If you grew up on Ivan Reitman’s “Ghostbusters”, you have good memories of the director’s “kindergarten”, or have been swept away in the “Space Jam” produced by Reitman in the 90s, you may not know the last film on which he called the gunshots. Reitman, who died in 2022, directed his latest film in 2014 with “Draft Day”, a sports drama featuring Kevin Costner as a fictitious director of Cleveland Browns, Sonny Weaver Jr.
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The film sees Weaver preparing for the titular event while dealing with personal events which are quite large in its own right. Not only his own boss, the owner of the Anthony Molina team (Frank Langella), wants to fire him, but his somewhat secret girlfriend Ali Parker (Jennifer Garner) is also pregnant. In the midst of all this, Sonny concludes an agreement offered by the Seattle Seahawks which gives him as well as the Browns the choice of draft in the first round. Did he make the right choice? Well, this is really where a large part of the tension comes from, Sonny worried about her selection as the rapid project approaches.
“Draft Day” was not quite the critical triumph Reitman surely hoped that his final film could be, but that behaved well with criticism. Unfortunately, the same could not be said for consumers, because the “day of draft” turned out to be a commercial flop arriving in theaters on April 11, 2014. But I am sure that Reitman would at least be a little encouraged to hear that a decade later, hearing streaming would have rediscovered his latest film and would have sent “Draft Day” in the Netflix graphics.
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The day of the draft is a first choice on Netflix
“Draft Day” may not have collected a stellar critical response, but she really reached the classification / classification of the film of the films of Ivan Reitman, with Scott Thomas Writing, “the script is undoubtedly Zippy. […] Then there is Ivan Reitman, who considers good to add tips and fluid camera movements that echo the hyper-watering of sports diffusion. “The film has certainly become a cult favorite for fans of the National Football League too.
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According to FlixpatrolA site that follows audience data on all streaming and digital platforms, “Draft Day” is already doing well on Netflix after its beginnings on April 1, 2025 on the streamer. From April 2, the film is the new number of the table of the most watched films in the United States. It is a very good start for “Draft Day”, especially since so few people saw it when it released in theaters. We will have to see where things go from here, but there is every chance that the forgotten sports drama of Kevin Costner could take first place, given the other films that make the top 10 in the United States at the moment.
Can the day of the draft continue to climb the Netflix cards?
When he was released in theaters, “Draft Day” did $ 29.8 million On a budget of 25 million dollars, guaranteeing its status as a flop of good flop. This is not the best way for a director of Ivan Reitman’s stature to go out, but it is not as if the film is a complete failure. Critics were not upset by the film but it is 60% Rotten tomatoes Score, which is certainly not the worst note that we have seen for a film making the Netflix charts. (“The Electric State” was netflix’s Most Expensive Movie Ever and Recently Hit Number One With A Truly Awful 16% RT Score.) Critics Weren’t Too Impressed With The Script, But Costner and His Co-Stars’ Performances Did Receive, and this is Clearly One of Those Movies that Works best if you will be overlook the logical inconsistencies and embrace What Critic David Jenkins Once called the “drama inducing punch”.
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As such, Reitman’s film is surely in a chance to go through the ranking, and can even be able to take the number one position, given the current topper, Netflix Original “The Life List”, is a 47%. That said, it is not as if you needed good criticism scores to be a Hit of Netflix, because successive failures continue to go to the top while superior quality projects such as the brilliant “adolescence” also triumphs. However, the “draft day” will have to fight a fairly difficult competition; He is currently under establishment of the Netflix charts by the horror film of the A24, “Talk Me”.
