KPop Demon Hunters continues to be Golden! Months after its Netflix premiere, the animated hit has reached the top of Nielsen’s high 10 streaming film charts for its tenth week straight. From August 18 by way of August 24, it racked up a whopping 930 million minutes of watch time (not together with telephone and laptop views), solely dropping to The Addam’s Household spinoff Wednesday, which earned 1.13 billion minutes that very same week, in keeping with The Hollywood Reporter.
Removed from its solely accomplishment, the action-packed musical has additionally formally grow to be Netflix’s hottest film of all time. Apart from its restricted theatrical launch (together with a sing-along model in choose theaters), which prompted it to high the field workplace in North America in late August, there are already large plans for the KPop Demon Hunters universe to increase — together with a sequel and an animated quick movie. Whereas it is but to be confirmed, it is also been rumored that Netflix has been in talks to develop a KPop Demon Hunters tv sequence.
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Catchy Music Continues To Prime Charts
A part of what made KPop Demon Hunters such a widespread success was the movie’s unforgettable soundtrack. Hits like “Golden,” “Your Idol,” and “What It Sounds Like,” haven’t solely dominated social media with snippets of the songs being utilized in Instagram reels and TikTok movies, the soundtrack for the movie additionally hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this month.
In a current interview, the film’s government music producer, Ian Eisendrath, advised Tudum that it was very “essential” for them to create songs that had the identical explosive “power” of a Okay-Pop hit.
“I’ve all the time considered Okay-pop as probably the most theatrical style of pop, and so I used to be simply immediately excited by the chances of what may occur in a story context with the Okay-pop songs [and] incorporating precise, hit-making Okay-pop artists. I simply felt like all the things was actually set as much as be a particular musical and narrative expertise.”
He additionally opened up on the thought behind “What It Sounds Like,” a tune that was carried out close to the conclusion of the movie when the principle characters have been left feeling “utterly misplaced,” solely to appreciate their true skills collectively.
“What it feels like is that this unimaginable roar from all of the individuals within the stadium, all of the individuals in Seoul, all of the individuals on this planet. It actually cements that concept of the movie that music brings us collectively; connection is what all of us must survive, and connection can solely be as actual and genuine as individuals are.”
- Launch Date
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June 20, 2025
- Runtime
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96 minutes
- Director
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Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang
- Writers
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Hannah McMechan, Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang, Danya Jimenez
- Producers
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Aron Warner
