Prime Video’s Balls Up became the platform’s most-watched movie in the United States and worldwide on April 16, one day after the Prime Video Original movie arrived on April 15.
The film pairs Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser as rival marketers who pitch a World Cup condom sponsorship, then scramble to escape Brazil after a fiasco at the final. Sacha Baron Cohen, Benjamin Bratt, Eva De Dominici and Daniela Melchior are in the supporting cast.
The quick jump to the top of Prime Video’s charts put Balls Up ahead of a weekend slate that also included The Boss Baby and The Running Man. The Boss Baby, the animated film that spawned a franchise with a sequel and multiple TV shows, was sitting as Prime Video’s 7th most-watched movie in the United States.
Prime Video also added The Running Man on Friday, April 17, giving the service another high-profile title as Balls Up held the lead. The 2025 remake of the Arnold Schwarzenegger action film stars Glen Powell as Ben Richards, a man who enters a life-threatening reality show to win prize money for his family.
Richards has to survive 30 days to claim the money, while evading cameras, professional killers and citizens who could alert the Network’s hunters. That premise gives the streamer a second pressure-tested draw in the same weekend: one film built on broad comedy, the other on survival.
The early result is clear. Balls Up did not just land on Prime Video; it immediately became the service’s biggest movie, and The Running Man gives viewers a very different kind of reason to keep watching.
