{"id":342054,"date":"2025-08-13T20:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/342054\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T20:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:32:10","slug":"uk-cinemas-to-host-kpop-demon-hunters-sing-alongs-animation-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/342054\/","title":{"rendered":"UK cinemas to host KPop Demon Hunters sing-alongs | Animation in film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Younger audiences will be singing their hearts out in cinemas across the UK this month as KPop Demon Hunters arrives on the big screen for a series of special sing-along events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/jul\/31\/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-animation\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unexpected Netflix hit<\/a>, which has become the most popular animated film of all time on the streaming platform, has hooked children (and many parents) worldwide since its release in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The film\u2019s soundtrack, meanwhile, is dominating the charts with more than 3bn global streams so far and the song Golden reaching No 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and the UK\u2019s official singles chart. The official video has been viewed on YouTube more than 130m times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">KPop Demon Hunters follows the adventures of the girl group Huntr\/x, made up of Rumi, Mira and Zoey, who use their secret identities as demon hunters to protect their fans from supernatural threats and face off against a rival band, Saja Boys, whose members are secretly demons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Tickets are now on sale for the screenings across the UK on 23 and 24 August. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/netflix\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix<\/a> confirmed similar events will be available in the US and Canada on the same weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Along with demand for a sequel, there is also an insatiable demand for its merchandise, with Hunter\/x T-shirts, hoodies and hats among the bestselling items on Netflix\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie Kang, the film\u2019s Korean-Canadian co-director, previously said she and her co-director, Chris Appelhans, had wanted the film\u2019s music to be \u201creally incredible and really speak to the K-pop fans and legitimately fit into the K-pop space\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Hollywood animation is having a lacklustre summer at the box office and it is possible that not a single fully animated film will make the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>The Disney-Pixar original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/jun\/23\/elio-gives-pixar-its-worst-ever-box-office-opening-despite-positive-reviews\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elio has been trounced<\/a> by \u201clive-action\u201d remakes of Lilo &amp; Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Younger audiences will be singing their hearts out in cinemas across the UK this month as KPop Demon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-342054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115023363768988606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}