie with a similar tone to Magic Mike into a heartwarming Christmas affair“what”fail.”
Source: Netflix