A comedy remake starring Queen Latifah has landed on a major streaming chart more than two decades after its original release. Queen Latifah is an actor and recording artist who was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2003 for her performance in the film adaptation of the musical Chicago, which won Best Picture that year.

While she is best known in the modern age for the TV series The Equalizer, which ran for five seasons from 2021 to 2025, there is a wide variety of other Queen Latifah movies that have found success.

This includes multiple installments of the $3.2 billion Ice Age franchise (in which she voices the mammoth Ellie), the musical Hairspray, and comedies such as What Happens in Vegas, Valentine’s Day, Scary Movie 3, and her remake that is now connecting with audiences at home.

Taxi Is Surging On Streaming

2004’s Taxi is now a Netflix hit, many years later. The movie, which was directed by Tim Story (Barbershop, Fantastic Four, Ride Along), starred Queen Latifah as Belle Williams, a taxi driver who ends up being conscripted into catching bank robbers with Detective Andrew Washburn (Jimmy Fallon), whose driver’s license was recently revoked.

The movie is a remake of the French comedy of the same name, which was written by Luc Besson and received four French-language sequels.

The ensemble cast of the action-comedy also included Gisele Bündchen, Patton Oswalt, Ann-Margret, Ana Cristina de Oliveira, and Jennifer Esposito. Although the Tim Story movie was poorly reviewed (it currently has a Rotten Tomatoes score of just 9%), it was a theatrical success, grossing $71.3 million worldwide against a reported budget of $25 million.

Netflix has shared their global chart of the Top 10 most-watched English-language movies on the streaming platform for the week of August 18 through August 24. Even though it is not available in the United States, Taxi landed at No. 7 on the chart with 4.3 million views adding up to 7 million viewing hours.

Taxi has found a place on the chart above several newer releases, including 2014’s Blended (No. 10) and 2021’s PAW Patrol: The Movie (No. 8). Additionally, the movie is in the Top 10 in 50 individual regions across five continents, taking No. 1 in Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas, and Jamaica.

What This Means For Taxi

The fact that Taxi is trending globally in spite of the fact that it is not currently available in the U.S., which is one of Netflix’s biggest markets, underscores the fact that Queen Latifah is still a viable star of features, even though she has primarily been seen on the small screen in the 2020s.

This is good news for any Queen Latifah movies that are coming after the ending of The Equalizer. She has several franchise movies in the works that could prove this point even further. Those тιтles are Ice Age: Boiling Point, which is set to debut in 2027, and Girls Trip 2, which is in development.