A Netflix action thriller movie starringKingsman’s Taron Egerton is on the verge of breaking an all-time viewership record.Egerton played Gary “Eggsy” Unwin inKingsman: The Secret ServiceandKingsman: The Golden Circle. Between these two installments of Matthew Vaughn’s action-comedy franchise, Egerton voiced the teenage gorilla Johnny in the 2016 animated movieSing. He reprised the role in the 2021 sequelSing 2.
While he gained a great deal of recognition from his starring roles in theKingsmanandSingfranchises,Taron Egerton’s best movieis widely considered to beRocketman. Egerton played music legend Elton John in the 2019 biopic film, which received critical acclaim, and earned Egerton a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. In addition to his work in film,Egerton voiced the Gelfling hero Rian in the prematurely canceled Netflix seriesThe Dark Crystal: Age of Resistanceand played Jimmy Keene in the miniseriesBlack Bird, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination.
Carry-On Is A Streaming Hit Getting Close To A Major Netflix Record
It Is At The Top Of The Streaming Charts For The Second Week In A Row
Egerton’s Netflix movieCarry-Onis a streaming hit whose viewership moves closer to an impressive milestone. The 2024 action thrillerfollows a TSA agent, Ethan Kopek (Egerton), who must outsmart a traveler (Jason Bateman) blackmailing him. In addition to Egerton and Bateman,Carry-On’s castincludesDescendants' Sofia Carson,Breaking Bad’s Dean Norris,Station Eleven’s Danielle Deadwyler, andOnce Upon A Time’s Sinqua Walls.Carry-Onhas an 87% Tomatometer score and 55% Popcornmeter score on Rotten Tomatoes.
According toNetflix’s Global Top 10,Carry-Onis the streamer’s most-watched movie for the second week in a row. As perDeadline,Carry-Onhas amassed 97 million views in its first ten days, putting it on track to be in Netflix’s 10 most-watched movies of all time. Rian Johnson’sGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mysteryis currently the tenth most-watched movie in Netflix history, receiving 136.6 million views in its first month, and Jennifer Lopez’sThe Mother, the children’s superhero movieWe Can Be Heroes, and Millie Bobby Brown’sDamselare only narrowly ahead. Check out the list below:
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230.9 million
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171.4 million
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157.6 million
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157.4 million
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143.4 million
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139.3 million
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138 million
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137.3 million
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136.4 million
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136.3 million
Our Take On Carry-On’s Streaming Success
Carry-On Will Soon Be In The All-Time Top 10
At the rate of the viewership it has garnered in its first ten days,it will not be long beforeCarry-Onbecomes one of Netflix’s 10 most-watched moviesof all time. While there is a divide betweenCarry-On’s reviewsfrom critics and general audiences, this has not had a negative impact on its streaming viewership, and is consistent with many of Netflix’s most-watched movies.Kingsman’s Egerton will continue to be the face of one of Netflix’s biggest movies that continues to gain more viewership.
Carry-On
Cast
Carry On is a film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, focusing on a young TSA agent who is coerced by a mysterious traveler into allowing a dangerous package onto a Christmas Eve flight. As events unfold, he must use his wits to resolve the perilous situation.
