An installment from the A Quiet Place franchise has become a streaming hit a year later. The franchise began with the 2018 movie of the same name, which was directed and co-written by John Krasinski, who also stars alongside Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe as a family who are attempting to survive quietly in an isolated farmhouse in a world besieged by alien monsters that hunt their prey via sound. The movie was a smash hit, grossing $341 million against its $17 million budget.
The success of the original movie spawned multiple other A Quiet Place movies. This was the case even though A Quiet Place Part II was delayed amid global theatrical shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The 2021 sequel, which was also directed by Krasinski and features the return of the main cast alongside franchise newcomers Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou, was also a success, grossing $297.4 million against its roughly $60 million budget and thus allowing the franchise to continue with further installments.
A Quiet Place: Day One Is A Netflix Success
The Movie Originally Debuted In 2024
A Quiet Place: Day One has become a global hit on Netflix. It was a critical and commercial success upon its 2024 debut, earning a Certified Fresh 86% Rotten Tomatoes score and grossing $261.8 million worldwide against its $67 million budget. The prequel stars Lupita Nyong’o as Sam, a woman with terminal cancer who ends up in the middle of New York City when the sound-hunting monsters crash-land on Earth and who goes on a mission for one last slice of pizza. The A Quiet Place: Day One cast also includes Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, and Djimon Hounsou.
A Quiet Place: Day One was written and directed by Pig‘s Michael Sarnoski.
Netflix has now calculated their global Top 10 chart of the most-watched English-language movies on the platform for the week of March 17 through 23. A Quiet Place: Day One has debuted on the chart at No. 5 with 5.7 million viewers accumulating a total of 9.5 viewing hours. It has only come in below two other recent theatrical releases, namely 2024’s Kraven the Hunter (No. 4) and 2025’s Den of Thieves: Pantera (No. 3), and two new Netflix originals, The Twister: Caught in the Storm (No. 2) and The Electric State (No. 1).
This has been the case even though it is not available on Netflix in the United States, where it is streaming on MGM+, Prime Video, and Paramount+. All 30 countries in which it is in the Top 10 are in South America, including Nicaragua, Paraguay, and El Salvador, where it is No. 1.
What This Means For A Quiet Place
It Could Help The Franchise Get Back On Track
The streaming success of Day One compounding with its theatrical success likely means that the future of the A Quiet Place franchise is secure. This is good news, as the upcoming A Quiet Place Part III was originally announced with a 2025 release date before being removed from the schedule. So far, development on the project seems to have stalled, but if the prequel can continue to thrive on streaming, it could spur the filmmakers behind the new sequel to make more substantial progress.
Source: Netflix
