Rachel Zegler’s Field Workplace Bomb Turns World Streaming Sensation

It seems the bug is infectious in spite of everything, as Y2K has turn out to be a worldwide streaming hit. Co-written and directed by Saturday Evening Stay alum Kyle Mooney, the A24 movie follows a bunch of highschool college students struggling to outlive after the yr 2000 bug triggers all expertise around the globe to turn out to be sentient and insurgent towards humanity.

Y2K‘s forged consists of Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison, The Child Laroi, Lachlan Watson, Daniel Zolghadri, Mason Gooding, Lauren Balone, Eduardo Franco, Alicia Silverstone, Tim Heidecker, and Fred Durst. Y2K was initially launched in theaters in December 2024 and began streaming on HBO Max in April 2025.

Now, one yr later, Y2K ranks fourth on HBO Max’s High 10 motion pictures on the planet for right this moment, October 7. It ranks under Superman (2025), 28 Years Later, Materialists, and above Canine Man, Street Home (2024), Conan the Barbarian, The Conjuring: The Satan Made Me Do It, Vacation spot Marriage ceremony, and Wolf Man (2025).

Y2K‘s international streaming success is considerably stunning, contemplating it bombed on the field workplace when it was launched again in December 2024, making solely $4.5 million towards its $15 million funds. Y2K was one in every of a number of field workplace bombs for Rachel Zegler, preceded by West Aspect Story (2021), Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023), and adopted by Snow White (2025).

Y2K opinions had been additionally blended, leading to a 43% Rotten Tomatoes rating, praising its daring ambition and fearless creativity, however criticizing its incapacity to maintain humor amid its uneven mixture of tones, because it makes an attempt to mix the apocalyptic, teen, sci-fi, comedy, journey, and horror genres.

Nevertheless, regardless of its essential and industrial failure, audiences can not seem to cease streaming Y2K, seemingly as a result of radiant Rachel Zegler, whose presence alone appears to be garnering the curiosity of audiences, although she struggles to raise the principally mediocre materials.

Quickly after its streaming launch in April 2024, Y2K was the sixth most-watched film on all streaming platforms in the US for the week of April 3–9. Now, a yr later, Y2K has turn out to be a streaming success on a worldwide stage.