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Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler’s new comedy Murder Mystery breaks Netflix records


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Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler’s new film has given Netflix their biggest opening weekend ever, with over 30 million accounts watching the comedy.

Netflix, who are notoriously cagey about releasing their data, have revealed that ‘30,869,863 accounts watched Murder Mystery’ in the first three days, which os officially ‘the biggest opening weekend ever for a Netflix Film’.

Those figures are broken down into ‘13,374,914 accounts in the US and Canada, and 17,494,949 more worldwide’.

Netflix data works on the premise that 70% of a film has to have been watched to count in the final figures.

The numbers will be a boost to the streaming service however, who in 2015 signed a four-film deal with Sandler, despite his box office numbers dropping stradily in recent years.

In 2017 the two signed a deal for a further four films, but it seems to have paid off.

Adam Sandler is funny and everyone is obsessed with Jennifer Aniston’s wedges in Murder Mystery (Picture: Netflix)

The company have always claimed that as a subscriber service not reliant on advertising they do not need to release figures, but in recent weeks have begun a shift away from that.

In early May, Netflix UK began testing Top 10 lists of most-watched content, with the account confirming on 19 June that Murder Mystery was the most-watched in the past week.

The new episodes of Black Mirror and Ava DuVernay’s devastating documentary on the Central Park Five, When They See Us, round out the top three.





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