Guy Ritchie's 'Mobland' series opens with a audience record in Paramount+

Paramount+ The series premiered on March 30 MobLand of Guy Ritchie with great audience rates for streamer.

According to information shared by Paramount Global, The first episode of the series was seen by 2.2 million viewers, becoming the most watched launch of the streaming platform.

The three best launches of Paramount+

1. MobLand
2. 1923
3. Landman

In a press release shared to media, Chris McCarthy, executive co -director of Paramount, and president and executive director of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, said (via Deadline):

“MobLand It is a resounding success thanks to the visionary work of Guy, Jez, Ronan and David Glasser, and the exceptional work of Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, who transport us to a world of which the public, no doubt, does not get tired. MobLand It is one more proof of the power of our differentiated model: less series, larger and revolutionary that stand out among the crowd, and that also reinforces our record success of 2024, where we position ourselves as the second largest SVOD in the visualization time of original series. ”

The series starring Pierce Brosnan as the head of a criminal family, Tom Hardy as its loyal solution, and Helen Mirren Like the wife of the capo, it combines the style of ritchie worlds as those presented in Snatch, Wrath of Man y The Gentlemen.

Synopsis:

“Mobland stars Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan as the head of an organized crime family, who fights for power within a global criminal union.

“The plot shows two generations of gangsters, their businesses, the relationships they weave and the man they call to fix their problems.”

The cast also includes Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver, Anson Boon, Mandeep Dhillon, Jasmine Jobson, Geoff Bell, Daniel Betts, Lisa Dwany Emily Barber.

Ritchie directs and produces executively MobLand. Con Ronan Bennett (The Day of the Jackal) as creator and screenwriter, and Jez Butterworth (Ford v Ferrari, Spectre, The Agency) as another scriptwriters. The rest of the executive producers are Hardy, Keith Cox, Nina L. Diaz, David C. Glasser, Ronan Bennet, Kris Thykier, Ivan Atkinson, Dean Baker, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin and Bob Yari.

MTV Entertainment Studios produces the series in association with 101 Studios, with Paramount as a global distributor.

As a curious fact we share that MobLand had initially developed under the title The Donovanswith plans to function as spinoff of the series Ray Donovan of Showtime. Those plans were discarded and the Ritchie series was rethink as an independent project and without connections with the aforementioned.