Deadline:

Apple’s WWII drama Greyhound, starring and written by Tom Hanks, has become the largest opening-weekend release ever for Apple TV+, including series that have bowed on the service, sources close to Apple tell Deadline. The streamer is loathe in giving up exact numbers, but I’m told the film turned in a viewing audience commensurate with a summer theatrical box office big hit, which of course Greyhound was meant to be until it moved from Sony to Apple because of the uncertainty of movie theaters after COVID-19.

Beyond generating the largest opening weekend ever for Apple TV+, 30% of its viewers were new to the service.

Ignoring the tortured headline, this is great news. As I said on Twitter, “Personal verdict on Greyhound: B+. Very tense. Woefully lacking character development. Confusing jargon (I’m a Navy brat but wife isn’t. I had to explain a lot) and, for us, poor sound quality. Better on big screen.” Still good enough I’d recommend it to anyone interested.