Singalong screenings of Netflix & Sony Animation’s “Kpop Demon Hunters” easily topped the charts this weekend, the two-day event reportedly hauling in $9.6 million on Saturday and targeting an $18 million overall weekend.
Despite the film being readily available on Netflix, over 1.5 million admissions are expected to have attended the screenings either yesterday or today. It also comes as the movie is poised to become the streamer’s most-watched feature to date.
The film’s performance was strong enough to knock “Weapons” off the top spot, that film coming in second with $15.6 million for the three-day Friday-Sunday weekend – a drop of 36% in that weekend and a total of $115.8 million domestically.
This weekend was the worst performing weekend of the Summer domestically with just $78 million – the next worst being the second May weekend at $86 million.
Rounding out the top five were “Freakier Friday” with $9.2 million, “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” with $5.9 million and “Bad Guys 2” with $5.1 million – all dropping in the low-mid 30% range along with “Superman” down in seventh with $3.4 million.
“Nobody 2” saw a sharp drop of 60% in its second weekend, the title coming in sixth with $3.7 million – suggesting the movie would be better going to PVOD sooner rather than later.
Of the indie newcomers, Ethan Coen’s mixed-reviewed “Honey Don’t!” landed at $3 million for the three-day weekend in eighth place, the Riz Ahmed-led “Relay” came in eleventh with $1.9 million, the English release of “Ne Zha II” made just $1.5 million, and “Eden” took in just $1 million.
Source: Deadline
