Tyler Perry Just Shared A Wild Stat About Madea’s Destination Wedding (And How It Compares To KPop Demon Hunters) That Is Blowing My Mind
Tyler Perry’s Madea franchise isn’t precisely the kind of film sequence that generates headlines. Folks don’t talk about them obsessively on-line like the latest Marvel film or think about them in conversations with “blockbuster” movies. Extra typically, Madea is the butt of jokes and has additionally been the supply of criticism, because the seemingly limitless franchise of comedies continues, seemingly endlessly. Maybe due to that, it’s straightforward to overlook that the rationale there are such a lot of Madea motion pictures is as a result of they’re really insanely common, and that turns into clear whenever you evaluate them with different Netflix hits like KPop Demon Hunters.
When Madea motion pictures get launched in theaters, they’re common field workplace winners, and now Tyler Perry has revealed simply how many individuals watched Madea’s Destination Wedding in its first week, and…it’s rather a lot.
The streaming viewing stats for the top of the primary week of Madea’s Destination Wedding estimate 1.3 billion minutes watched, which is a completely insane quantity when in comparison with all the things else on the record. Kpop Demon Hunters, which has been an absolute juggernaut on Netflix, is just at a bit over 350 million minutes seen, and whereas that film has been out for over a month, its rewatchability has stored it on the high of the charts for weeks. It’s now being dwarfed by an order of magnitude.
Madea motion pictures have almost at all times been huge wins for Tyler Perry. Whereas the movies didn’t precisely set field workplace data after they had been theatrical releases, the extremely constant viewers response, mixed with modest budgets, made each a monetary success. That observe file is definitely on show right here. One has to imagine that not solely have lots of people watched the brand new Madea movie, however many watched it greater than as soon as.
Netflix must be pleased with these kinds of viewing numbers, and it received’t be surprising if we see extra of Madea on Netflix, because it’s clearly a cause for individuals to get, or hold, a Netflix subscription. That is the second Madea film made for Netflix, and each movies have been profitable. The earlier flick, Madea’s Homecoming, reentered Netflix’s film charts alongside the discharge of the brand new movie.
The one-two punch of KPop Demon Hunters and Madea’s Destination Wedding, whereas definitely an odd mixture, has made Netflix a high streaming platform. Any film studio releasing motion pictures this summer season would like to have two main field workplace hits on par with what these movies are doing. Sequels to each of them would appear fairly probably given the success. The truth that we have now but to get a KPop Demon Hunters sequel announcement is one thing of a shock.
Within the U.S., Madea’s Destination Wedding has fallen behind KPop Demon Hunters on the Netflix charts, however each motion pictures are nonetheless doing extremely properly globally. Whichever one finally ends up on high, Netflix and film followers are profitable.
