How a lot do you need to wager they need this one again badly? Sony Photos Animation produced “KPop Demon Hunters” for roughly $100 million below a streaming deal for Netflix. The studio walked away with a revenue on the movie as a part of its payment — roughly $25 million, as IndieWire understands — however as of at this time, “KPop Demon Hunters” is now Netflix’s greatest movie of all time. Toss within the shock field workplace success that positioned it a quiet No. 1 this weekend, and you need to marvel how a lot cash the studio left on the desk had it solely been a Sony theatrical launch from the beginning.
Netflix introduced Tuesday that “KPop Demon Hunters” is formally its greatest English-language movie ever, with 236 million views. It’s been within the international Prime 10 for 10 straight weeks; it managed to get to No. 2 as lately as two weeks in the past; and it took down the earlier entry that has held that spot for years, “Crimson Discover” starring Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds, which topped out at 230 million views. “Demon Hunters” nonetheless has an extended methods to go too (Netflix tracks a film’s first 91 days on its service when counting the place a movie locations in its Prime 10), so it tells you simply how large this film has gotten.
However that’s not all, and Netflix is making an attempt to seize much more viewers by having launched the Sing-A-Lengthy model of the movie, the one which performed in theaters and made $18.8 million in two days, on Netflix for dwelling viewing. Presumably any viewing for that model of the movie would depend as a separate title and never for the principle movie.
For Netflix, “KPop Demon Hunters” is shaping as much as be its subsequent franchise, already being pushed on the coming Netflix Home venues opening later this 12 months, and absolutely one which Netflix will need a sequel to. “Demon Hunters” was the primary movie Sony made particularly for Netflix for streaming (Sony doesn’t have its personal streaming service) as a part of a Pay 1 deal struck in 2021, so it’s not as if the movie was given up on as a theatrical play and kicked to a rival streamer. Nonetheless, Sony could be feeling some severe FOMO after seeing simply how a lot this movie blew up. At very least, the studio can be concerned in any sequels or spinoffs primarily based on the IP that Netflix desires to make, and Sony even obtained a chunk of the soundtrack gross sales, IndieWire has discovered.
Some added context: whereas “KPop Demon Hunters” is No. 1 on the English-language movies checklist, it’s by far the largest in any language and isn’t just successful within the U.S. Netflix additionally has a listing of its Prime 10 Non-English language movies, however the No. 1 film on that checklist, “Troll” with 103 million views, wouldn’t even crack the Prime 10 of English-language motion pictures. Take a look at the complete Prime 10 checklist under and right here.
For what it’s value, “KPop Demon Hunters” has been watched for fewer general hours than “Crimson Discover,” however that’s partially as a result of that film is eighteen minutes longer than “Demon Hunters.” “Demon Hunters” has been watched for 393 million hours. Netflix, a couple of years again, modified its metric to depend “Views” relatively than “Hours,” which harm among the streamer’s longer motion pictures (taking a look at you, “The Irishman”) that wound up falling off the checklist on account of the metric change.
