The Kpop Demon Hunters phenomenon even offers the US box office!
Netflix has scheduled an exceptional outing for its enormous success. Result: the animated film releases n ° 1 in front of the other summer buzz, the horror film passed out. Ethan Coen could not do anything.
Once is not custom, Netflix dominates the US box office!
Cinema phenomenon this summer, the film Kpop Demon Hunters is on the way to becoming the biggest success in the history of the platform (a few inpasses of Red notice).
So Netflix, little follower of dark rooms, decided to offer him a limited outing for a weekend. And Kpop Demon Hunters has proven all its popular power, by housing squarely at the top of the North American box office. Distributed in karaoke version (what is called a Singalong On the other side of the Atlantic) so that the public could sing in the room, the musical animated would have garnered between 18 and 20 million dollars on Saturday and Sunday.
The platform does not communicate its figures (hence the absence of the film in the table below), but according to the estimates of competing studios and operators, Kpop Demon Hunters would be ahead of Passed outthe other phenomenon of August, which was originally to win first place with $ 15.6 million harvested in 3,631 cinemas for its third operating weekend (see table below).
The film Netflix is screened on 1,700 screens – more than double the device set up for Glass onion In 2022 – with approximately 1,150 complete sessions, according to several sources. That such a film, produced by Sony Pictures Animation and directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appehans, is found on the big screen is already rare, Netflix usually favoring streaming. What is all the stronger is that Kpop Demon Hunters is not new. Released two months ago on the platform, he continues to surf the success of his three original songs (Golden,, Your idol And Soda Pop) which currently squat the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 (American classification).
For his part, Passed out Already accumulated $ 115.9 million in North America and more than 200 million worldwide, for a budget of 38 million. After Barbaric In 2022, director Zach Cregger signed a new success and offered Warner Bros. a sixth consecutive hit, Minecraft,, Sinners,, Final destination: Bloodlines,, F1 The film (distributed for Apple) and Superman.
In third position, Disney tries to save the furniture with Freaky Friday 2 and its $ 9.1 million for its third weekend, a limited drop of 36 %. The rest, which again brings together Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, now totals 70 million in North America and 113 million worldwide. A score lower than that of Freaky Friday from 2003 (160 million).
In this context of buzz, Ethan Coen’s new film is struggling to make a place. Honey don!between timidly in 8th place in the US box office, with $ 3 million on 1,317 screens. Worn by Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans and Charlie Day, this black comedy will be released on November 12 in France.
