This film with Daniela Melchior has just achieved an impressive record on Prime Video

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The new film starring Portuguese Daniela Melchior achieved the feat of Prime Video’s most watched debut ever.

When a good film premieres in cinemas, it is very common for sessions to be sold out, attracting thousands of spectators. However, this feat becomes more difficult to achieve when the feature film only reaches the small screen, debuting only on streaming platforms. streaming. Recently, an extraordinary feat contradicted this theory, becoming Prime Video’s most watched debut ever.

Prime Video announced that the new film starring Daniela Melchior reached the mark of fifty million viewers, worldwide, in the first two opening weekends. “Road House” arrived in the channel’s catalog streaming The March 21, 2024 and established itself as the best debut ever for a feature film distributed by Amazon MGM Studios.

The film “Road House” is a remake full of adrenaline from the original film produced in 1989 and also features Jake Gyllenhaal (“Spider-Man: Far From Home”) in the lead role, playing a former UFC fighter who becomes a security guard at a motel. The young athlete’s new job shows him the whole truth behind the paradise he created.

For Jennifer Salke, responsible for Amazon MGM Studios, “the successful launch of ‘Road House’ is a testament to the hard work and commitment of the entire cast and crew, led by the fantastic Jake Gyllenhaal. (…) It’s great to see the film take off in this way, both with fans of the original film and with new audiences.”

In addition to Jake Gyllenhaal and Daniela Melchior, the cast of “Road House” also includes the participation of professional fighter Conor McGregor and singer Post Malone, Billy Magnussen (“007: No Time to Die”), Jessica Williams (“Monsters Fantastics: Dumbledore’s Secrets”), BK Cannon (“Exchanged at Birth”), Joaquim de Almeida (“Missing – Desaparecida”) and Lukas Gage (“Euphoria”).

DANIELA MELCHIOR’S SUCCESS

Born in Almada in the last half of the nineties, Daniela Melchior made her debut as an actress in the TVI soap opera “Mulheres”. Other projects followed on the independent channel until in 2018 she reached the big screen by participating in the Portuguese film “The Black Book”. A year later, she won a Sophia Award for Best Actress for her participation in the feature film “Parque Mayer”, which tells the story of what is considered the ‘Portuguese Broadway’. Meanwhile, Melchior also made his debut in the world of dubbing by voicing Gwen Stacy in the animated film “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”, originally played by Hailee Steinfeld in the North American version.

In 2019, Daniela Melchior’s life came full circle when she challenged herself to participate in a casting for James Gunn. At the time, the filmmaker was looking for an actress to play Cleo Cazo in the film “The Suicide Squad”. The Portuguese woman’s talent earned her the role of villain in the DC Films feature film and launched Daniela Melchior into the international cinema market, making her the first actress from our country to participate in a DC film. Important appearances followed in films such as “Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3” and “Fast and Furious X”, further highlighting Melchior’s success worldwide.