‘Mortal Kombat’ has emerged as the victor of the 2021 Warner Bros. released films on HBO Max with the most viewers. Towards the end of 2020, Warner Bros. parent company WarnerMedia decided to premiere their entire 2021 film slate in theaters and on HBO Max alongside Wonder Woman 1984 for Christmas of 2020. The move was a controversial one but one that Warner Bros. saw as a way to not only drive subscribers for their new streaming service but also as a way to give audiences the option to choose how to see movies safely during the uncertain Covid-19 crisis.
Warner Bros. released a wide array of films on HBO Max through the year, from highly anticipated franchise installments like The Matrix Ressurection and The Suicide Squad, to adult-skewing films like King Richard and The Many Saints of Newark, to family-friendly offerings like Tom & Jerry and Space Jam: A New Legacy. While some films like Godzilla vs Kong and Dune were box office hits, others like In The Heights and The Suicide Squad suffered at the box office for being available to stream at home. With Warner Bros. and HBO Max's experimental year now over, the streaming numbers have been gathered, and it appears the winner is Mortal Kombat.
According to Business Insider, of the entire 2021 Warner Bros. slate released on HBO Max, Mortal Kombat had the best weekend of any of the Warner Bros. releases on HBO Max with a total of 3.8 million viewers. The data was provided by SambaTV, which had records for all Warner Bros. films released on HBO Max in their first four days of release based on a household watching at least five minutes of the movie, and the data is limited to connected-TV devices in the US, such as Roku and gaming consoles.
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