Netflix Top 10s: Josh Hartnett’s ‘Below’ and Ben Affleck’s ‘Animals’ Top The Charts

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Welcome to your weekly breakdown of the biggest hits and misses on Netflix. Every Tuesday, Netflix updates its global viewing metrics, and today we’re diving into the Top 10 charts for the week of October 5th to October 11th, 2026. This week’s data gives us a fascinating mixed bag to analyze. We’re tracking a highly scrutinized blockbuster debut from Ben Affleck, a new Josh Hartnett horror-thriller series proving to be a bright spot for the genre, and an impressive, gravity-defying second-week surge for East of Eden. Plus, we’re seeing the sheer, undeniable power of licensed content completely taking over the movie side.
As we’ve tracked all week, the Ice Age movies, arriving as part of a new Disney licensing deal, have topped the charts worldwide and took up half of the available spots on the English-language list this week. Not bad at all; we’ll see how many stay next week. 
A few big omissions this week from the Top 10s: Haunted Hotel, which returned for Season 2, didn’t get into the English TV Top 10s, nor did the second season of Is It Cake? Halloween. Netflix Poland’s Less of a Stranger was missing from the non-English movie list, with Real Mean (Season 2) also skipping the TV side. Leading a number of comedy documentaries, Who Is Martin Mull? is also absent from the movie chart.

Animals Debuts at #1 on English Movies 
Ben Affleck’s new movie Animals has been released with a bit of a cloud over it, it must be said. Due to Affleck’s involvement with an AI company, which he sold to Netflix, many headlines and Twitter posts from handy aggregators who strip context like there’s no tomorrow have led to people coming in with preconceived notions about this particular title. It also didn’t help that most reviews, some often tainted by AI use, were on the whole mixed to bad. 
Nevertheless, the movie did top the Netflix charts with 23.8M views. That’s a respectable start, though it doesn’t quite match the heights of Affleck’s early 2026 movie, The Rip, which hit 41.6M in its opening weekend, but it lands between The Whisper Man and Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.

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Netflix Viewership Comparison – The Rip, War Machine, Apex, Thrash, The Last House and 17 more Netflix titles (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 22 Netflix titles: The Rip, War Machine, Apex, Thrash, The Last House, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, Animals, The Whisper Man, 72 HOURS, Office Romance, Voicemails for Isabelle, People We Meet on Vacation, UNABOMBER, Swapped, Little Brother, Joe’s College Road Trip, Ladies First, Remarkably Bright Creatures, Doing Life, Roommates, Don’t Say Good Luck, Best of the Best. Combined total: 445,500,000 views.

Netflix cumulative views ranking for The Rip, War Machine, Apex, Thrash, The Last House and 17 more Netflix titles over 1 weeks.

Title
Opening Week Views
Rank

The Rip
41,600,000
1

War Machine
39,300,000
2

Apex
38,200,000
3

Thrash
37,700,000
4

The Last House
27,500,000
5

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
25,300,000
6

Animals
23,800,000
7

The Whisper Man
23,200,000
8

72 HOURS
22,100,000
9

Office Romance
20,900,000
10

Voicemails for Isabelle
17,500,000
11

People We Meet on Vacation
17,200,000
12

UNABOMBER
16,400,000
13

Swapped
15,500,000
14

Little Brother
14,000,000
15

Joe’s College Road Trip
12,500,000
16

Ladies First
11,900,000
17

Remarkably Bright Creatures
10,400,000
18

Doing Life
9,300,000
19

Roommates
8,800,000
20

Don’t Say Good Luck
8,100,000
21

Best of the Best
4,300,000
22

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