Mary lingers in a few local Netflix Top 10 lists in week 4
The Nativity-themed film evidently didn't get much of a Christmas boost.
There was no Christmas boost for Netflix’s Mary over the holiday—not in most countries, at least.
The film, which dramatizes the life of Mary up to and including the birth of Jesus, landed in the top ten in just three countries during the week of December 23-29, according to the latest data from Netflix. Those countries were Croatia, Portugal, and Türkiye.
That’s fewer than the ten countries that had the film on their lists last week—and a lot fewer than the 83 countries that had it on their lists the week before that.
Interestingly, Türkiye is the only country that has had Mary in its top ten every week since the film came out December 6. The film didn’t make the lists in Croatia or Portugal last week, so the fact that it resurfaced there this week suggests it might have gotten a Christmas bump in those countries, at least—or maybe other films just lost viewers faster.
Also worth noting: The Star, an animated version of the Nativity story that was in the American top ten for the past two weeks, did not appear on this week’s list—but The Forge, a “faith-based” film from the Kendrick brothers (which, like The Star, was produced by Sony’s Affirm Films), did make its first appearance, at #4.
There is no info on how many views Mary or The Forge got during the week covered by these lists, as Netflix only releases that information for the global top ten.
So we’ll just have to wait for the next semi-annual data dump—which will cover July-December 2024—to see how many views they got altogether this month.1
I wrote about the previous data dumps, and how many views different Bible movies and TV shows got, here: Jan-Jun 2023, Jul-Dec 2023, and Jan-Jun 2024.