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.

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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.

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.

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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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