{"id":41744,"date":"2024-10-09T13:25:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T17:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=41744"},"modified":"2024-10-09T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T17:26:00","slug":"rez-ball-enjoys-strong-debut-on-netflix-viewing-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/10\/09\/rez-ball-enjoys-strong-debut-on-netflix-viewing-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Rez Ball’ enjoys strong debut on Netflix viewing charts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/p>\r\nRez Ball<\/EM><\/a> is coming in strong following its debut on the Netflix streaming service late last month.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nFollowing its release on September 27, the Native-written and Native-directed film landed at Number 6 on the Netflix Global Top 10 chart<\/a>. According to the streaming service, the fictional story about a high school basketball team<\/a> on the Navajo Nation<\/a> racked up 3.9 million views around the world between September 30 and October 6.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nAt one point during its first few days of release, Rez Ball<\/EM> was even among the top five viewed films in the United States. However, it did not make the Top 10 chart in the U.S.<\/a> following its debut.\r\n

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On October 1, 2024, “Rez Ball” was ranked number three among most viewed films on Netflix in the United States. Screenshot by Indianz.Com<\/figcaption>\r\n

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According to Netflix, “Rez Ball” enjoyed 3.9 million views around the world during its first full week of release, counted from September 30 through October 6, 2024. Screenshot by Indianz.Com<\/figcaption>\r\n

<\/P>\r\nBut Rez Ball<\/EM> did land in the Top 10 in a total of 14 countries — almost all of them in Latin America. According to Netflix, the film performed well among viewers in places like Argentina<\/a>, Chile<\/a>, Ecuador<\/a>, Guatemala<\/a>, Mexico<\/a> and Venezuela<\/a>.\r\n

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According to Netflix, “Rez Ball” enjoyed 3.9 million views around the world between September 30 and October 6, 2024. Screenshot by Indianz.Com<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n

<\/P>\r\nRez Ball<\/EM> was directed by Sydney Freeland<\/a>, a Navajo citizen who also co-wrote the film. Shooting took place on the Navajo Nation<\/a> and in New Mexico, according to the New Mexico Film Office<\/a>.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cKids across the Navajo Nation just like me grew up shooting hoops on sandy ground dreaming of future glory on their high school courts,\u201d Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren<\/a> said as he welcomed Freeland home to the reservation<\/a> a day before the debut of Rez Ball<\/EM> on Netflix. \u201cFrom isolated sheep camps where a log holds up a hoop to state basketball championships in Phoenix and Albuquerque surrounded by a sea of brown faces, basketball is how passion is defined by generations of Navajo boys, girls and their parents watching them bring home trophies year after year.\u201d \r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cNow Sydney has captured all of that feeling in her wonderful film,\u201d said Nygren, who designated September 27 as “Rez Ball<\/EM> Day”<\/a> on the Navajo Nation.\r\n

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Join me, Director Sydney Freeland, the actors of Rez Ball, and the Netflix crew for the Navajo Nation screening of the film in Window Rock, Arizona.\r\n\r\nI also will sign a proclamation declaring Friday, September 27th, 2024, as \u201cREZ BALL Day\u201d across the Nation.<\/p>Posted by Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren<\/a> on Thursday, September 26, 2024<\/blockquote><\/div>\r\n

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren: Screening of ‘Rez Ball’<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n

<\/P>\r\nFreeland co-wrote Rez Ball<\/EM> with Sterlin Harjo<\/a>, who is from the Muscogee Nation and the Seminole Nation. Harjo, who is well known for the Reservation Dogs<\/em> series<\/a> that ran for three season on FX, was recently named a recipient of the prestigious “Genius Grant” from the MacArthur Foundation<\/a>.\r\n

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Welcome home to Netflix film Rez Ball, director Sydney Freeland \r\n \r\nIt\u2019s been 19 months since Emmy-nominated film and TV…<\/p>Posted by Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren<\/a> on Sunday, September 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Native-written and Native-directed ‘Rez Ball’ is coming in strong following its debut on the Netflix streaming service.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,1,21,23],"tags":[3101,1252,3240,2166,3311,110,2167,550,24,167,1883,4468,109,5478,102],"class_list":["post-41744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-national","category-sports","category-world","tag-argentina","tag-basketball","tag-buu-nygren","tag-chile","tag-ecuador","tag-film","tag-guatemala","tag-mexico","tag-navajo","tag-new-mexico","tag-sterlin-harjo","tag-sydney-freeland","tag-tv","tag-venezuela","tag-youth","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-aRi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/09\/rezball.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41744"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41773,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41744\/revisions\/41773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}