A surprise Bill Murray comedy on Netflix is battling Encanto for top streaming spot
The streaming wars are weird. Just when you think a Netflix original like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre will reign atop the charts for a few weeks, a random Bill Murray comedy from 2014 comes along and becomes the most-streamed Netflix movie.
Nielsen has released its latest streaming numbers, and while Encanto still happily sits as the top overall movie on all major streaming services, St. Vincent – which stars Murray alongside Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts, and Chris O'Dowd – comes in second place, beating The Tinder Swindler and the reboot of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Now, bear in mind that Nielsen's numbers are delayed, meaning these numbers are for the week of February 14 to February 20. Those dates are before The Adam Project reached Netflix and became the streamer's new number one movie. Also to note: this is US data, not UK – St. Vincent is not streaming on Netflix UK.
Here are the streaming charts for movies, provided by Nielson via The Hollywood Reporter.
In St. Vincent, Murray plays Vincent, a Vietnam vet who lives alone with his Persian furball of a cat, Felix. He drinks. He gambles. And he occasionally has sex, with a pregnant prostitute named Daka (Watts, with a thick Russian accent). That is, until Maggie (McCarthy), still recovering from a tough divorce, and her 12-year-old son Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher) move in next door. Cue laughs and romance.
The same streaming report also revealed the top shows for the same time period, with Inventing Anna comfortably sitting at the top of the original series list, followed by Love is Blind and Ozark, all of which are on Netflix. Amazon Prime Video comes in fourth with Reacher. Here's the full list of most-streamed original shows:
Finally, we have the most-streamed
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