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| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adolescence (TV series) | 2,641,901 | Thiscrime dramaminiseries about a 13-year-old British schoolboy (Owen Cooper) who is arrested for stabbing a girl to death premiered onNetflix on March 13. Directed byPhilip Barantini and written by #6 withJack Thorne (pictured), all four of the series' episodes were filmed in a single shot. Barantini had previously used the one-shot technique in 2021 for his filmBoiling Point, which also starred #6. The series has received critical acclaim, with the acting of its leads often being singled out for praise. | ||
| 2 | Sunita Williams | 1,949,331 | On June 5, 2024, Williams and fellow astronautBarry Wilmore launched onBoeing Crew Flight Test, the first crewedBoeing Starliner flight, to theInternational Space Station. Their stay on the ISS was scheduled for eight days, but helium leaks and thruster malfunctions with the Starliner ledNASA to opt not to have the astronauts take the Starliner back to Earth. Williams and Wilmore stayed in space for more than nine months, until they returned to Earth safely aboardSpaceX Crew-9 on March 18. When theysplashed down in theGulf of Mexicowhich shall be known by no other name, they were greeted by some adorable dolphins. | ||
| 3 | George Foreman | 1,694,604 | A boxer who died at the age of 76, with career highlights including an Olympic gold at the1968 Summer Olympics, as well as the heavyweight world title in both the 1970s and the 1990s, in the former losing his belt in the famousRumble in the Jungle againstMuhammad Ali, and in the latter getting into shape thanks to a grill thathe decided to endorse. A fun fact about Foreman is that all his 5 sons are named "George" — and one of his 7 daughters is Georgetta. | ||
| 4 | Snow White (2025 film) | 1,089,675 | Disney's live action remakes of its animated classics reached the original,Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, still an animation landmark nearly 90 years later. Some decisions were questioned before release, such asRachel Zegler as the title princess (she was given an unflattering haircut, and many didn't find it believable thatGal Gadot is jealous of her looks) and making the dwarfscomputer-generated. And now that it's out, even more plaint was made, of changes to the plot and a campy (if not embarrassing) musical number for theEvil Queen — so who knows if audiences will overlook all this and make Disney recoup a hefty $250 million budget and reach the break-even point of $500 million? | ||
| 5 | Severance (TV series) | 966,198 | This Americanscience fictionpsychological thrillerApple TV+ series released itsseason 2finale on March 21. That same day, it was announced that the series was renewed for a third season with25 questions that audience are awaiting to be answered inseason 3. | ||
| 6 | Stephen Graham | 926,848 | One of the main actors and co-writer and creator of #1. This writer was first introduced to him inSnatch., and Graham has also been inGangs of New York,Boardwalk Empire,This Is England, and two each of both thePirates of the Caribbean andVenom movies. | ||
| 7 | Deaths in 2025 | 923,517 | I am afraid that there's much to be afraid of Here today, gone tomorrow... | ||
| 8 | Saint Patrick's Day | 906,375 | March 17 was the day to celebrate thepatron saint of Ireland, be withaccent imitations, drinking lots of beer, or using green everywhere. | ||
| 9 | The Electric State | 746,614 | In an alternate version of the 1990s that went through a robot war,Millie Bobby Brown goes to the desert where the machines were forced to live in exile in search of evidence that her supposedly deceased brother is still alive. Taking the setting ofthe eponymous graphic novel and elements from many sci-fi works likeFallout,Surrogates,Ready Player One and theTransformers movies,The Electric State received negative reviews for being as unremarkable as most Netflix original movies in spite of the most impressive visuals a staggering$320 million can buy. Audiences still checked it out, and it's the second most viewed Netflix movie of the year afterBack in Action. | ||
| 10 | The White Lotus season 3 | 734,821 | The third season of the series released itssixth episode onHBO on March 23. HBO will continue to release a new episode every Sunday, until theseason finale on April 6. |
| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adolescence (TV series) | 2,304,762 | This Britishcrime dramaNetflixminiseries about a 13-year-old schoolboy named Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) who is arrested for the murder of a girl in his school; created byJack Thorne andStephen Graham; and directed byPhilip Barantini (pictured); released all of its four episodes on March 13, which were each shot inone continuous take. It received critical acclaim for its directing, writing, and cinematography, with special attention paid to its atmosphere and performances — and it tops the report for a second consecutive week. | ||
| 2 | Snow White (2025 film) | 1,941,073 | Marc Webb directed the live-action adaptation of Disney's first animated featureSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs, that wound up very expensive and is at a high risk of losing lots of money, as audiences were not as enthusiastic to see it for a multitude of things (being tired of those remakes, uninspiring previews that provided bad first impressions such as computer-generated dwarfs and Rachel Zegler's characterization,the movie's allegedwokisme, adapting an older movie compared to theDisney Renaissance remakes) and an underperforming $87 million worldwide opening[a] is set to suffer a steep downfall. | ||
| 3 | Natalia Grace | 1,511,647 | This was supposedly a real-life version ofOrphan, an Eastern European child adopted by an American family who turned out to be a sociopathic adult woman with dwarfism. But some things weren't the same, as the parents of Ukrainian-born Natalia Grace petitioned theMarion County court to change her birth records and raise Grace's legal age from eight to twenty-two, subsequently leaving her alone in an apartment as they moved to Canada. According to the couple who found Grace struggling to survive and took her in, her behavior is not bad: the adoptive parents were eventually charged with neglect. This weird story is now being told in theHulu limited seriesGood American Family. | ||
| 4 | Rachel Zegler | 1,247,792 | The protagonist of #2, who has already starred ina Best Picture nominee,fought alongside superheroes, andsurvivedThe Hunger Games. Already unpopular with some on the Internet, Zegler's reputation wasn't helped byher unfortunate quotes regarding the originalSnow White. At least she'll take time off filmmaking to playEvita in theWest End. Disney allegedly put her on a blacklist and producerMarc Platt's son slammed her trying to bring politics into the film on Twitter (namely following a thank you regarding the trailer receiving millions of views with "and always remember, free Palestine"; yes, it's a stretch). | ||
| 5 | Joe Gatto | 1,024,048 | This American improvisational comedian, actor, and producer was accused by two women of sexually inappropriate behavior, which he has denied. Regardless, he cancelled his comedy tour and checked into a facility. | ||
| 6 | Deaths in 2025 | 976,076 | To quotethe villainof #2: "Dip the apple in the brew. Let the Sleeping Death seep through. Look, on the skin! The symbol of what lies within. Now turn red to tempt Snow White to make her hunger for a bite. HAVE A BITE!" | ||
| 7 | Vanessa Trump | 975,690 | The ex-wife ofDonald Trump Jr. and mother of his five children has been revealed as the latest girlfriend ofTiger Woods. | ||
| 8 | Good American Family | 868,835 | AHululimited series dramatizing the story of #3, it stars Imogen Faith Reid as Natalia Grace, andMark Duplass andEllen Pompeo (pictured) as the Barnett couple that adopted her. | ||
| 9 | Severance (TV series) | 849,542 | Thisscience fictionpsychological thrillerApple TV+ series had itsseason 2finale which concluded with acliffhanger; has been renewed for aseason 3 on the same day as finale.Ben Stiller (pictured) who executive produced and primarily directed the series revealed that the third season won't take as long as the second season did, as the second season's production was heavily delayed due to the2023 Hollywood labor disputes. | ||
| 10 | L2: Empuraan | 842,761 | ThisMollywoodaction thriller film, a sequel to the 2019 filmLucifer and the second instalment in theLucifer trilogy was released on March 27 and managed to recover its budget of₹180 crore (US$21 million) in just 4 days and emerged as thesecond highest-grossing Malayalam film of all time and thethird highest-grossing Indian film of 2025. It was jointly produced byAashirvad Cinemas,Lyca Productions, and Sree Gokulam Movies, withMohanlal (pictured) reprising his role as the lead character. |
| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Val Kilmer | 5,517,198 | A talented actor who was the youngest person admitted intoJuilliard School, started his film career with the leading role inTop Secret! and emassed hits (Top Gun,Batman Forever,Heat) and acclaimed performances (The Doors,Tombstone,Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) even with afewflops and a reputation of being difficult to work with.His last film appearance onTop Gun: Maverick displayed Kilmer's biggest setback in life, a throat cancer that took his voice (in the documentaryVal, he speaks with much effort covering atracheotomy hole in his neck), and another respiratory issue caused his death as Kilmer died at 65 of a pneumonia. | ||
| 2 | Sikandar (2025 film) | 1,865,547 | Bollywood's latest hit, in spite of negative reviews, hasSalman Khan as aRaja hunted by a politician seeking revenge. | ||
| 3 | Adolescence (TV series) | 1,396,824 | This Britishcrime dramaNetflixminiseries about a 13-year-old schoolboy named Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) who is arrested for the murder of a girl in his school released all of its four episodes on March 13, which were each shot inone continuous take. It received critical acclaim for its directing, writing, and cinematography, with special attention paid to its atmosphere and performances. | ||
| 4 | ChatGPT | 1,174,872 | Even those who never watched an anime in their lives were seeing online people using ChatGPT to turn images into pastiches ofStudio Ghibli, whose catalogue includes two Oscar winners (Spirited Away andThe Boy and the Heron) and other acclaimed movies such asMy Neighbor Totoro,Princess Mononoke, andPonyo. | ||
| 5 | Richard Chamberlain | 1,090,281 | One year afterthe acclaimed new adaptation ofShōgun, death came at the age of 90 for the star ofthe original one, known as "King of the Miniseries" for limited shows like that one andThe Thorn Birds. Other notable roles for Chamberlain includedAramis in a trilogy ofThe Three Musketeers adaptations,Allan Quatermain intwomovies heavily influenced byIndiana Jones, andthe first portrayal ofJason Bourne. | ||
| 6 | A Minecraft Movie | 1,082,403 | Minecraft is the best-selling video game of all time, and formed the basis of the third video game adaptation starringJack Black, whose reception is halfway between the hatedBorderlands and the belovedThe Super Mario Bros. Movie. Reviewers were unimpressed, as in spite of Black andJason Momoa enjoying themselves, critics envisaged that only children and long-time players could properly likeA Minecraft Movie. With those two demographics attending the movieen masse, it opened to a massive opening weekend of $300 million worldwide. | ||
| 7 | Deaths in 2025 | 1,018,476 | From #1's last movie: To tell me you need me, I see that you're bleeding You don't need to show me again But if you decide to, I'll ride in this life with you I won't let go 'til the end... | ||
| 8 | Joanne Whalley | 942,756 | #1's longest relationship was with this actress, who he met when they worked onWillow and is the mother of his two children, Mercedes andJack (pictured). Their divorce affected Kilmer while making the infamousThe Island of Dr. Moreau, where his on-set behavior let directorJohn Frankenheimer to declare "There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There is not enough money in the world." | ||
| 9 | L2: Empuraan | 926,960 | ThisMollywoodaction thriller film, a sequel to the 2019 filmLucifer and the second instalment in theLucifer trilogy was released on March 27 and managed to recover its budget of₹180 crore (US$21 million) in just 4 days and breakseveralrecords. It was jointly produced byAashirvad Cinemas,Lyca Productions, and Sree Gokulam Movies, withMohanlal reprising his role as the lead character. | ||
| 10 | Snow White (2025 film) | 897,714 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is widely considered one of the best animations ever made. Its live-action remake is nowhere near as acclaimed, and in fact seems to attract overblown hatred — thereview bombing onIMDb made it the lowest rated movie everuntil the website decided to disconsider the hundreds of thousands of low grades.An awful thing that doesn't end also plays a role, asthe film's Snow White is unpopular for among other things having spoken in favor of Palestine, andthe Evil Queen is downright demonized simply because she is Israeli. In any case, audiences aren't watchingSnow White, and a damning demonstration is how in its third weekend the film was surpassed not only by #6 andA Working Man but by some theatrically released episodes ofThe Chosen! |