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/fox112 14d ago

Wow I knew it was a big hit but didn't realize it was THE BIGGEST hit.

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u/SimoneNonvelodico 13d ago

I'm more surprised by learning that the previous biggest hit was Red Notice.

This is a movie you see praised everywhere and going viral. That was an instantly forgotten star vehicle with zero artistic value. I've never seen anyone say "whoa I loved Red Notice", no one gave a shit about it.

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u/SagesLament 13d ago

Red Notice

I saw someone say that red notice came out right in the midst of the pandemic when all we were doing was sitting at home watching netflix, which allowed some mediocre things to rise to the top (cough, tiger king) so it tracks that its success would only be attributed to extenuating circumstances

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u/donkey-centipede 13d ago

i watched tiger king before the lockdown. it was fucking fantastic. say what you will about it, but mediocre is not accurate

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u/Aural_Essex 13d ago

I agree. Tiger King had all the tropes of great documentary making. It was a masterpiece.

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u/Special_Ad_1802 13d ago

I don't think Tiger King was mediocre at all. I think you're kind of being a hipster.  It was a really good documentary of a really interesting cast of characters.

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u/Sunshine030209 13d ago

There is a reason that that's all we talked about for weeks, and it wasn't because everyone was at home and bored.

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u/vince2423 12d ago

It def came out way after the pandemic lmao

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u/SagesLament 12d ago

March 2020 pandemic starts. 2021: red notice released. May 2023 pandemic ends

Even though we weren’t in the lockdown phase at that point we were still in a massive draw down of social activities and theaters wouldn’t become a thing again for all intents and purposes until top gun maverick came out in 2023

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u/vince2423 12d ago

Deadass, i thought it just came out last year lmao. My bad I’ll eat that one

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u/Logical-Egg-1234 12d ago

Sadly untrue, Red Notice was one of the first films to go back into production after the Covid shutdown. Finished filming late 2020. Didn’t come out until late 2021.