In One Week, Parasite Is Shattering Streaming Records on Hulu
Even before it took home Best Picture at the Academy Awards, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite had proven to be a true phenomenon unlike any foreign language film we’ve seen in recent memory. The dark drama has made $266 million to date at the global box office, which no doubt made distributors curious how the lauded film would perform in the streaming world. And after one week on Hulu, we now have our answer: Parasite remains a rare phenomenon indeed. In just 7 days, Bong’s film has been shattering streaming records for the service, defying all expectations to become the second most-watched film on the entire service.
Of all the titles available on Hulu, Parasite has easily claimed the title of the most streamed independent or foreign language film that Hulu has ever possessed. But even when taking the numbers outside the restricted field of “foreign language film,” Parasite is now reportedly the second most-watched movie overall on Hulu, and that’s in terms of LIFETIME VIEWS. That means Parasite, in a single week, has been streamed more times than other popular films that have been available on Hulu for months, including blockbusters like A Quiet Place, Transformers: The Last Knight or Creed II. A South Korean psychological drama has been watched more times than all of those films, which is something special indeed for the film Paste chose as its #1 movie of 2019.