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By Igordebraga, GN22, Shuipzv3, Vestrian24Bio, and CAWylie
This traffic report is adapted from the Top 25 Report, prepared with commentary by igordebraga, GN22, Shuipzv3, Vestrian24Bio, and CAWylie.

Adolescent resident (March 16 to 22)

Rank Article Class Views Image Notes/about
1 Adolescence (TV series) 2,641,901 This crime drama miniseries about a 13-year-old British schoolboy (Owen Cooper) who is arrested for stabbing a girl to death premiered on Netflix on March 13. Directed by Philip Barantini and written by #6 with Jack Thorne (pictured), all four of the series' episodes were filmed in a single shot. Barantini had previously used the one-shot technique in 2021 for his film Boiling Point, which also starred #6. The series has received critical acclaim, with the acting of its leads often being singled out for praise.
2 Sunita Williams 1,949,331 On June 5, 2024, Williams and fellow astronaut Barry Wilmore launched on Boeing Crew Flight Test, the first crewed Boeing Starliner flight, to the International Space Station. Their stay on the ISS was scheduled for eight days, but helium leaks and thruster malfunctions with the Starliner led NASA to opt not to have the astronauts take the Starliner back to Earth. Williams and Wilmore stayed in space for more than nine months, until they returned to Earth safely aboard SpaceX Crew-9 on March 18. When they splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico which shall be known by no other name, they were greeted by some adorable dolphins.
3 George Foreman 1,694,604 A boxer who died at the age of 76, with career highlights including an Olympic gold at the 1968 Summer Olympics, as well as the heavyweight world title in both the 1970s and the 1990s, in the former losing his belt in the famous Rumble in the Jungle against Muhammad Ali, and in the latter getting into shape thanks to a grill that he decided to endorse. A fun fact about Foreman is that all his 5 sons are named "George" — and one of his 7 daughters is Georgetta.
4 Snow White (2025 film) 1,089,675 Disney's live action remakes of its animated classics reached the original, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, still an animation landmark nearly 90 years later. Some decisions were questioned before release, such as Rachel Zegler as the title princess (she was given an unflattering haircut, and many didn't find it believable that Gal Gadot is jealous of her looks) and making the dwarfs computer-generated. And now that it's out, even more plaint was made, of changes to the plot and a campy (if not embarrassing) musical number for the Evil Queen — so who knows if audiences will overlook all this and make Disney recoup a hefty $250 million budget and reach the break-even point of $500 million?
5 Severance (TV series) 966,198 This American science fiction psychological thriller Apple TV+ series released its season 2 finale on March 21. That same day, it was announced that the series was renewed for a third season with 25 questions that audience are awaiting to be answered in season 3.
6 Stephen Graham 926,848 One of the main actors and co-writer and creator of #1. This writer was first introduced to him in Snatch., and Graham has also been in Gangs of New York, Boardwalk Empire, This Is England, and two each of both the Pirates of the Caribbean and Venom movies.
7 Deaths in 2025 923,517 I am afraid that there's much to be afraid of
Here today, gone tomorrow...
8 Saint Patrick's Day 906,375 March 17 was the day to celebrate the patron saint of Ireland, be with accent imitations, drinking lots of beer, or using green everywhere.
9 The Electric State 746,614 In an alternate version of the 1990s that went through a robot war, Millie Bobby Brown goes to the desert where the machines were forced to live in exile in search of evidence that her supposedly deceased brother is still alive. Taking the setting of the eponymous graphic novel and elements from many sci-fi works like Fallout, Surrogates, Ready Player One and the Transformers movies, The Electric State received negative reviews for being as unremarkable as most Netflix original movies in spite of the most impressive visuals a staggering $320 million can buy. Audiences still checked it out, and it's the second most viewed Netflix movie of the year after Back in Action.
10 The White Lotus season 3 734,821 The third season of the series released its sixth episode on HBO on March 23. HBO will continue to release a new episode every Sunday, until the season finale on April 6.

Teenagers scare the livin' shit out of me (March 23 to 29)

Rank Article Class Views Image Notes/about
1 Adolescence (TV series) 2,304,762 This British crime drama Netflix miniseries about a 13-year-old schoolboy named Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) who is arrested for the murder of a girl in his school; created by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham; and directed by Philip Barantini (pictured); released all of its four episodes on March 13, which were each shot in one continuous take. It received critical acclaim for its directing, writing, and cinematography, with special attention paid to its atmosphere and performances — and it tops the report for a second consecutive week.
2 Snow White (2025 film) 1,941,073 Marc Webb directed the live-action adaptation of Disney's first animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, that wound up very expensive and is at a high risk of losing lots of money, as audiences were not as enthusiastic to see it for a multitude of things (being tired of those remakes, uninspiring previews that provided bad first impressions such as computer-generated dwarfs and Rachel Zegler's characterization, the movie's alleged wokisme, adapting an older movie compared to the Disney Renaissance remakes) and an underperforming $87 million worldwide opening[a] is set to suffer a steep downfall.
3 Natalia Grace 1,511,647 This was supposedly a real-life version of Orphan, an Eastern European child adopted by an American family who turned out to be a sociopathic adult woman with dwarfism. But some things weren't the same, as the parents of Ukrainian-born Natalia Grace petitioned the Marion County court to change her birth records and raise Grace's legal age from eight to twenty-two, subsequently leaving her alone in an apartment as they moved to Canada. According to the couple who found Grace struggling to survive and took her in, her behavior is not bad: the adoptive parents were eventually charged with neglect. This weird story is now being told in the Hulu limited series Good American Family.
4 Rachel Zegler 1,247,792 The protagonist of #2, who has already starred in a Best Picture nominee, fought alongside superheroes, and survived The Hunger Games. Already unpopular with some on the Internet, Zegler's reputation wasn't helped by her unfortunate quotes regarding the original Snow White. At least she'll take time off filmmaking to play Evita in the West End. Disney allegedly put her on a blacklist and producer Marc Platt's son slammed her trying to bring politics into the film on Twitter (namely following a thank you regarding the trailer receiving millions of views with "and always remember, free Palestine"; yes, it's a stretch).
5 Joe Gatto 1,024,048 This American improvisational comedian, actor, and producer was accused by two women of sexually inappropriate behavior, which he has denied. Regardless, he cancelled his comedy tour and checked into a facility.
6 Deaths in 2025 976,076 To quote the villain of #2: "Dip the apple in the brew. Let the Sleeping Death seep through. Look, on the skin! The symbol of what lies within. Now turn red to tempt Snow White to make her hunger for a bite. HAVE A BITE!"
7 Vanessa Trump 975,690 The ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr. and mother of his five children has been revealed as the latest girlfriend of Tiger Woods.
8 Good American Family 868,835 A Hulu limited series dramatizing the story of #3, it stars Imogen Faith Reid as Natalia Grace, and Mark Duplass and Ellen Pompeo (pictured) as the Barnett couple that adopted her.
9 Severance (TV series) 849,542 This science fiction psychological thriller Apple TV+ series had its season 2 finale which concluded with a cliffhanger; has been renewed for a season 3 on the same day as finale. Ben Stiller (pictured) who executive produced and primarily directed the series revealed that the third season won't take as long as the second season did, as the second season's production was heavily delayed due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes.
10 L2: Empuraan 842,761 This Mollywood action thriller film, a sequel to the 2019 film Lucifer and the second instalment in the Lucifer trilogy was released on March 27 and managed to recover its budget of 180 crore (US$21 million) in just 4 days and emerged as the second highest-grossing Malayalam film of all time and the third highest-grossing Indian film of 2025. It was jointly produced by Aashirvad Cinemas, Lyca Productions, and Sree Gokulam Movies, with Mohanlal (pictured) reprising his role as the lead character.

And you're turning tricks, with your crucifix, you're a star (March 30 to April 5)

Rank Article Class Views Image Notes/about
1 Val Kilmer 5,517,198 A talented actor who was the youngest person admitted into Juilliard School, started his film career with the leading role in Top Secret! and emassed hits (Top Gun, Batman Forever, Heat) and acclaimed performances (The Doors, Tombstone, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) even with a few flops and a reputation of being difficult to work with. His last film appearance on Top Gun: Maverick displayed Kilmer's biggest setback in life, a throat cancer that took his voice (in the documentary Val, he speaks with much effort covering a tracheotomy hole in his neck), and another respiratory issue caused his death as Kilmer died at 65 of a pneumonia.
2 Sikandar (2025 film) 1,865,547 Bollywood's latest hit, in spite of negative reviews, has Salman Khan as a Raja hunted by a politician seeking revenge.
3 Adolescence (TV series) 1,396,824 This British crime drama Netflix miniseries about a 13-year-old schoolboy named Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) who is arrested for the murder of a girl in his school released all of its four episodes on March 13, which were each shot in one continuous take. It received critical acclaim for its directing, writing, and cinematography, with special attention paid to its atmosphere and performances.
4 ChatGPT 1,174,872 Even those who never watched an anime in their lives were seeing online people using ChatGPT to turn images into pastiches of Studio Ghibli, whose catalogue includes two Oscar winners (Spirited Away and The Boy and the Heron) and other acclaimed movies such as My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, and Ponyo.
5 Richard Chamberlain 1,090,281 One year after the acclaimed new adaptation of Shōgun, death came at the age of 90 for the star of the original one, known as "King of the Miniseries" for limited shows like that one and The Thorn Birds. Other notable roles for Chamberlain included Aramis in a trilogy of The Three Musketeers adaptations, Allan Quatermain in two movies heavily influenced by Indiana Jones, and the first portrayal of Jason Bourne.
6 A Minecraft Movie 1,082,403 Minecraft is the best-selling video game of all time, and formed the basis of the third video game adaptation starring Jack Black, whose reception is halfway between the hated Borderlands and the beloved The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Reviewers were unimpressed, as in spite of Black and Jason Momoa enjoying themselves, critics envisaged that only children and long-time players could properly like A Minecraft Movie. With those two demographics attending the movie en masse, it opened to a massive opening weekend of $300 million worldwide.
7 Deaths in 2025 1,018,476 From #1's last movie:
To tell me you need me, I see that you're bleeding
You don't need to show me again
But if you decide to, I'll ride in this life with you
I won't let go 'til the end...
8 Joanne Whalley 942,756 #1's longest relationship was with this actress, who he met when they worked on Willow and is the mother of his two children, Mercedes and Jack (pictured). Their divorce affected Kilmer while making the infamous The Island of Dr. Moreau, where his on-set behavior let director John Frankenheimer to declare "There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There is not enough money in the world."
9 L2: Empuraan 926,960 This Mollywood action thriller film, a sequel to the 2019 film Lucifer and the second instalment in the Lucifer trilogy was released on March 27 and managed to recover its budget of 180 crore (US$21 million) in just 4 days and break several records. It was jointly produced by Aashirvad Cinemas, Lyca Productions, and Sree Gokulam Movies, with Mohanlal reprising his role as the lead character.
10 Snow White (2025 film) 897,714 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is widely considered one of the best animations ever made. Its live-action remake is nowhere near as acclaimed, and in fact seems to attract overblown hatred — the review bombing on IMDb made it the lowest rated movie ever until the website decided to disconsider the hundreds of thousands of low grades. An awful thing that doesn't end also plays a role, as the film's Snow White is unpopular for among other things having spoken in favor of Palestine, and the Evil Queen is downright demonized simply because she is Israeli. In any case, audiences aren't watching Snow White, and a damning demonstration is how in its third weekend the film was surpassed not only by #6 and A Working Man but by some theatrically released episodes of The Chosen!

Footnotes

  1. ^ The worldwide take is $168.4 million as The Signpost goes to press more than two weeks after US opening. Given the quarter billion dollar budget, this is probably pleasing nobody at Disney, even though it's not that close to Mars Needs Moms flop territory - ed.

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