Disney's 5-Part Adventure Franchise Officially Takes Over Netflix

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Published Oct 20, 2026, 8:59 PM EDT

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Disney and Netflix reached a deal earlier this month that opened up the Mouse House's vault for the streaming giant, and already, it's paying off. The once-Disney+-exclusive Percy Jackson & the Olympians series has thrived in its limited stay on the rival platform, remaining a fixture on the television charts throughout October. It's exactly the outcome both sides hoped for, with the former aiming to build hype with a new audience for Season 3 and the latter getting another hit on their catalog for a short time. Yet, that hasn't been the biggest success for Netflix.

The deal is bringing a handful of other titles to the platform, including Felicity with Keri Russell, which is currently available, as well as Will Trent next month, Tim Allen's Shifting Gears in December, and other Disney-owned properties like Army Wives, Revenge, This Is Us, and even select Pixar films. Right now, though, Netflix belongs to Ice Age. All five of the animated films originally produced by Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox Animation arrived on the same day as Percy Jackson and have completely dominated the film charts since. Netflix's weekly Top 10 for October 12 through 18 had every film placing somewhere on the ranking, with the highest being Ice Age 5: Collision Course, in third place behind only Tyler Perry's Doing Life and Ben Affleck's new crime thriller, Animals.

It's not often an entire franchise takes over a streamer's most-watched titles, even when they're newly added. As an animated family favorite that hasn't been seen in theaters since 2016, viewers were apparently eager to unthaw Ice Age for a rewatch. The series follows the adventures of Sid the sloth (John Leguizamo), Manny the mammoth (Ray Romano), and Diego the sabertooth tiger (Denis Leary) through the Pleistocene ice age, who are first united on an unexpected rescue mission to save a human child and become fast friends. With each film, their herd grows with new family and companions as they navigate a catastrophic flood, dinosaurs, a continental break-up, and even a trip to the very cosmos, much of which is incited by the squirrel Scrat (Chris Wedge) and his never-ending quest for his acorn.