topped the North American box office<\/a> over the weekend, in what appears to be a historic first for streaming giant Netflix.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe movie brought in an estimated US$18 million from US and Canada box offices, according to IMDb’s Box Office Mojo, surpassing the US$15.6 million for horror movie Weapons.<\/p>\n
KPop Demon Hunters centres on Rumi, the lead singer of the group, with musical vocals provided by Ejae and a speaking voice from Arden Cho.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rumi struggles with her identity and fears that her two best friends, Mira, voiced by May Hong, and Zoey, voiced by Ji-young Yoo, won\u2019t accept her for who she really is.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The film was produced by Sony Pictures Animation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
While the fictional K-pop girl group called Huntr\/x has achieved enormous real-life success, Cho has been surprised by some of the audience reactions to the movie\u2019s music.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Someone was saying that\u00a0Huntr\/x voices were AI (artificial intelligence) because it’s so good,\u201d Cho said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s so good that they were like, \u2018Oh, those singers must be AI.\u2019 No, we’re real. We’re here,\u2019 she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The movie’s soundtrack has dominated the charts this summer, boasting over 3 billion global streams to date, with breakout hit Golden hitting #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Netflix reports.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The action-packed movie is also the highest-charting soundtrack of 2025 so far with songs How It’s Done, What It Sounds Like and Free also ranking with Golden in the top 10 most streamed songs for the week ending on Aug 14, according to Luminate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To create Golden, which is getting Grammy Award buzz, Ejae had to hit some high notes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Whenever Rumi sings, you know, they (the directors) really wanted her to belt, show off her vocals because that’s her role, right?\u201d Ejae said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, yes, I put as many high notes as possible. And like, I honestly found my range while singing Golden,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 33-year-old was signed by South Korea’s SM Entertainment when she was in her teens as a trainee,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,337,127,22651],"class_list":{"0":"post-28037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-netflix","14":"tag-television-movies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}