{"id":21529,"date":"2025-08-25T05:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21529\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:15:11","slug":"the-most-successful-movie-of-2025-skipped-theaters-for-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21529\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Successful Movie Of 2025 Skipped Theaters For Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most successful movie of 2025 isn\u2019t a comic book movie; it\u2019s animated, and it\u2019s not in theaters. KPop Demon Hunters has been the number one worldwide film on Netflix for over two months, refusing to let go of the number one spot ever since its June 20 debut. It\u2019s not only Netflix\u2019s biggest win of the year, eclipsing the return of Wednesday, but it\u2019s crossed over to make Billboard music history, a sequel is in the works, and despite the budget of $100 million, it\u2019s still less than a season of Stranger Things and both of Zach Snyder\u2019s Rebel Moon flops.<\/p>\n

KPop Demon Hunters\u00a0was going to be a success; that there was any doubt about it is another sign that Sony, the studio that received the initial pitch, keeps stepping on rakes. I described the plot to a friend who had never seen it as \u201ca K-pop girl group is secretly tasked with protecting Earth from demons, and their rivals are a boy band who are secretly demons.\u201d His response was, \u201cThat\u2019s a license to print money.\u201d And it is.<\/p>\n

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Between the rise of Korean culture across the globe and the mainstream success of anime<\/a> in the West (though\u00a0KPop Demon Hunters\u00a0is\u00a0not\u00a0<\/strong>anime, it\u2019s a Western production), it\u2019s the perfect movie at the perfect time. The simple plot is taken to new heights thanks to the incredibly catchy songs throughout, including \u201cGolden,\u201d performed by EJAE, Audrey Nuna & REI AMI, which made history by ascending to the top spot on the Billboard charts, making the real-life HUNTR\/X the first girl group to claim the top spot since Destiny\u2019s Child.<\/p>\n

Two other songs, performed on the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack by the demonic Saja Boys, \u201cYour Idol\u201d and \u201cSoda Pop,\u201d are also in the Billboard Top Ten. The streaming<\/a> hits soundtrack has outperformed Justin Bieber\u2019s latest album and is running neck and neck with Morgan Wallen. The music has been so wildly successful that the movie is defying Netflix\u2019s standard modus operandi and is in theaters, a feat that not even Adam Sandler\u2019s Happy Gilmore 2 could pull off.<\/p>\n

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Music is at the heart of KPop Demon Hunters<\/p>\n

The Sing Along version of KPop Demon Hunters hit theaters during an exceptionally weak August weekend, earning an estimated $10 million on Saturday, August 23, enough to make it the top film of the weekend. It\u2019s no wonder that the directors and co-creators, Maggie Kang<\/a> (who previously did storyboard animation for Dreamworks movies, including Puss in Boots: The Last Wish) and Chris Appelhans (another animation veteran who was the illustrator for Coraline), are already working on developing the 100-minute film into a multi-media franchise.<\/p>\n

KPop Demon Hunters is already Netflix\u2019s most successful English-language film in history, approaching 200 million views since its debut, crushing Zach Snyder\u2019s Rebel Moon, destroying Glass Onion, and managing to outperform every single Adam Sandler<\/a> comedy on the streamer, but it\u2019s also the beginning. The company\u2019s co-production deal with Sony includes rights to every sequel, so while it\u2019s a small win for the movie studio, it pales in comparison to the success they\u2019d have had if they had footed the production bill themselves.<\/p>\n

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The worldwide success of KPop Demon Hunters has reached the point that mainstream media is running articles about the film\u2019s explosive popularity and overnight obsessive fandom. It\u2019s also another sign that creatives don\u2019t have to launch their projects in theaters to become successful, a topic that has been discussed to death by the media for over a decade now, but that grim reality is closer than we realize.<\/p>\n

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