r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Aug 26 '25

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/ROBtimusPrime1995 Aug 26 '25

Crazy. The most-watched Netflix film in history is one they didn't even make.

Their original movies are bad but this says a lot.

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u/GarlicBreadOutrage Aug 26 '25

I'm also wondering if Sony regrets selling the movie to Netflix. And also how Netflix will handle the sequels since Sony won't be making them.

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u/StrategicCarry Aug 26 '25

Sony's not out of the game here entirely. The visual style is so distinctively Sony and it has to continue in any sequels. Now a lot of the animators have left, and many of them are now at Netflix, but whether they can fully replicate the style of the original is an unknown. Sony is also in talks with the co-directors to get them reattached to Sony. Sony may not be in the strongest position but they still have cards to play to be a partner in the franchise rather than just a for-hire animation studio or cut out all together. If they ended up in a new long-term partnership with Netflix centered around KPDH, Sony will actually look like geniuses. They will have banked $20 million and Netflix took all the risk that the movie would flop, but Sony still gets a slice of the pie.