One of Netflix‘s last original movies releases of 2024 is shaping up to be one of its biggest — and not just for the calendar year.
Carry-On, a thriller starring Taron Egerton, Jason Bateman and Sofia Carson, has rolled up big viewing numbers over its first 10 days of release, according to Netflix’s internal rankings. From its premiere date on Dec. 13 through Dec. 22, the film has recorded 97.1 million views worldwide (measured by total viewing hours divided by its two-hour running time). It has ranked first on Netflix’s charts for English-language movies in both weeks of its release (figures for this week will be released Dec. 31).
Carry-On, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (Jungle Cruise) and written by T.J. Fixman, follows a TSA agent (Egerton) who is being blackmailed to allow a bag containing a deadly nerve agent on board a flight. Bateman plays the mercenary orchestrating the scheme.
The 97.1 million views over 10 days for Carry-On put the movie on track to break into Netflix’s top 10 English-language original movies in the next couple of weeks. The current 10th-place film is Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery with 136.3 million views; Carry-On is already more than 70 percent of the way to that total. Netflix’s all-time top 10 lists include view counts over a movie or series’ first 91 days of release.
Netflix’s original films tend to show sizable declines in viewing in their third week — Damsel, the only 2024 release currently on all-time top 10, went from 50.8 million views in its second week to 19.5 in its third, a drop of about 62 percent. Even if Carry-On mirrors that, however, it would still add some 21 million views to its total this week, putting it on the doorstep of the top 10.
Netflix’s top-performing original movie to date is Red Notice with 230.9 million views over 91 days.
