Orion and the Dark, a new animated movie with a script from Charlie Kaufman, has become Netflix's third biggest movie in the world, accumulating 10 million views in its first week.
I love Charlie Kaufman movies. His classics like Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind are fantastical, mind-bending wonders -- weird and delightful, like nothing you've ever seen before. So when I heard that Netflix was releasing Orion and the Dark, a sweet new quasi-fairy tale of an animated movie with a script from Kaufman, I obviously did what any self-respecting fan of the screenwriter would do and eagerly anticipated the meta gem that was sure to follow.
On that score, the movie about a young boy who's basically a nervous bundle of anxieties delivers, and then some. One thing I wasn't prepared for, though, was how strong of a first-week showing the movie would enjoy. Based on the latest global chart data that Netflix updates each week, Orion and the Dark is the streamer's third biggest movie in the world right now (if you include both English and non-English films), having racked up 10 million views in its first seven days post-releas
Orion And The Dark Netflix Movie Charlie Kaufman Animated Success