“Enola Holmes 3” opened to 20.3 million views in its first five days on Netflix, a debut that landed well below the franchise’s previous installment despite a Fourth of July holiday release window. The film, starring Millie Bobby Brown as the teenage detective sister of Sherlock Holmes, drew a fraction of the audience that greeted “Enola Holmes 2,” which pulled in roughly 29.8 million views over a comparable early stretch in 2022, marking a drop of about 32 percent.
The sequel also trailed two other recent Netflix film launches. “Voicemails for Isabelle” opened to 31 million views, and “Office Romance” landed close to Enola’s number at 20.9 million. Industry watchers note the comparison isn’t entirely apples-to-apples, since Netflix is measuring “Enola Holmes 3” against a holiday frame that included stiff competition from the ongoing FIFA World Cup, which has drawn record audiences to broadcast and streaming rivals in the United States.
The film picks up with Enola preparing to marry Lord Tewkesbury, played by Louis Partridge, only for the wedding to unravel when her brother Sherlock, played by Henry Cavill, goes missing. The disruption sends her chasing a new case across Malta. Despite the softer opening, the movie still topped Netflix’s English-language film chart for the week and outpaced other titles competing for attention on the platform, including “Little Brother” with Eric André and John Cena.
While the film franchise cooled, one of Netflix’s television originals kept climbing. “I Will Find You,” the streamer’s first American adaptation of a Harlan Coben novel, added another 16 million views in its third week, pushing its total to 74.1 million in just 18 days.
The eight-episode series stars Sam Worthington as a father wrongfully imprisoned for his son’s murder who sets out to find the boy after learning he may still be alive. Its sustained momentum puts it within reach of Netflix’s all-time most-popular English series list, a ranking that has previously been topped by another Coben adaptation, “Fool Me Once.”
Netflix does not release comparable viewership figures for the original 2020 “Enola Holmes,” making direct three-film comparisons difficult. The streamer’s weekly rankings, drawn from hours viewed converted into an estimated view count, remain the primary public gauge of how its original films and series perform once they leave theaters behind entirely for a straight-to-streaming release.
