Reelgood Streaming Top 10: The Devil Wears Prada Climbs to #1 as Sequel Opens in Theaters
Here’s your Reelgood Streaming Top 10 (movies & TV) snapshot for April 30 to May 6:
The 2006 Devil Wears Prada climbs from #5 to #1 on Disney+ the same week its theatrical sequel opens in U.S. theaters. The Devil Wears Prada 2 released May 1 in 4,150 theaters and posted a $76.7 million opening weekend, the fourth-biggest debut for any 2026 film. A 19-year-old catalog title surging to the top of a streaming chart on the strength of an in-theaters sequel is a clean read on how theatrical events move catalog demand on subscription platforms.
Five of the ten titles are tied to a content drop within the last eight days. Widow’s Bay debuts at #4 on Apple TV following its April 29 premiere. Wuthering Heights enters at #5 on HBO Max after its May 1 streaming release. Netflix places three new entries in slots six through eight: Apex at #6 in its second week of charting (down from #1 last week), Man on Fire at #7 from its April 30 series premiere, and Swapped at #8 from its May 1 streaming release. Daredevil: Born Again enters at #10 in the week of its May 5 season 2 finale on Disney+.
Six streaming services split the Top 10. Netflix places three titles, Disney+ and HBO Max place two each, and Prime Video, Apple TV, and MGM+ each place one.
This past week’s highlights:
- The Devil Wears Prada (Disney+) closes the catalog-revival loop: Last week’s chart caught the front end of the pattern, with the 2006 original entering at #5 on Disney+ as the sequel moved through its premiere cycle. This week, with The Devil Wears Prada 2 opening to $76.7 million in 4,150 U.S. theaters on May 1 (almost three times the original’s $27.5 million 2006 opening), the original climbs four spots to #1. The 2026 chart now has two distinct examples of an external event lifting a catalog title: The Passion of the Christ at #7 on DirecTV Stream during Easter weekend (calendar-driven), and The Devil Wears Prada at #1 on Disney+ during a sequel’s opening weekend (release-driven). Different drivers, same shape in the data.
- The May 1 release pile-up: Five of the ten titles entered the chart on the strength of a release inside the chart window: Widow’s Bay (April 29, Apple TV), Man on Fire (April 30, Netflix), Wuthering Heights (May 1, HBO Max), Swapped (May 1, Netflix), and Daredevil: Born Again‘s finale (May 5, Disney+). The compressed schedule echoes the April 8 to 12 window that drove the Big Mistakes-led reshuffle three weeks ago, when seven of ten titles were new entries. The number is smaller this week, but the dynamic is the same.
- Apex (Netflix) falls from #1 to #6: Charlize Theron’s survival thriller drops five spots in its second week on the chart, displaced by The Devil Wears Prada. Apex released April 24 on Netflix and held the top spot through the week of April 23 to 29.
- Disney+’s three-week climb: Disney+ places two titles this week (#1 The Devil Wears Prada and #10 Daredevil: Born Again), after placing one last week and zero across the three weeks of April 2 to 22. The platform takes both ends of the chart on the strength of two distinct events: the theatrical sequel pulling audiences to the original on streaming, and the May 5 Daredevil: Born Again season 2 finale closing eight weekly episodes that began March 24.
- Weekly drama cadence and From on MGM+: The Boys (Prime Video, #2), Euphoria (HBO Max, #3), and From (MGM+, #9) all hold Top 10 positions while delivering weekly episodes inside the chart window. From is in its second consecutive week on the chart following its season 4 premiere on April 19. MGM+ did not appear on any of the three published Reelgood weekly charts covering April 2 through April 22, making the back-to-back placement notable for a service that rarely registers on a Top 10 tracked across 300+ platforms.
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The Reelgood Streaming Top 10 ranking uses first-party data from interactions with movies and TV shows on the platform in real time from its users in the U.S.
The methodology includes the following criteria:
- Only titles available on SVOD (Subscription Video on Demand) and/or AVOD (Ad-supported Video on Demand) platforms are included.
- Rankings are based solely on organic interactions, with any promoted activity excluded.
- The service listed alongside each title reflects the platform that received the highest number of interactions for that title.
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