No Apple TV+ movie ever had a bigger opening weekend than The Gorge<\/em>, according to the streaming service. It seems viewers were drawn to the romantic action thriller starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller. Perhaps it\u2019s the film\u2019s mysterious hook.<\/p>\n And this wasn\u2019t the only thing Apple TV+ had to crow about \u2014 it revealed on Wednesday that Severance<\/em> had just become its most popular series ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n Apple TV+ created multiple hit series, not just Severance<\/em>. But it\u2019s been less successful with films. Killers of the Flower Moon<\/em><\/a> and CODA<\/em><\/a> did well, but nearly all the streaming service\u2019s attempts to make a big audience-pleaser have fallen flat.<\/p>\n But its most recent movie breaks the trend of recent lackluster offerings.<\/p>\n \u201cApple Original Films\u2019 The Gorge<\/em> has become the biggest film launch<\/a> in the young streamer\u2019s history,\u201d Deadline<\/em> reported on Thursday. \u201cThe company confirms it is the biggest film premiere in Apple TV+ history, driving double-digit growth globally for the service and boosting new viewers by +80%, weekend over weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n That means the The Gorge<\/em> beat out the crime thriller Wolfs<\/em><\/a> starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt; the spy thriller Argylle<\/em><\/a> starring Henry Cavill and Bryce Dallas Howard; the action romance Ghosted<\/em><\/a> starring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas; and others. But none of those did all that well with audiences, so Apple\u2019s latest had a fairly low bar to jump over.<\/p>\n The premise could be the secret of the new film\u2019s success. The Apple TV+ teaser synopsis<\/a> for the film says:<\/p>\n \u201cTwo highly-trained operatives (Miles Teller<\/a> and Anya Taylor-Joy<\/a>) are appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a vast and highly classified gorge, protecting the world from an undisclosed, mysterious evil that lurks within. They bond from a distance while trying to stay vigilant in defending against an unseen enemy. When the cataclysmic threat to humanity is revealed to them, they must work together in a test of both their physical and mental strength to keep the secret in the gorge before it\u2019s too late.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThe Gorge<\/em> got the biggest premiere weekend ever for an Apple TV+ movie<\/h2>\n
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