Walton Goggin's Western Epic That Faced a Major Boycott Resurfaces on Streaming

Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 Western Django Unchained is climbing up Peacock’s U.S. Top 10 chart more than a decade after its release. The action film currently ranks at No. 5 in the country, after re-entering the chart at No. 8 on September 3, 2025. The Jamie Foxx starrer was produced on a $100 million budget and earned over $426 million worldwide. Upon its release, the film was met with boycotts and bans in China for its graphic violence and controversial portrayal of slavery . However, it always largely pulled through with both the audiences and critics and evidently still holds an 87% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Django Unchained follows Foxx as Django, an enslaved man freed by German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz ( Christoph Waltz ). The two set out on a quest to res