The Midnight Sky is the winner of the holiday season. The Netflix original, whose cast boasts of George Clooney and Felicity Jones, has become one of the most popular movies in the past couple of days and has been streamed a record-breaking number of times. If the current trend of viewership continues in the following months, The Midnight Sky will become the most-watched Netflix movie within a month.
The science-fiction drama is based on Lily Brooks-Dalton’s book Good Morning, Midnight. The film opens in a semi-apocalyptic setting, where the Earth is dying, and ambitious scientist Augustine Lofthouse (Clooney) is on the lookout for habitable planets. When a global catastrophe wipes out nearly all of the Earth’s population, he tries to contact the spacecraft Æther to warn them about the situation.
In a rare show of transparency, Netflix revealed its viewership statistics for a film and posted that Midnight Sky had been streamed 72 million times in the first week of its debut. 72 million is nearly one-third of Netflix’s subscribers, which means that the actual number of people who have watched it is much higher.
While the film’s performance on the streaming service has been overwhelmingly positive, critically, the movie has received mixed to negative reviews. The Midnight Sky and Wonder Woman 1984 have become two very popular films in the holiday season, thanks to their streaming numbers, even though their reviews haven’t been favorable. With the pandemic, a new era of movie-viewing has emerged- streaming platforms are important factors of a production’s success. Is this the new law of the industry?
If you have not watched the film yet, take a look at the trailer below:
Did you watch The Midnight Sky? Do you think apocalyptic films have a greater chance of succeeding during the coronavirus pandemic?
About The Midnight Sky
The Midnight Sky is a semi-apocalyptic science fiction movie. It revolves around Augustine Lofthouse, a scientist who works on discovering habitable planets in the galaxy. When a radiation disaster wipes out almost all of the population on Earth, Augustine reaches out to the only spacecraft that has not decommissioned to warn them not to come back.
The Midnight Sky is based on Good Morning, Midnight, a book written by Lily Dalton-Brooks-Dalton.
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