The Ides of March had been marked this 12 months by a three-way race amongst excessive profile filmmakers – Peter Farrelly, Doug Liman and Man Ritchie – with unique streaming movie and TV sequence debuts throughout Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. However the sleeper success story of the week belonged to Netflix’s Lindsay Lohan rom com film “Irish Want.”

Ritchie made a splashy debut on March 7 with Netflix’s “The Gents,” an eight-episode TV heist drama delivered within the director’s signature fashion. In its second week, “Gents” had strong maintain with a modest 30% decline to 1.3 billion minutes watched through the March 15-21 body, in line with unique streaming content material scores calculated by Luminate.

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Liman’s “Highway Home” redux with Jake Gyllenhaal grabbed consideration in its March 21 debut on Prime Video. In its first day in launch, the title amassed a decent 121.5 million minutes watched, per Luminate. “Highway Home” generated headlines earlier this month when Liman vowed to boycott the movie’s March 8 premiere on the SXSW competition in Austin, Texas to protest the shortage of a theatrical launch for his Amazon Studios-produced remake of the 1989 Tom Cruise starrer. (Liman in the end modified his thoughts and did attend.)

By comparability, Netflix’s extremely anticipated new drama sequence “3 Physique Downside” generated 62.6 million minutes watched throughout eight episodes in its first day of launch on March 21. Apple TV+’s “Palm Royale,” starring Kristen Wiig, Ricky Martin and Josh Lucas, bowed at No. 36 after two days in launch with 63 million minutes considered throughout 10 episodes since March 20.

In the meantime, Farrelly’s newest film “Ricky Stanicky” noticed a steep 56% drop off in week two with 239.5 million minutes watched. The buddy comedy starring Zac Efron, John Cena and William H. Macy was launched March 7 on Prime Video.

“Irish Want” put Lohan within the verdant environs of the Emerald Isle for a wedding-centered romantic comedy directed by Janeen Damian. The 93-minute title, which dropped March 15, amassed 698.8 million minutes watched in its first week in launch.

Wanting past the highest 10 in unique motion pictures, titles with triple-digit will increase over the earlier week embody Paramount+’s “Little Wing,” with a 258% improve to 22.1 million minutes watched; Netflix’s “A Jazzman’s Blues,” from director Tyler Perry, with a 378% acquire to 21.9 million; Netflix rom-com “A Vacationer’s Information to Love,” 124% acquire to 18.3 million; and Netflix’s household action-adventure drama “True Spirit,” which soared to 249% to 17.1 million, per Luminate.

Within the TV sequence warmth, the spectacular performer of the week was Peacock’s “Apples By no means Fall” restricted sequence starring Annette Bening and Sam Neill. The sequence hit the No. 5 slot for the week of March 15-21 with 300.9 million minutes considered, up 1,947% from its efficiency on March 14, its first day of launch.

Netflix’s Spanish-language drama sequence “Bandidos,” launched March 13, was one other massive mover. The comedy actioner gained 304.1% to 204.2 million minutes watched to land at No. 8 for the week. The Dick Wolf-produced docu-series “Murder: New York” rounded out the week’s high 10 amongst streaming unique TV sequence. The five-part Netflix sequence, which dropped March 20, amassed 183.3 million minutes watched after two days in launch.

Wanting past the TV sequence high 10, the primary season of the much-praised comedy sequence “Girls5eva” jumped as much as No. 13 because the sequence relocated to Netflix from Peacock in tandem with its Season 3 debut on March 14. With the transfer to Netflix’s extra broadly trafficked platform, Season 1 of the sequence that debuted in 2021 on Peacock noticed a 968% week-to-week acquire to 116.6 million minutes watched. Season 1 and Season 2 of “Girls5eva” are additionally nonetheless obtainable on Peacock, which additionally helped increase the numbers.

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(Pictured high: “The Gents”)