‘Outbreak’ Is Netflix’s ninth Most-Popular Overall Title in

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold and enormous public occasions are being canceled out of warning, many individuals are staying inside to keep away from the opportunity of catching COVID-19. And whereas these individuals are making an attempt to *keep away* from the outbreak, those that are Netflix subscribers are enthusiastic about *watching* an outbreak.

As of Saturday, the 1995 medical-disaster movie “Outbreak” is the ninth most-popular general title on Netflix within the U.S., in response to the streaming service’s day by day Top 10 listing. The flick, primarily based on Richard Preston’s nonfiction guide “The Hot Zone,” is available in at No. 5 on the platform’s rankings of as we speak’s Top 10 motion pictures.

Starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland and Patrick Dempsey, “Outbreak” tells the story of the unfold of a fictional Ebola-like virus in Zaire and the fictional small city Cedar Creek, California, attributable to a monkey that’s host to the illness.

Netflix customers’ deal with pandemic-centric programming continues on the TV aspect, with docuseries “Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak” at the moment sitting at No. 9 on the streaming service’s most-popular reveals listing.

While this put up is especially about Netflix, right here’s the place we’d like to notice that “Contagion” is listed as some of the fashionable motion pictures within the iTunes Store as we speak. So the correlation between the unfold of COVID-19 and folks’s streaming selections doesn’t appear to be restricted to simply Netflix subscribers.

See Netflix’s Top 10 lists for general titles, TV reveals and flicks beneath. Remember, these are the most-popular within the U.S. as of Saturday.

Overall
1. On My Block
2. Spenser Confidential
3. Lost Girls
4. Love Is Blind
5. The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez
6. The Angry Birds 2 Movie
7. Elite
8. Space Jam
9. Outbreak
10. Dirty Money

TV Shows
1. On My Block
2. Love Is Blind
3. The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez
4. Elite
5. Dirty Money
6. Paradise PD
7. Altered Carbon
8. The Office
9. Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak
10. Locke & Key

Movies
1. Spenser Confidential
2. Lost Girls
3. The Angry Birds 2 Movie
4. Space Jam
5. Outbreak
6. Freaks
7. Kung Fu Panda 2
8. Go Karts
9. Life as We Know It
10. Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back – Evolution