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Well, we knew it couldn't last forever. After being declared the #1 Movie Worldwide on Amazon's weekly official streaming network rankings chart for over five weeks... .. and being declared the #1 Overall Streaming Content Worldwide in its first week according to the Neilson Ratings... ...Amazon has released their official rankings from August 24th to August 30th and “Masters of the Universe” has finally dropped to the #2 spot over at Prime Video, beaten out by the new romantic drama "The Last Sunrise". Here are the details: Top 10 Prime Original films (English & non-English) worldwide: Aug 24-Aug 30 The Last Sunrise Masters of the…
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I'd be very surprised if the performance in question could threaten either a possible sequel or the future of the franchise at this point. So, I guess we can just let it rest once and for all.
How many times did you think the loyal MOTU base could watch it over and over and over to prop up its ranking?
I was pleasantly surprised it lasted as long as it did! The film seemed not to be all that interesting to general audiences, given its theatrical performance. By the same token though, it can't possibly have been just dedicated Eternia fans watching and rewatching the movie repeatedly for five weeks, and that's all that made it so successful on streaming! No, it must have actually found an audience of streamers who were willing to take a chance on an evening action movie, but wouldn't have actively gone out to the theater for this one. I wonder about their demographic makeup!
Though it's interesting that MOTU was de-throned not by another action movie, but by a romance.
I actually never saw the 2026 Masters of the Universe film on Prime... I went to the theaters twice though!