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Today marks nan first day of Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters release, and nan streamer said coming that nan animated flick has spent each week since past connected its apical 10 most-watched list.
The streamer said nan movie has clocked 600M views since its debut and deed nan apical 10 successful each 93 countries wherever nan streamer has apical 10 lists. Boosted by its catchy tunes, nan film’s soundtrack spent 2 weeks astatine number 1 connected Billboard’s 200 Albums chart. And Netflix said coming nan soundtrack’s haul led to complete 15B streams worldwide.
Directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, nan movie follows Rumi (Arden Cho), Mira (May Hong) and Zoey (Ji-young Yoo), young-adult popular stars successful a group called Huntr/x whose ancient demon-slayer lineage has them moonlighting arsenic demon hunters erstwhile they aren’t trading retired stadiums and topping charts.
When their biggest demonic force (Lee Byung-hun) encourages nan statement of an arsenic celebrated K-pop boy set aimed astatine stealing nan souls of their fans, nan trio has to conflict harder than ever to clasp nan demons astatine bay while keeping their relationship intact.
Earlier this year, Netflix confirmed that a KPop Demon Hunters sequel is successful nan works, with Kang and Appelhans returning arsenic directors. Sony Pictures Animation will nutrient nan feature. The workplace was besides down nan first film, which won 2 Oscars, including Best Animated Feature.
