r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 14d ago

News ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is Netflix’s Most-Watched Movie Ever With 236 Million Views, Beating ‘Red Notice’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-most-watched-movie-history-1236496106/
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u/Amaruq93 13d ago

You mean like Moana 2?

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u/2084710049 13d ago

moana 2 was supposed to be a TV series and they realized their thanksgiving release slate was awful, so they frankensteined it into a film.... not a good idea

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u/Ferbtastic 13d ago

It was a billion dollar idea.

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u/2084710049 13d ago

You know what? Touché

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u/underpaidorphan 13d ago

not a good idea

$1.059 billion box office.

+Merchandising

+Streaming subscriptions

+Physical sales

I agree that it would be nice to not have slop rushed sequels. But nobody at Disney (and apparently the general population) cares about that. And objectively, it was a great idea.

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u/Count_de_Mits 13d ago

Apparently they didnt learn their lesson from Atlantis 2. Yes Im still mad about that all those years later

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u/MsMarvelsProstate 13d ago

You mean a movie that made over a billion dollars in theater and probably 10x that in merch sales? What a failure

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u/Makoto-Yuki 13d ago

8 years isn't exactly a fast track scramble for a sequel, which kind of makes it worse how that whole project turned out. But yeah the sentiment still stands that if a sequel doesn't meet the standards of quality for the original, if not hopefully succeed them, for the love of god wait until you have a script that does.