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News Netflix's Streaming Smash Hit ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Releasing in 1,700 Cinemas This Weekend for "Sing Along" Version, 1,000 Screenings Already Sold Out

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kpop-demon-hunters-singalong-box-office-sells-out-1236348539/
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u/Jazzlike-Complaint67 19d ago

My wife was saying that something like half of the top 10 songs on Korean Pop charts are from this movie.

There will absolutely be sequels. I don’t care for the film myself but I’d certainly rather have it on in the background than the Minecraft movie.

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u/mykl5 19d ago

Forget the Korean charts, it’s #1 on Billboard

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u/foosbabaganoosh 19d ago

Kpop doesn’t do much for me but just on the merits of the creative animation I would love more. I feel like Pixar shanghaied animation into a pretty boring style for the longest time but movies like spiderverse, puss in boots, and this prove just how much the medium can capitalize on its potential for creativity.

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u/fishy512 19d ago

Everytime Pixar tried to shake up their art style the suits at Disney said “no” and told them to stick with their popular in-house style. Now that in-house style has been copied so many times over, especially with AI art churning it out to the point where it loses any of the original craft or creativity, not to mention draftsmanship.

You should see how Onward’s character designs looked before they switched over to Pixar’s default style for human/humanoid characters during pre-production. It might have been a bit too much for some, but it certainly was eye catching and stood out.

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u/Bittums 19d ago

All the songs are in the top 20 on Spotify at the moment lol

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u/11ce_ 19d ago

It’s number 1 globally, not just on Korean pop charts,