Amber Heard’s Final Film Is Storming the Streaming Charts, Proving Her Hollywood Pull Endures
Amber Heard’s Hollywood swan song is making waves as the final DCEU chapter surges into Netflix’s Top 10, sending Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom back into the spotlight.
Amber Heard has been off the Hollywood grid for a minute, but her last big studio outing just popped back up in the conversation thanks to Netflix. Yep, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is riding a fresh wave on the streamer, and people are clearly still curious. Or maybe the algorithm just loves a sea king. Either way, it has her name back in the mix.
Where Aquaman 2 lands on Netflix right now
Netflix's own Tudum dropped a fresh Top 10 movies list, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is sitting at No. 4. The whole board is a funny grab bag of new releases and older catalog titles:
- Jingle Bell Heist - November 26, 2025
- KPop Demon Hunters - June 20, 2025
- Champagne Problems - November 19, 2025
- Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom - December 22, 2023
- In Your Dreams - November 14, 2024
- Ambulance - April 8, 2022
- Dog - February 18, 2022
- The Carman Family Deaths - November 19, 2025
- The Island - July 22, 2005
- Frankenstein - October 17, 2025
Quick refresher: what Aquaman 2 represents
This one was the final movie in the DCEU experiment. The Flash sort of kicked off the wind-down, and after that it was all eyes on the reset button for James Gunn's new DCU and whatever that continuity becomes. If you skipped it in theaters, Aquaman 2 doubled down on the returning cast: Jason Momoa as Arthur Curry/Aquaman, Patrick Wilson as his brother Orm (Ocean Master for the folks keeping score), and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II chewing the scenery as Black Manta. It opened December 22, 2023, and now it is finding a second life on Netflix.
Heard's pause, the trial, and the quiet rebuild
Heard stepped back from the Hollywood churn after the headline-dominating defamation battle with Johnny Depp. The case wrapped in December 2022 with a settlement that had Heard paying $1 million to Depp. All of that wrapped almost a year before Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom hit theaters, which makes this Netflix afterburn interesting timing-wise.
Since then, she has been living low-key in Spain (she moved there in 2022, per Hello) and largely off the red carpet. In May 2025, the 39-year-old welcomed twins, Ocean and Agnes, via surrogacy. Yes, one of the babies is literally named Ocean, which feels on the nose given the Aquaman connection, but life is weird like that.
Acting-wise, her first role after the 2023 film was not a big screen comeback but a stage turn. Hello reported in June 2025 that she joined a new Jeremy O. Harris play titled Spirit of the People, part of the 2025 Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, which ran in July.
So, is this Netflix bump a comeback signal?
At minimum, there is audience appetite. Fans of DC and fans of Heard are clearly checking the movie out (or rewatching it), and that kind of momentum tends to get noticed. Whether that translates into another film role soon is the real question, but the interest is there.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is streaming on Netflix right now. Do you want to see Heard back in more film or TV projects, or are you good with the stage detour for a while?