After almost four months, KPop Demon Hunters is still in the Top 5 on Netflix and shows no signs of going away anytime soon. Now, according to The Wrap, the film that has become a ridiculous juggernaut is about to come back and dominate cinemas yet again, as the Sing-Along version will be on the big screen again between Friday, October 31 and Sunday, November 2 for those who missed it last time, or those who want to go and see it again.
Netflix is notorious when it comes to giving movies theatrical runs. While several of their biggest movies have received a limited run ahead of their Netflix debut, something that will be happening with this year’s Knives Out sequel, no Netflix movies have been given two cinema releases months after the film premiered on the platform. KPop Demon Hunters is now that movie.
Since premiering in June, KPop Demon Hunters has amassed over 500 million hours watched, surpassing Dwayne Johnson’s Red Notice to become the most popular original movie ever released on the platform. It has also broken records in the music charts, with the soundtrack spending several weeks at the top of the Billboard chart, and four tracks appearing simultaneously in the Top 10 singles chart. Add in a reported $40 million box office haul from its previous two-day stint in theaters in August, and the film has become the very definition of a phenomenon.
KPop Demon Hunters’ return to theaters could give Netflix another theoretical number one weekend (theoretical because Netflix don’t release exact numbers), as competition is fairly low. Emma Stone and Alicia Silverstone’s Bugonia, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, and A House of Dynamite, will all be in contention for the top spot, but now up against the mighty musical fantasy, their chances of claiming don’t look as golden as they did.
‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ Should Have Been a Cinema Blockbuster
The fact that Netflix has decided to put KPop Demon Hunters back into theaters for a second time is an unprecedented turn of events that proves how much of a big deal the movie has become. What is perhaps more stinging, especially for Sony Pictures, is that the film could have been one of 2025’s biggest theatrical releases and potentially become one of the biggest movies of the decade to boot.
Sony developed and made the movie, but then, for a reason that no one really knows, sold it off to Netflix with a number of other titles. In hindsight, this is perhaps the same kind of oversight as, say, all those publishers who turned down the first Harry Potter novel, or thought that rare 1977 Star Wars toy was best removed from its dusty packaging and thrown in with the other action figures. Now, the fact that the film is heading back to theaters is just rubbing salt in the wound.
KPop Demon Hunters will no doubt be a hit once again in cinemas over the Halloween weekend, but you can guarantee it will also return to the top of the Netflix chart in the wake of its re-release.
- Release Date
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June 20, 2025
- Runtime
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96 minutes
- Director
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Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang
- Writers
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Hannah McMechan, Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang, Danya Jimenez
- Producers
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Aron Warner
