KPop Demon Hunters has sold out hundreds of movie theaters after its record-smashing streaming premiere. The animated fantasy musical, which debuted on Netflix on June 20, follows the fictional KPop group Huntr/x, who moonlight as demon hunters and must face off against the demonic boy band, the Saja Boys.

The movie has held a place on Netflix’s global Top 10 English-language movies chart for nine consecutive weeks and is currently No. 1. Additionally, multiple songs from the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack appeared on the Billboard H๏τ 100, with “Golden” reaching No. 1. It has since become the second most-watched movie on Netflix in history, behind 2021’s Red Notice.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix’s upcoming two-day theatrical presentation of KPop Demon Hunters: A Sing-Along Event, which will come to theaters on August 23 and 24, has been booked in 1,700 theaters and counting across North America, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. 1,000 of its showtimes have already sold out as of Tuesday, August 19.

What This Means For KPop Demon Hunters

It is currently unknown how much money 2025’s KPop Demon Hunters will make at the worldwide box office by the end of its two-day special appearance in theaters, because showtimes continue to be added, and it is currently unknown exactly what capacities the sold-out theaters have.

However, presuming that tickets are roughly $15 and each showtime has about 100 seats apiece, this means that the movie is probably already set to earn about $1.5 million or more with pre-sales alone. Presumably, that number will continue to rise as the weekend approaches.

If it is able to hit a weekend gross between $4 and $5 million at the domestic box office, which is certainly not out of the realm of possibility given the current projections of $5 to $10 million, KPop Demon Hunters could potentially add a spot in the domestic Top 10 to its many records.

This is the case because, while there are a number of new releases flooding theaters during that weekend (including Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t!, the English dub of Ne Zha II, and the Riz Ahmed thriller Relay), it seems unlikely that many of them will debut with more than $4 million.

Our Take On The KPop Demon Hunters Box Office

Even though more and more streamers have found success with theatrical runs for their streaming тιтles in recent years, Netflix has long avoided giving robust theatrical releases to their original movies. This has been the case even though the three-day limited release of Glᴀss Onion: A Knives Out Mystery hit No. 3 at the domestic box office in 2022.

However, the fact that they are giving such a wide release to KPop Demon Hunters, and that it is already performing so well, could be a portent that some of the biggest Netflix movies are going to come to theaters much more often in the near future, especially if the majority of them perform similarly well.

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