‘Enola Holmes 3’ draws 20.3 million views in first five days on Netflix, Deadline reports

Netflix’s Enola Holmes franchise returned with a third film last week, and early audience data reported by Deadline suggests the latest installment logged 20.3 million views during its first five days on the streaming service, a window that included the July 4 holiday.

Deadline’s report ties the figure to Netflix’s standard approach for public viewership tracking in which hours viewed are converted into views, and it notes that the second Enola Holmes movie generated 64 million hours viewed over its first five days when it debuted in early November 2022. Netflix’s own conversion in that period yields an estimated 29.8 million views for the second film’s comparable opening window, making the reported start for Enola Holmes 3 a decline of about 32%.

The report also says Netflix did not report viewership when the original Enola Holmes film debuted in 2020, limiting direct comparison across the full run of the franchise. Deadline frames the opening as steady but not matching the higher benchmark set by the second movie, in part because the franchise and star are built around a high-profile launch.

Deadline compared the reported Enola Holmes 3 start with other recent Netflix film releases, citing an opening for Voicemails for Isabelle that drew 31 million views in its premiere weekend and noting that Office Romance opened with 20.9 million views. With Enola Holmes 3 at 20.3 million over its first five days, the report places it near the middle of that recent set rather than at the top.

On Netflix’s series side, Deadline reports that I Will Find You, the first American Harlan Coben Netflix series, added 16 million more views in its third week to reach a total of 74.1 million views in only 18 days. The growth, according to the report, keeps the series positioned to potentially enter Netflix’s Top 10 Most Popular English Series list.

Deadline also describes Netflix’s all-time tracking window for its most popular lists, including that His & Hers has recorded 98.2 million views over an initial 91-day period used for Netflix’s all-time lists, and that I Will Find You has 73 days to catch up to that benchmark. The report adds that I Will Find You previously appeared to draw attention from audiences after ranking in a comparable period to earlier Coben adaptations, including Fool Me Once.

Taken together, the figures highlight Netflix’s ongoing emphasis on both film event launches and serial audience retention, with early performance measured by the first days of availability for new titles and week-by-week accumulation for ongoing series. Netflix’s public release cadence and how it manages competing launches may continue to shape which titles hold the largest audience share in the streamer’s reported rankings over the coming weeks.