Netflix’s Top Charts Bring Forth Forgotten Fantasy Film Warcraft

“Warcraft” arrived on Netflix on July 1, 2024, and according to FlixPatrol, a site that aggregates streaming viewership numbers, by July 3 the film had already hit the number two spot on the United States’ most-watched charts. Since then it’s seen a slight decline, falling to number three as of July 3 and hitting number five as of July 9. But that’s still a pretty strong showing from Duncan Jones’ action fantasy some eight years after it first debuted.

At the time of writing, “Warcraft” is competing with nostalgia-heavy sequel “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” which is in the number one spot. Between Eddie Murphy and the Warcraft orcs are such formidable foes as Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron with their rom-com “A Family Affair,” and Sandra Bullock with her controversial 2009 hit “The Blind Side,” which claimed to be a true story but may or may not have been based on a lie. Not only that, but in order to make its way back up the charts “Warcraft” will have to do battle with perhaps the most powerful adversaries imaginable in the Minions, which currently occupy the number three spot with the 2015 “Minions” movie.

With that in mind, and with the fact that “Warcraft” has been slowly slipping down the chart since its debut, it doesn’t seem likely that the movie will make it back to the top spot any time soon. But Jones can surely be glad his forgotten 2016 effort has had a mini renaissance courtesy of Netflix.