Netflix's 'The Irishman' was watched by 26.4 million people in a week

Netflix is proud to announce that their recently released movie directed by Martin Scorsese, 'The Irishman' has reached over 20 million accounts already.

Netflix revealed this news via a Tweet from their Netflix Film account. According to the Tweet, Martin Scorsese's 'The Irishman' was watched by 26,404,081 accounts globally just within its first seven days on Netflix. Netflix certainly wants to be bragging about this, considering the streaming platform threw $200 million dollars at the production of the movie.

Since its release, The Irishman has already received five Golden Globe nominations and is no doubt lined up to receive some sort of Oscar nomination as well. Netflix said to Deadline that the movie is expected to reach around 40 million accounts by its first 28 days of release. For those wondering what the requirements are for the movie to be counted as 'watched' -- a user must have sat through at least 70% of the film.