‘El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie’ Broke 6.5 Million Viewers on Its Opening Weekend

As reported by Deadline, “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie” drew an average-minute audience rating of 6.5 million in its first three days, which totals out to around 8.2 million U.S.

viewers over its opening weekend.

While Netflix is traditionally tight-lipped about its viewership numbers and what they mean, this certainly has to be seen as a success for the Aaron Paul-led, Vince Gilligan-directed follow-up film to AMC’s “Breaking Bad” — especially on top of the established critical success of the film.According to Nielsen’s Svod Content Ratings service, “El Camino’s” average minute audience during its opening weekend was 6.5 million viewers, with 2.6 million of those viewers (its biggest audience) coming on its October 11 release date.

Over those first three days, 36 percent of the average minute audience were also young adults in the 18-34 demographic.

For perspective, “Breaking Bad” the television series didn’t hit the 5 million viewer

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