Taron Egerton’s new Christmas thriller Carry-On has set a record for Netflix just days after its release.
The movie, which is set on Christmas Eve, focuses on a TSA agent who fights to outsmart a mysterious traveller after he is blackmailed into letting a dangerous package through security.
Since its release last Friday (December 13), Carry-On has landed the biggest opening for a Netflix movie this year, according to the streamer, hitting the top 10 in 93 countries and topping the English film list with 42 million views.
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Alongside Egerton, the movie also stars Jason Bateman, Sofia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler, Theo Rossi, Logan Marshall-Green, Sinqua Walls and Dean Norris, while Non-Stop‘s Jaume Collet-Serra directs.
Speaking previously about the film, the director opened up about the benefits of working within confined spaces for thrillers – in this case, an airport.
“Contained environments force us to get to know the movie’s characters very quickly and personally – we’re immediately in the thick of the story with them, which creates a genuine investment in what’s happening on-screen,” Collet-Serra told Tudum.
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“It’s also a very exciting visual challenge as a filmmaker to come up with creative ways to shoot every inch of a small space and try to make it look different and find new details of the world in each scene.”
Carry-On is one of a number of new Netflix movies released this festive season, including Hot Frosty, Our Little Secret, The Merry Gentlemen and That Christmas.
In other Christmas movie record news, Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans’s recent cinema flop Red One has become an unexpected streaming hit after being added to Prime Video, having been viewed by 50 million people in its first weekend.
Carry-On is available to stream now on Netflix.
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