‘KPop Demon Hunters’: Animated film achieves historic milestone • FRANCE 24 English
It is official. K-pop Demon Hunters is the most popular Netflix film of all time. Around 236 million people have watched the animated film that stars a K-pop superstar trio saving the world from demons through their music. This is not its first win. Like the fictional characters, the story and its music are extremely popular. Its soundtrack has been streamed a billion times and the song Golden was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. A singalong version of the film was also the streaming platform’s first ever number one box office title. It generated between 16 and $18 million in weekend ticket sales after screening in 1,750 theaters across the US. While the movie is primarily in English, is set in South Korea and takes heavily from modern Korean culture and K-pop. A former K-pop trainee and songwriter is one of the main singers in the film. We just wanted everybody to just accept that they were in Korea, you know, and these characters are Korean. They’re not Korean-American. And I think that is the only way we’re going to, you know, we expose anybody to new things. Just kind of treat it as like a normal thing. Netflix has reportedly submitted Golden for the best original song category at the Oscars, which could potentially add to the film’s accolades.
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ is the most popular Netflix film of all time. Hundreds of millions of people have watched a K-pop superstar trio save the world from demons through their music.
And this is not even its first win.
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If you're gonna talk about this, please talk about the industry schemes and rip-off as well! Just her saying 'it's not American-Korean, but Korean' is not enough!
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