Jenna Ortega's Klara and an 'Instant Connection' lead Sony's UK countdown
A short clip from Taika Waititi's Kazuo Ishiguro adaptation, three weeks before its October 23 release, has left the studio's other Klara teasers well behind.
Sony Pictures Releasing UKStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 39,179 views a day, 34 times a normal first day on this channel (1,160).
Klara and the Sun - Instant Connection - Only In Cinemas October 23
Fifteen hours after Sony Pictures Releasing UK put up "Klara and the Sun - Instant Connection - Only In Cinemas October 23," the clip had passed 30,000 views. A short video on the studio's British channel usually ends its whole first day at around a thousand, so this one is running roughly thirty times ahead of habit.
The title gives little away, but the film's synopsis explains the phrase. Jenna Ortega plays Klara, an Artificial Friend who wants nothing more than the right home. When she meets Josie, the girl she will look after, each recognizes a kindred spirit in the other. Josie's world is a heavy one: a strained bond with her mother, played by Amy Adams, and a loss the family has not gotten over. Klara's wonder and loyalty start to mend it.
The source is Kazuo Ishiguro's 2021 novel, his first after the Nobel Prize, in which Klara draws her strength from the sun itself. Taika Waititi directs and wrote the script with Dahvi Waller, Steve Buscemi and Natasha Lyonne join the cast, and David Heyman, the producer behind the Harry Potter films, is among the producers.
The clip is one piece of a steady build-up. Over two days the channel also posted a short that simply announces "Jenna Ortega is Klara," another hoping we can all be "a little more like Klara," and a longer piece of Waititi talking about the character. None has come close to this one. One of its two early comments simply welcomes Ortega back.
It also takes over from Verity, the thriller the channel spent last week promoting, as we reported here. The same day brought a first tease of The Social Reckoning, billed as a companion piece to The Social Network, but for now the channel belongs to Klara.
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- Channel
- Sony Pictures Releasing UK
- Subscribers
- 572,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 4,114,420
- Channel views, pace per day
- 726,862 (on a normal day: 696,147)
- Video published
- October 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 31,415 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 39,179
The numbers
Beside the clip's fast start, the channel's overall daily views are close to their usual level.
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Jenna Ortega plays the title role in which Netflix series?
Ortega stars as Wednesday Addams in Netflix's Wednesday, first released in 2022.
