, the comedy starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer, debuted at No. 1 on Nielsen’s U.S. streaming ratings chart for the week of April 5. Almost 1 billion minutes were streamed of the pic, pacing it well ahead of No. 2-rankedAlso notable during the April 5-April 11 period was the debut of Amazon’s horror anthology, which dropped all 10 episodes on the streaming site at once and finished No. 7 overall on Nielsen’s rankings. Its 439 million minutes viewed was good for No.
Still, Thunder Force was the best streaming start for an original movie since Coming 2 America boasted 1.4 billion minutes for its debut week March 1-7. That gave Amazon Prime its first No. 1 finish in the weekly rankings.