Netflix has announced that Martin Scorsese’s new mob movie The Irishman has been watched by over 26m accounts in its first seven days on the streaming service.
Partly to compensate for its limited presence in cinemas, Netflix booked The Irishman to play for a month at New York’s celebrated Belasco theatre on Broadway.
The Irishman was released on Netflix on 27 November, after cinema releases in most major territories – including the US on 1 November, the UK on 8 November, and Australia on 13 November.
Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer, announced the figures at a conference in New York.