Olivier Marchal, the king of Netflix
There would be a bit of the scent of in the air French connection ? A week after going online on Netflix, December 6, 2023, Olivier Marchal’s new series Peace Massilia enjoyed great success abroad. Currently The first series in FranceSince then this violent detective series has also been widely seen internationally Coast of Blood (its English title) has accumulated more than 5.6 million views between 6 and 10 December and beyond 29 million hours watched.
A performance that therefore succeeds the most watched non-English Netflix series in the world last week, ahead of the Swedish miniseries An almost normal family and the first season of My demon.
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Peace Massilia very far ahead Tapie
Regard 4th best throw for a European series from June 2021, behind the untouchable Polish series of 2022 Flood (10.5 million views in its first 4 days), Italian Lidia commands (6.7 million) and Danish October (5.7 million). Peace Massilia it is therefore well ahead of the French series Christmas flow AND Tapiewhich they had respectively accumulated 3.9 AND 1.4 million views for their launch.
This success is no surprise, since the development of Peace Massilia follows the success of Olivier Marchal’s feature film Bronx, which told a crime novel in Marseille, and the similarities between the two productions are numerous. In March 2021, five months after its addition to the Netflix catalog, the counter appeared 80 million viewshaving passed Top 3 in the US and Top 7 in the world for a non-English language film.
Olivier Marchal then explained to FilmsActu:
Netflix is releasing Bronx as a series. Kamel Guemra is responsible for the writing. He’s really talented. I should produce the 6 52 minute episodes in Marseille. We begin the series where the film ends. Filming is scheduled for early 2022 if all goes well. The series will also go beyond the film. It’s really violent and trashy.
In France and abroad, Olivier Marchal seems to have found the recipe for Netflix’s success!
Source: Cine Serie
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