To say that "KPop Demon Hunters" has been a streaming success is an understatement. Since its debut on June 20, not only has the Netflix action-musical become the most-watched animated Netflix original ever but also the streaming service's second most-watched English-language movie of all time. And it's gotten plenty of critical acclaim this summer as well, with an excellent 97% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
"Kpop Demon Hunters" has been equally winning on the big screen, with a sing-along version of the film hitting cinemas for a limited theatrical release this past Saturday, August 23, and raking in a chart-topping $18-$20 million from 1,700 North American theaters at the box office this weekend, per Variety. (Netflix famously doesn't release box office numbers, so that exact figure is a guesstimate.)
It's not a shock, then, that the streamer would be bringing over that full-length sing-along version to the platform beginning today, August 25 to keep Netflix subscribers entertained (well, at least until "KPop Demon Hunters 2" comes out).
Fans of the movie musical — which focuses on Huntr/x, a K-pop girl group who secretly battle demons using the power of their music — will be able to help create that "Golden Honmoon" seal and banish those evil forces forever by couch-crooning to "Golden," "How It’s Done," "What It Sounds Like" and other Huntr/x.
The film's original songs, which also include tunes by Huntr/x's rival boy band the Saga Boys, were performed by EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI, Andrew Choi, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee, Neckwav, and Lea Salonga. In mind-boggling music news, the movie's fictional bands Huntr/x and the Saga Boys outperformed global K-pop sensations Blackpink and BTS on the U.S. Spotify charts this summer, as reported by the BBC.
“I expected [the movie] to be really awesome and fun, but I did not expect it to be at the level that it is at right now,” actress May Hong told Deadline in a recent interview. “I didn’t think it would be a complete phenomenon, a global sensation or top of the charts.”
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