EXCLUSIVE: The Ilya Naishuller directed motion film Heads of State has clocked in north of 75 million worldwide Prime Video viewers since its July 2 launch, we are able to let you know first.
That makes it the fourth most-watched Amazon MGM Studios’ movie of all-time on the OTT service.
The pic ranks behind the Dwayne Johnson-Chris Evans Christmas motion title, Purple One, from Jake Kasdan which is Prime Video’s most watched Amazon MGM Studios characteristic title of all-time. Whereas an prolonged month quantity was by no means made public, Purple One clocked 50M Prime Video viewers in its first 4 days. Purple One acquired a theatrical launch grossing $186M worldwide.
The second most-watched Amazon MGM Studios film on Prime is the Ben Affleck-Jon Bernthal The Accountant 2 with 80M worldwide viewers over its first 28 days. That Gavon O’Connor directed motion dramedy additionally went to the massive display and grossed $103.2M on the international B.O.
Third most-watched Amazon MGM Studios title stays the conglom’s Skydance acquisition, The Tomorrow Warfare.
Heads of State stars Idris Elba, John Cena, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Carla Gugino, Jack Quaid, Stephen Root, Sarah Niles, Richard Coyle, and Paddy Considine. Pic, written by Josh Appelbaum & André Nemec and Harrison Question follows U.Ok. Prime Minister and U.S. President who turn out to be the targets of a overseas adversary. The duo are compelled to depend on one another to thwart a world conspiracy.
The movie additionally landed the #1 spot on Nielsen’s Film chart debut week with 1.098 billion minutes streamed and was the #1 movie on Prime Video for 4 weeks.
Pic’s producers are Peter Safran and John Rickard, with Marcus Viscidi, Appelbaum, Nemec, Cena, and Elba govt producing.
Naishuller has additionally come aboard to direct Amazon MGM Studios’ Highway Home 2, starring Jake Gyllenhaal who’s reprising his function as Dalton.