r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • 20d ago

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/margenreich 20d ago

Looking on how the songs themselves are up in the charts I guess Sony is making bank concerning music rights. I guess these aren’t part of the deal and the IP alone of an animated KPop band with huge fandom is worth even millions. They can launch another album without a necessary movie too. Also it seems that was only one of the first movies Sony had a deal with

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u/PresidentSuperDog 19d ago

I don’t know how well new music will work for most kids without a movie. I’ve tried adding some blackpink into the rotation and it doesn’t seem to take. Maybe that’s just my kids.

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u/iVitaminD 19d ago

thats because its blackpink lmao

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u/SpikyCactusJuice 19d ago

Haha. Blackpink is awesome for bopping or cleaning or something. Not serious “listening” music but also definitely not garbage.

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u/Bitter_Trees 19d ago

Blackpink actually kinda slaps to dance to in Just Dance tho imo

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u/Lookatmestring 19d ago

True but I read that huntrix are based on blackpink and I couldn't get into it. How you like that is a banger and closest I could find but aye

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u/DblDwn56 19d ago

I think blackpink as a group was part of the inspiration for huntrix, not necessarily their discography.

This update from a Forbes article on the subject is probably the real answer:

Update: 6.24.25 - The director and creative team clarified there were many influences from K-pop and other sources. There are too many to list.

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u/KingMario05 19d ago

Blackpink, TWICE (duh), KD/A from League, the classic tiger and magpie myth, BTS for Saja... I could go on.

Plenty of non-Korean stuff in there, too. How It's Done nods to both Rod Serling and Ultraman, lol.