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Wikipedia:Top 25 Report

The Top 25 Report
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Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, GN22, and CAWylie.

⭠ Last week's report

Still mostly entertainment (especially as a popular actor died), but someone special made it back to the list…

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, 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   See #16 for the main reason why this is so high up on this week's report.
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 considered only children and long-time players could properly like A Minecraft Movie. And 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 (#18). 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 (#21) 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 #13 but by some theatrically released episodes of The Chosen!
11 Cory Booker   894,618   On #15, this U.S. Senator from New Jersey broke the record for the longest speech in Senate history, surpassing Strom Thurmond's 24-hour-long filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. For about 25 hours straight, Booker spoke out against the disruptive actions of #25 and his senior advisor Elon Musk.
12 Natalia Grace   891,364   In 2010, it seemed like an American couple had watched Orphan and decided it was the way to get rid of their own Eastern European adoptive daughter with dwarfism (pictured here in a documentary), leaving her alone in an apartment while telling others she was also a sociopathic adult woman pretending to be a child. But it was all a neglectful lie, leading the couple to get criminal charges and this weird story to be told in a Hulu show (#23).
13 A Working Man   783,636   Jason Statham is a former Royal Marine Commando working at a construction site, who after his boss's daughter is kidnapped goes to her rescue, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction. It barely strays from Statham's other action movies and thus has done well at the box office, having already covered its $40 million budget in spite of middling reviews.
14 The White Lotus season 3   782,755   HBO aired the season finale for this, that caused controversy for an incestuous story and somehow delayed the death that happens once a season to the last episode.
15 April Fools' Day   660,516   April Fools!
16 Studio Ghibli   648,843   Even those who never watched an anime in their lives were seeing online people using #4 to turn images into pastiches of this famed Japanese studio, 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. Founder Hayao Miyazaki doesn't have nice things to say about AI art.
17 The White Lotus   635,542   #14 is the latest in this show about bad things happening in a resort hotel. Location scouting for the next season has already started.
18 Jack Kilmer   620,899   #1 and #8's son also went into acting, with roles in movies such as The Nice Guys and Lords of Chaos. Jack also narrates a documentary built out of decades of homemade footage filmed by his father, Val, being his voice as he barely had it anymore (a few scenes have Val speaking with much effort after covering the tracheotomy hole in his neck).
19 Laura Loomer   592,310   The perpetuator of the Springfield pet-eating hoax in September returned to #25's side to tell him that several members of the U.S. National Security Council were disloyal to his regime. Council adviser Michael Waltz arrived late to the meeting to witness Loomer's litany of names, to which President and council chairman Trump ordered those people in question to be fired.
20 Bob Dylan   560,678   A Complete Unknown entered Hulu on March 27, so the second screen purpose of Wikipedia lets people search more on its subject, music legend Bob Dylan. The movie has Timothée Chalamet portraying Dylan in the 1960s, from when he arrived in New York City until a controversial concert where people complained about electric instruments being played in a folk festival.
21 Rachel Zegler   550,672   Yes, the Jersey-born leading actress of #10 is of Latin descent. Yes, she supports Palestine. However, Zegler received additional negative press following Snow White's release when producer Marc Platt's son publicly blamed her comments for the film's slow inability to recoup its budget (it's one of Disney's many entries on the most expensive films list, and currently bound to join the biggest flops one).
22 MobLand   550,180   Paramount+ started this show that would be a prequel to Ray Donovan only to be reworked into its own crime story, starring Tom Hardy as a fixer.
23 Good American Family   541,843   The more dramatized story of #12 (starring Ellen Pompeo, pictured) premiered on Hulu on March 19 and airs until April 30. It was the platform's most-watched title on March 25.
24 Severance (TV series)   515,582   This science fiction psychological thriller Apple TV+ series had its season 2 finale, which concluded with a cliffhanger; it'd been renewed for a season 3 on the same day as finale. Ben Stiller 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.
25 Donald Trump   496,320   Well, look who's back. It's time for yet another round of WDDD. Let's catch up with what we missed these past two weeks. Last week, President Trump attempted to overhaul the U.S. electoral process and reiterated his desire to buy Greenland by sending several members of his cabinet there. Most concerningly, Trump said that he was "not joking" when he said he was considering to run for an unconstitutional third term and that there are "methods which you could do it" (the only method would be to pass a constitutional amendment allowing him to run again, but that would require the support of some Democratic states). The biggest news of this week regarded new tariffs on all goods brought into the U.S., causing an immediate stock market crash and bear market. A breakdown on the tariffs lead to the much mocked discovery that one of the locations hit by taxes is Heard Island and McDonald Islands, a distant archipelago that isn't inhabited by humans, but by penguins! I guess we all can be a little (unusually expensive) nuts sometimes.

Exclusions

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  • This list excludes the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the talk page if you wish.
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