‘KPop Demon Hunters’. Picture: Netflix/©2025 Netflix.
Preview:
- ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ is the technical winner of this week’s field workplace.
- The film has been on Netflix for 2 months however landed in theaters for a sing-along model.
- ‘Weapons’ additionally continues to do properly.
Netflix isn’t historically an organization that releases its motion pictures on the massive display screen, preferring to drive individuals in the direction of the app on TVs and elsewhere. There have been exceptions –– award-worthy motion pictures scored brief qualifying theatrical runs and Greta Gerwig negotiated an IMAX run for her in-the-works ‘Narnia’ effort.
However there hasn’t been something like ‘KPop Demon Hunters’, the story of a Ok-pop famous person woman group who additionally simply so occur to avoid wasting the world from demonic forces, which has been on the streaming companies servers for 2 months now, surging to grow to be the second-most watched film on the platform, with a few of its songs hovering into obtain charts.
“They sing. They dance. They battle demons.”
Launch Date: Aug 23, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 36 min
Funds: $100,000,000
Netflix determined to trip the film’s recognition, and launched it as a “sing-along” model on 1,700 screens throughout North America (and extra internationally), scoring a reported determine of between $18-$20 million, which makes it the very best grossing launch of the weekend. However there’s an asterisk…
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Was ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ actually prime of the charts?
‘KPop Demon Hunters’. Picture: Netflix/©2025 Netflix.
Right here’s the place issues get extra difficult. Since Netflix doesn’t launch field workplace figures and wouldn’t remark about ‘Demon Hunters’ precise earnings, the information comes through exhibition sources and rival studios with entry to sure information.
So the precise, closing tally could by no means be identified.
Which signifies that Zach Cregger’s profitable horror pic ‘Weapons’ technically counts as the highest earner for the weekend with $15.6 million from 3,631 cinemas in its third week for a formidable world whole of almost $200 million, by way of Sunday.
What else occurred on the field workplace this weekend?
(L to R) Julia Garner as Justine and Josh Brolin as Archer in New Line Cinema’s ‘Weapons,’ a Warner Bros. Photos launch. Picture Credit score: Quantrell Colbert. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Leisure Inc. All Rights Reserved.
If we’re to completely depend ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ as the highest of the charts, that makes ‘Weapons’ a robust second place.
Disney’s ‘Freakier Friday’ fell to 3rd place, making $9.2 million for a worldwide whole of $112.3 million.
Fourth was ‘Improbable 4: First Steps’, which regardless of early promise hasn’t actually lived as much as Marvel’s hopes. It took in $5.9 million for a present world whole of $490.1 million.
And in fifth, we discover animated outing ‘The Unhealthy Guys 2’, which made $5.1 million and had earned $149.1 million globally.
In different field workplace information, Apple’s ‘F1’, the Brad Pitt-starring racing drama, roared previous $600 million worldwide this weekend to grow to be probably the most profitable unique film of 2025.
Can I watch the Sing-Alongside model of ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ at residence?
You may! In a transfer that shocked few, Netflix introduced that the sing-along model of the film would arrive on servers on Monday August twenty fifth, so by the point you’re studying this, you’d be capable of go and sing alongside to “Golden” or ‘Takedown” within the consolation of your personal residence (although from the viewing figures, loads of you had been already doing that).
‘KPop Demon Hunters’. Picture: Netflix/©2025 Netflix.
Films At present in Theaters
‘Weapons’ (2025)
‘Freakier Friday’ (2025)
‘Improbable 4: First Steps’ (2025)
‘The Unhealthy Guys 2’ (2025)
‘No one 2’ (2025)
‘Superman’ (2025)
‘Honey Do not!’ (2025)
‘The Bare Gun’ (2025)
‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ (2025)
‘Relay’ (2025)