Overview
- Netflix says the Skydance feature drew 38.7 million views in a single week, setting a new high for an animated original and topping the English films list.
- The movie more than doubled from a 15.5 million debut week to that total in its second frame, reflecting the platform’s pattern of bigger week-two gains for some titles.
- The new mark exceeds the best weeks for The Sea Beast at 34.9 million and Leo at 34.6 million, with KPop: Demon Hunters peaking at 30.1 million.
- Director Nathan Greno says the team spent more than six years on the film and rebuilt it from a teen-superhero concept into a non-human body-swap fable focused on empathy.
- Greno credits John Lasseter with urging the shift away from human characters, and the finished film—starring Michael B. Jordan, Juno Temple and Tracy Morgan—is now streaming on Netflix.