Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge & Solar Opposites Are Digital Streaming Hits

 

 

Adult animation isn’t just a trend, it’s an industry, a viable one. And while networks and streaming services are learning this, they should take a look at the numbers and see some of the recent successes. For example, the Digital Entertainment Group listed out their top 20 most watched at home films as of May 7th, and you can see here that despite nowhere near the marketing expenditures of other films, Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge, made it into the list. One of the reasons for the film’s success, the fact that it’s excellent, and you can read our review of it here.

See below for the May 7 ‘Watched at Home Top 20’ list:

1. Bad Boys For Life (Sony)
2. Sonic the Hedgehog (Paramount)
3. Star Wars: Ep IX – Skywalker (Disney)
4. Jumanji: The Next Level (Sony)
5. The Gentlemen (STX/Universal, 2019)
6. Dolittle (Universal)
7. The Call of the Wild (Disney, 2020)
8. 1917 (Universal)
9. Little Women (Sony, 2019)
10. Birds of Prey: Harley Quinn (WB)
11. Underwater (Fox)
12. Like a Boss (Paramount)
13. Bloodshot (Sony, 2020)
14. The Way Back (WB, 2020)
15. Ip Man 4: The Finale (Well Go USA)
16. Knives Out (Lionsgate)
17. Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge (WB)
18. Spies in Disguise (Fox)
19. Frozen II (Disney)
20. Fantasy Island (Sony, 2020)

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The hit new Hulu Original adult animation series, Solar Opposites, has emerged as the most-watched Hulu Original comedy premiere to date, and became the #1 SVOD title on the service since launching last week. Co-created by Justin Roiland (Rick & Morty) and Mike McMahan (producer Rick and Morty, Star Trek: Lower Decks), Solar Opposites centers around a team of four aliens escaping their exploding home world, only to crash land into a move-in ready home in suburban America.

Since launching, the fan-favorite series was the #2 most-watched title on Hulu throughout the entire 7-day week, after only being on the service for two of those days,= Additionally, Solar Opposites was also Hulu’s most-watched adult animation title over the weekend, and continues to soar.

A few additional highlights:

• Fans of Solar Opposites devoured the full season over the weekend — more than 40% of viewers who started the series binged all 8 episodes within 2 days of launching.
• Solar Opposites has been certified Fresh with a 96% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes
• More than half of Hulu subscribers have watched Adult Animation over the last year and nearly 40% of Hulu viewers watch Adult Animation every month.

We may not have to wait much longer for more from Mike McMahan as the creator of Star Trek: Lower Decks is teasing a ‘later this year’ premiere for CBS All-Access in a new interview with Inverse that you can read here.

Read our review of Solar Opposites here.