Much like Netflix, Prime Video’s most-watched charts can be a spotty affair. For every quickly forgotten Comedy from Peter Dinklage and Josh Brolin that hits the Prime video rankingsThere is A Beloved John Candy Movie Reminding us all how it’s supposed to be done. Now, another solid film proves that streaming audiences can demand more than generic Svod Sols, as “Blink Twice” makes an impressive run on the major video charts.
Directed by Zoë Kravitz, who also co-wrote the screenplay alongside and Feigenbaum (“High Fidelity”), “Blink Twice” was one of the biggest surprises of 2024establishing Kravitz as not only a capable filmmaker, but also a director to watch moving forward. The film stars Naomi Ackie as cocktail waitress Frida, who, alongside her friend Jess (Alia Shawkat), accepts an invitation to the private island of tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum). Once on the island, however, Frida slowly begins to suspect that all is not quite what it seems in this easy-going paradise. Things go from trendy and uncomfortable to straight-up Twisted as Frida discovers the true intention of her host and her entourage of insupposed yuppie bros. The final act of the film relies on an intense wit-f*** of a denouement, so that by The ending of “Blink Twice” You’re as breathless as the final revenge girls in the Kravtiz-inspired psychological thriller.
“Blink Twice” was once a modest box office success, but now it’s proving to be equally (if not more) a streaming success, with the film garnering a truly global audience and taking over the video charts.
Blink twice has top-notch video viewers transfixed
At a time when a truly abject Cameron Diaz Film Dominates Netflix Chartsit’s nice to see Zoë Kravitz’s thriller doing the same on Amazon’s premium video service. “Blink Twice” hit Prime Video on January 21, 2024 and was made available in several countries around the world. Since then, it has become nothing short of a mega hit for the platform, hitting number one in the US and charting in 101 countries as of January 27. But that’s just the beginning of this film’s streaming success.
STATERSIDE, “Blink Twice” has seen a meteoric rise to the top of the most-watched charts on Prime video. According to Flixpatrola site that aggregates streaming audience figures from all the different platforms, the day after the movie, it was already streaming enough for the video. But the next day, on January 23, it went straight to number one, where it has sat ever since, allowing it to make it to number two on the overall US chart (for both films and television). It’s about as good as Amazon and Kravitz could have hoped for, but there’s more.
In Madagascar, northern Macedonia and Slovenia, the film has been number one since it hit the service. It also currently sits at number two on the charts of 56 other countries, suggesting that “Blink Twice” could take the top spot in many markets in the coming week. On top of all this, of the 101 countries in which “blinks twice”, its lowest chart position is fifth, and that’s just Malaysia and Turkey.
All this made “blinks twice” nothing less than a steam sensation, which is reflected in other top-notch video graphics. At the time of writing Top 10 Flixpatrol The shows are enough to propel it to second place on the global most-watched movies chart for Prime Video.
