‘Heads Of State' Rules With 75M+ Global Prime Video Viewers, Amazon MGM Studios' Fourth Most Watched Movie On The Streamer
That makes it the fourth most-watched Amazon MGM Studios film of all-time on Amazon's OTT service.
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The pic ranks behind the Dwayne Johnson-Chris Evans Christmas action title Red One from Jake Kasdan, which is Prime Video's most watched Amazon MGM feature title of all time. While an extended month number was never made public, Red One clocked 50M Prime Video viewers in its first four days; it also received a theatrical release, grossing $186M worldwide.
The second most-watched Amazon MGM movie on Prime is the Ben Affleck-Jon Bernthal The Accountant 2 with 80M worldwide viewers over its first 28 days. That Gavin O'Connor-directed action dramedy also went to the big screen and grossed $103.2M at the global box office.
In third is Skydance acquisition The Tomorrow War.
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 Query. follows a UK Prime Minister and U.S. President who become the targets of a foreign adversary. The duo are forced to rely on each other to thwart a global conspiracy.
The film also landed the No. 1 spot on Nielsen's Movie chart during its debut week with 1.098 billion minutes streamed and was the No. 1 film on Prime Video for four weeks.
Pic's producers are Peter Safran and John Rickard, with Marcus Viscidi, Appelbaum, Nemec, Cena and Elba executive producing.
Naishuller has also come aboard to direct Amazon MGM Studios' Road House 2, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, who is reprising his role as Dalton.
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