Surprise: This series adapted from a video game does better than The Batman and Uncharted on Canal+

news culture Surprise: This series adapted from a video game does better than The Batman and Uncharted on Canal+

Canal+: the best of the 2022 catalog

Whether in the world of video games or VOD platforms, this beginning of the year 2023 allows us to take stock of the past year. On the video game side, there were, for example, the Game Awards early December as well as recent Steam Awards. In terms of culture, we find, for example, the Canal+ group, which produced a top list of the works in its catalog that sold best in 2022:

1. The torch
2. North ferry
3. Encanto: The Fantastic Madrigal Family
4. Halo
5. The Batman
6. Orders
7. Uncharted
8. Dexter: New Blood
9. Rotten Spoiled
10. tokyo vice

A rather surprising top, which sees season 1 of the Halo series fail at the foot of the podium. She still goes ahead Uncharted and The Batman, two films expected in the spheres of pop-culture. This is the series The torcha parody series of Koh-Lanta which follows the series The flame who takes first place. It is tokyo vicetelevision adaptation of the eponymous book by Jake Adelstein which is in tenth position.

A success which may seem surprising on paper but which can be explained by several reasons. First of all, Canal+ did not specify its method of measurement to establish this classification. It is therefore difficult to know the real commitment of subscribers to the works mentioned above. On the other hand, the Halo series (released in March 2022) was then an exclusive for the platform: it must be understood by this that Canal+ was the only way to view the adaptation when it was released before its arrival on Paramount+. Something that cannot be said for The Batman and Uncharted.

In effect, Uncharted and The Batman were respectively released on February 16, 2022 and March 2, 2022 in the cinema: enough to watch the films in dark rooms before their availability in the Canal + catalog. The film adaptation of the video game generated more than 2.4 million admissions, while the Knight played by Robert Pattinson approached three million admissions. Enough to remove a serious audience from the group, especially since the DVDs and Blu-Rays were then released in stride.

In any case, we must salute the success of the live-action series. A success that allowed the teams to launch the production of season 2 during the month of September.