Lindsay Lohan has become the queen of Netflix films. She’s also the queen of new Christmas movies in 2024. The erstwhile child star has the No. 1 new holiday film of the season, and it’s not even close.
Her Our Little Secret outranks films starring Lacey Chabert, the longtime Hallmark staple who has a new Netflix movie, and comedian Jack Black, whose fun Christmas film scored for Paramount+.
This is according to information provided through Samba TV, a TV generation provider for audience insights and omniscreen measurement. Its breakdown of the 10 new holiday videos streamed, measured from Nov. 1 to Dec. 10, puts Secret squarely in the lead.
The film attracted 3,293,332 American families during this period. By comparison, Chabert’s new Christmas movie No. 2, Hot Frosty, also on Netflix, drew 2,332,865 viewers in the same period.
Our Little Secret may become Lohan’s most productive film on Netflix, where she has a multi-picture deal. Its previous Christmas campaign, Falling for Christmas, reached 989,000 families two years ago, a figure that was measured in a smaller window.
Last spring’s Irish Wish, a St. Patrick’s Day-themed movie, drew very similar numbers. Clearly, people are getting used to looking for Lohan around the holidays. And the streaming service has benefitted from the semiannual publicity over Lohan’s comeback after years where her personal life made more headlines than her professional accomplishments.
In Our Little Secret, Lohan and an ex unknowingly end up dating siblings, setting them up for an unforeseen Christmas gathering, which leads to an equally unforeseen (for them, the viewers) rekindling of their romantic emotions.
Netflix has become the Hallmark Channel of streaming. Like the latter cable network known for its formulaic but hugely popular holiday tales, Netflix has made a major investment in the genre, and it has paid off.
The service offers six of the seven new Christmas videos of the year. Behind Our Little Secret and Hot Frosty, in which Chabert faces off against a fiery snowman who comes to life, Netflix’s Meet Me Next Christmas (2,052,469 households) and The Merry Gentlemen (1,959,697) come in at No. 3 and 4.
Meet Me Next Christmas features another Netflix holiday romcom stalwart, Christina Milian, as a woman trying to get tickets to a sold-out Pentatonix concert—who falls in love along her journey through New York City.
The Merry Gentlemen is an unapologetic opportunity to convince former teen idol Chad Michael Murray to take off his shirt, and it works. He and some men agree to host a men’s Christmas revue to raise money for a failing bar and, yes, have sex with the bar owners’ daughter.
Paramount+ has only one top 10 new Christmas film, but it’s a solid entry. At No. 5, Jack Black’s sweetly funny Dear Santa features a kid who accidentally summons Satan (Black) when he means to write a letter to Santa. The film has posted 1,494,283 households.
“Dear Santa” star Jack Black helped propel the film into the top five most sensible new Christmas videos this season.
You can watch Our Little Secret on Netflix.
You can watch Hot Frosty on Netflix.
You can watch Meet Me Next Christmas on Netflix.
You can watch The Happy Gentlemen on Netflix.
You can watch Dear Santa on Paramount.
You can watch That Christmas on Netflix.
You can watch Mary on Netflix.
You can watch The Nutcracker on Hulu.
You can watch A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter on Netflix.
You can watch Almost a Christmas Story on Disney+.
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