With the streaming community significantly more crowded now than a year ago, platforms are forced to struggle a bit harder to get attention. Disney + got Hamilton. HBO Max got friends and Doctor who. Peacock has a 30 rocks Reunion. Now Apple TV + has its own thing, and it seems to be very successful. We mean the Tom Hanks underwater movie Greyhound, which one lost his theatrical career to the coronavirus but it premiered on Apple TV + a few days ago. Hanks himself I wasn’t especially happy about it, but it seems that Apple users were more than happy to pick up their extremely terrible Apple TV remotes and slide their fingers towards the Greyhound page this weekend (after turning the remote, of course, because it looks exactly the same on both ends and you can’t tell if you’re lifting the right side without feeling the buttons).
According to Deadline, Greyhound You’ve enjoyed the “biggest opening weekend launch ever” for Apple’s relatively new streaming platform, and while that may not seem like much, because what else would a great weekend launch have had? Includes everything that was released with Apple TV +. In other words, GreyhoundThe launch of Apple TV + was larger than the launch of Apple TV +, suggesting that the key to attracting subscribers to your streaming platform is … paying big bucks for exclusive rights to a big-budget war movie. starring one of the most beloved movies in Hollywood. Actors.Okay, it’s a tough task, so this particular success can be difficult to replicate, but any other platform, like saying … Quibi, you just need to find their equivalent to Tom Hanks underwater movie.
In terms of strict numbers, Deadline says Apple declined to offer anything like that, but its sources say that GreyhoundThe number of viewers was “in keeping with a huge summer box office hit.” If we are talking is summer that means literally nothing but for sure it sounds Awesome.
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