This Netflix movie might have flopped with critics, but the director claims 500 million people watched it

Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio in Don't Look Up.

Netflix movie Don't Look Up wasn't a huge hit with critics when it was released in 2021, scoring just 56% on Rotten Tomatoes.

But director Adam McKay has claimed that almost half a billion people watched the movie on the streamer, which would make it a massive success with audiences. "The estimates of how many people saw that movie – Netflix will never say exactly – but it’s somewhere between 400 million and half a billion," he told NME.