Netflix’s File-Breaking Hit Beats Field Workplace Newcomers, Regretting You & Black Telephone 2 Battle Has Big Shakeup (Sunday Replace)

KPop Demon Hunters has bested Halloween weekend’s new releases, however one other No. 1 win is just not in its sights. The fantasy musical, which debuted on Netflix on June 20, has since change into the streaming platform’s most-watched film of all time. It has shattered different information as properly.

Along with “Golden” turning into the primary music by a KPop lady group (fictional or in any other case) to hit No. 1 within the Billboard Sizzling 100 within the U.S., 4 tracks from the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack landed within the Prime 10 concurrently, which is the primary time this has ever occurred for a film soundtrack. When it hit theaters for a one-weekend sing-along presentation, the film additionally turned Netflix’s first No. 1 theatrical launch ever.

Per Selection, as of Sunday morning, KPop Demon Hunters (which has returned to theaters in sing-along type over Halloween weekend) is projected to earn a 3-day complete of $6 million (an enormous enhance from preliminary $3.4 million projections) by the tip of its second nonconsecutive weekend on the home field workplace.

Whereas it isn’t anticipated to high the chart this time, KPop Demon Hunters has defeated the brand new releases which have descended into theaters over a quiet Halloween. This contains the Indian film Baahubali: The Epic and the vast growth of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia, which stars Emma Stone and earned a Licensed Contemporary 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The one motion pictures anticipated to outdo KPop Demon Hunters are holdover titles, most notably Regretting You (an adaptation of the romance novel of the identical title by It Ends with Us writer Colleen Hoover) and Black Telephone 2 (Blumhouse’s sequel to their hit 2022 Joe Hill adaptation).

The films, which each star Methods to Practice Your Dragon breakout Mason Thames, have been locked in a head-to-head battle for No. 1 all weekend. As of Saturday, Black Telephone 2 had pulled forward with 3-day projections of $7.6 million in comparison with Regretting You‘s $6.6 million. Nonetheless, following a sleepy Halloween day on Friday, Saturday’s numbers have seen the latter’s projections surge.

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As an alternative of slowing down as anticipated, Regretting You is now projected to earn $8.1 million in comparison with Black Telephone 2 at $8 million, in accordance with Paramount’s calculations, although different sources are projecting it to earn $7.2 million. Whereas it’s nonetheless too near name which title will find yourself at No. 1, Regretting You might belatedly rating a significant report.

If Regretting You had opened at No. 1 as a substitute of No. 2, it could have been Mason Thames’ third No. 1 debut of 2025 after Methods to Practice Your Dragon and Black Telephone 2. The one time a star has had three No. 1 debuts in the identical calendar 12 months was when Jim Carrey starred in 1994’s The Masks, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and Dumb and Dumber.

Whereas that triple No. 1 debut report stays unbroken, having three motion pictures hit No. 1 at any level throughout their runs in the identical 12 months would nonetheless put the 18-year-old actor in rarefied air. Under, see the complete home Prime 5 chart for the weekend:

One factor that has allowed there to be a lot motion on the chart is the truth that the earlier weekend’s No. 1 title, Chainsaw Man – The Film: Reze Arc, plummeted all the way down to both No. 3 or No. 4, relying on whether or not KPop Demon Hunters is ready to topple it. It is a week-on-week drop of 67%.

Anime titles, whereas more and more well-liked within the U.S., are typically very frontloaded, so this isn’t a surprising sophomore weekend improvement.

In the meantime, the vast growth of Bugonia claimed the No. 5 spot. In tandem with KPop Demon Hunters, it has knocked the earlier weekend’s No. 4 and No. 5 titles (the underwhelming biopic Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere and the DOA sci-fi tentpole Tron: Ares, respectively) off the board utterly.

All in all, although there was appreciable pleasure within the race for No. 1 over Halloween weekend, the vacation falling on a Friday mixed with studios eschewing new tentpole releases has resulted in the lowest-grossing home field workplace weekend of the 12 months, with all titles anticipated to earn a mixed complete of simply $49 million.

In truth, no particular person launch is anticipated to earn an eight-figure quantity or larger, which is able to mark the primary time that this has occurred in additional than seven months, for the reason that weekend of March 14.

That weekend was led by the Jack Quaid action-comedy Novocaine ($8.8 million), Steven Soderbergh’s spy movie Black Bag ($7.6 million), and the second weekend of Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi film Mickey 17 ($7.4 million).

As KPop Demon Hunters‘ draw diminishes months after its streaming premiere, the field workplace should wait till later in November to have an inflow of money. Fortunately, all kinds of promising IP tentpoles are coming quickly, together with Predator: Badlands, The Working Man, Depraved: For Good, and Zootopia 2.

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Launch Date

June 20, 2025

Runtime

96 minutes

Director

Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang

Writers

Hannah McMechan, Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang, Danya Jimenez

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