With “KPop Demon Hunters” changing into Netflix’s largest movie of all time, it was solely a matter of time earlier than Netflix reached a cope with Sony Photos Animation to go to work on a sequel. And immediately followers are getting phrase that Huntr/x is again, simply possibly not as quickly as they’d like.
Sony and Netflix have closed a deal to make a sequel to “KPop Demon Hunters,” and co-directors Chris Appelhans and Maggie Kang have additionally each closed a deal to return for the sequel, IndieWire has discovered. Nevertheless, as Bloomberg first reported, it’s possible a movie wouldn’t launch on Netflix till 2029, although that date is unsure and may change. Animated movies take a while in spite of everything if you’d like them to look good.
Sony and Netflix every declined to remark when reached by IndieWire.
Bloomberg’s article additionally famous that “KPop Demon Hunters” toys are lastly on the way in which, with followers with the ability to place orders on toys quickly. One downside: they received’t ship till 2026, so this Christmas received’t be KPop-themed.
Nonetheless, enthusiasm for “KPop Demon Hunters” hasn’t slowed a bit. The movie has been in Netflix’s Prime 10 listing for motion pictures for 20 straight weeks, and it has racked up a whopping 325.1 million views on Netflix, and counting. It has almost 100 million extra views than what, for years, was Netflix’s most-viewed film ever, the Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds motion film “Pink Discover.”
Not solely that, however the film was a field workplace hit again in August and even returned to theaters for an additional sing-a-long occasion for Halloween that did an extra $5-6 million on the field workplace. Dressing up as Huntr/x was one of many scorching Halloween costumes of the yr for individuals of a sure age. And several other songs from the movie, together with “Golden,” “Your Idol,” and “Soda Pop,” have been mainstays of the Billboard Sizzling 100 ever for the reason that movie launched and have become a mega hit.
Sony Animation produced “KPop Demon Hunters” for Netflix as a part of a service deal and obtained a $25 million revenue as a price, however we think about that price will climb for this mega sequel. There’s the idea that Sony left cash on the desk by not releasing such a sensation into theaters itself, however the movie was at all times designed as a streaming title to work and catch fireplace on Netflix, and that’s precisely what it did.
We’re going up, up, up! (In awhile.)
