This past weekend, fans of Huntr/x and the Saja Boys could experience the music ofKPop Demon Huntersin theaters. In a rare move,Netflixreleased a special sing-along version of their hit animated movie on August 23 and 24.
KPop Demon Huntersopened with an estimated $18 millionand won the domestic box office weekend in just two days. While Netflix has not reported the full gross, studios and exhibitors have the sing-along movie with a higher weekend total than the third week ofWeapons. Zach Cregger’s innovative horror grossed $15.6 million over the weekend.
What’s more impressive is thatKPop Demon Huntersonly played on 1,700 screens, whileWeaponswas in 3,631 theaters. Never underestimate the power of K-pop fans and their ability to support their favorite acts, which now includesDemon Hunters.
Netflix has now made the sing-along version available to stream worldwide.
It’s time to seal the Honmoon.KPOP DEMON HUNTERS SING-ALONG is now on Netflix 🎤 🎶pic.twitter.com/gEx6YOrROR
Directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans,KPop Demon Huntersfollows Huntr/x, a K-pop girl group who are secretly a demon-hunting team who fight to protect their fans from the underworld. In an effort to defeat Huntr/x, the demon world creates Saja Boys, a group of demons disguised as a rival boy band.
KPop Demon Huntersis now one of Netflix’s biggest success stories. Now the second most-watched Netflix movie, the animated musical should eventually passRed Noticefor the top spot.
The music has also infiltrated pop culture and the music charts. Three of the movie’s songs —Golden,Your Idol, andSoda Pop —are in the top 10 of theBillboard Hot 100. The soundtrack is the No. 2 album on theBillboard 200.
To meet the Academy’s requirement for Oscar eligibility, Netflix runs its prestige titles in limited theaters in New York and Los Angeles. That will continue as long as the streamer cares about winningOscars.
In 2022, Netflix releasedGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mysteryin roughly 600 theaters for nearly one week around the Thanksgiving holiday. The film grossed around $13.1 million, the highest-ever theatrical total for a Netflix movie at the time.Glass Onionthen streamed on the service one month later on December 23.
Netflix’s biggest theatrical test comes in 2026 when Greta Gerwig’sNarniawill receive a theatrical run on July 09, 2025. The film will play exclusively on 1,000 IMAX screens for at least two weeks.Narniathen streams on Netflix on August 03, 2025.
