J.Lo’s Atlas Racks Up 28.2 Million Views on Netflix, as Actual Memorial Day Weekend Box Office Struggles

Atlas, Jennifer Lopez’s latest Netflix flick, racked up more than 28 million views over Memorial Day Weekend, while not quite 3 million people bought tickets to see the latest Mad Max movie.

Premiering Friday, May 24, Atlas debuted atop Netflix’s English Films List with 28.2 million views, making it the most-watched title for the week of May 20. All told, the sci-fi thriller reached the Netflix Top 10 in 93 countries.

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Lopez’s previous Netflix outing, The Mother, had a Mother’s Day Weekend 2023 release and proceeded to top the streamer’s in-house Top 10 list for four consecutive weeks. On Netflix’s all-time ranking of English films, The Mother stands at No. 8, with more than 136 million views. (Netflix rightly defines a “view” as total minutes streamed divided by running time.)

Directed by Brad Peyton (San Andreas, Rampage) and penned by Aron Eli Coleite (Daybreak) and Leo Sardarian, Atlas follows Lopez’s titular character, a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence. When Atlas joins a mission to capture a renegade robot with whom she shares a mysterious past, plans go awry, and her only hope of saving the future of humanity from AI is to trust it. The cast also includes Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us, American Fiction), Abraham Popoola (Extraordinary, The Curse), Lana Parrilla (Once Upon a Time), Mark Strong (Sky One’s Temple) and Gregory James Cohan.

Atlas‘ beefy watch-at-home debut came as the actual, venture-to-a-moviehouse box office struggled.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, per sister site THR, grossed an estimated $32 million domestically for the four-day weekend, making it the worst No. 1 Memorial Day Weekend debut since Casper in 1995 scared up just $22.5 million. (Said sad stat excludes 2020, when theaters were closed during the pandemic.)

In claiming the weekend win, Furiosa (which reportedly carried a nearly $170 million budget) barely declawed The Garfield Movie, which wound up drawing $31.1 million in the U.S. (against a reported $50 million budget).

Furiosa has a Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 90%, while Atlas mustered just 50%.

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