Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Santa, and The Man with the Bag teaser takes off for Prime Video
Alan Ritchson rides along in the Christmas action comedy, and the comment section has become a contest of rewritten Schwarzenegger catchphrases.
Prime VideoStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 320,707 views a day, 15 times a normal first day on this channel (21,646).
The Man with the Bag - Official Teaser | Prime Video
Arnold is Santa now. The first teaser for The Man with the Bag, Amazon's Christmas action comedy, passed 250,000 views in its first fifteen hours. That is close to fifteen times what a new upload on Prime Video usually draws in a whole day.
The channel posted plenty around it. A Summer I Turned Pretty first-kiss clip, a Helluva Boss sing-along and an Invincible scene all went up the same day, and none of them reached twenty thousand views. The holiday movie is the one people kept opening.
The pairing is a big part of the pull. Schwarzenegger plays Santa Claus, and the video's tags put Alan Ritchson beside him. Ritchson is the star of Reacher, one of Prime Video's own hit series. Adam Shankman, the director of Hairspray, is behind the camera.
Viewers came ready to play. Many have rewritten Schwarzenegger's most famous lines from Predator and Terminator for the North Pole, with cookies and sleighs in place of choppers and clothes. Several point to a moment about half a minute in that they hear as a nod to "I'll be back."
Others go straight to Jingle All the Way, the 1996 film in which he spent Christmas Eve chasing a Turbo Man doll. One popular joke says that after all that searching, he simply became Santa so he could make the toy himself. More than one commenter is hoping Danny DeVito, his Twins co-star, turns up as an elf.
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What viewers say
Terminator and Reacher?
I'm all for it@malcolmgardner688See it on YouTubeSanta clause: GET TO THE SLAYAA!!
@Sega-Man18See it on YouTubeHe got so tired of finding turbo man that he decided to become Santa and build it in the top shop
@ItsAjayTimeSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Prime Video
- Subscribers
- 9,790,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 8,275,626 (on a normal day: 5,767,028)
- Video published
- September 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 258,263 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 320,707
The numbers
The figures show a teaser starting far ahead of anything else Prime Video put up around it.
💡 Test your knowledge
Schwarzenegger fans are reworking his famous line "Get to the choppa!" Which film is it from?
Schwarzenegger shouts the line as Dutch near the end of the 1987 jungle film Predator.
