Disney’s xenomorphic prequel series thrashes the competition, while Bob Odenkirk’s action debut returns.
Axiomatically, when a sequel is in the theatres, the earlier films in the series get a fair whack of attention on streaming. So, nobody should be surprised that Nobody is the number one streaming film in Australia this week.
In fact, almost the entire Top 10 being theatrical releases that hit streaming in the not-too-distant past kind of supports the theory. For all the argument that theatrical is in decline, it certainly has a strong effect on streaming. The only non-theatrical to chart this week is Netflix‘s Night Always Comes at number two, a gritty little crime thriller that sees Vanessa Kirby as a sex worker on the run. Even Retreat, a fairly obscure 2011 horror starring Cillian Murphy and Thandiwe Newton, saw the inside of a cinema back in the day.
On the serial side, Alien: Earth was always going to absolutely swedge the competition, and whaddya know? It’s the first time the normally theatrical Alien series has hit streaming in serial form. I specify “serial” here because there was that handful of Alien shorts a few years back that everybody seems to have forgotten about.
Downstream from the xenomorph, it’s a bit weird. I’d have expected Wednesday to be much closer to the top, what with all the non-expenses-spared promo Netflix fanged out this week. I checked out Wednesday Island on Saturday and had a pretty killer time, and the In Conversation with Tim Burton, Miles Gough, and Miles Millar at NIDA earlier that day was great. But it turns out that if you only drop four episodes of your season, you’re not gonna hover ’round the top end of the chart for long.
That’s a temporary state of affairs, though. Wednesday will be #1 again the second the next part of the season lands, mark my words.
Australian Streaming Charts supplied by JustWatch.
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