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Netflix is officially taking KPop Demon Hunters from streaming screens to unrecorded arenas, announcing a worldwide performance circuit inspired by the Oscar-winning animated phenomenon.
The streamer revealed the task during its Upfront presumption successful New York, confirming a concern with unrecorded amusement elephantine AEG Presents for what it described arsenic an immersive signifier acquisition based connected the film’s euphony and characters.
While circumstantial circuit dates and cities stay nether wraps, Netflix said fans tin already articulation a waitlist up of the afloat rollout aboriginal this year. The institution teased that the accumulation would recreate elements of the movie “in spectacular ways,” though it has not yet confirmed whether vocal performers including EJAE, Audrey Nuna oregon Rei Ami volition enactment successful the concerts.
Netflix advertizing main Amy Reinhard called the movie a planetary taste improvement during the announcement, pointing to viral singalongs, instrumentality cosplay and adjacent a reported spike successful question bookings to South Korea pursuing the movie’s release.
Directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, KPop Demon Hunters follows fictional idol radical Huntr/x, whose members secretly conflict supernatural forces portion maintaining their K-pop superstardom. The movie exploded into a streaming sensation aft debuting connected Netflix successful 2025, yet becoming the platform’s most-watched English-language movie ever with much than 325 cardinal views successful its archetypal 3 months.
The soundtrack besides became a large crossover success, helping the movie unafraid aggregate manufacture milestones, including Academy Awards designation and historical wins tied to K-pop euphony globally. A sequel is already successful improvement done Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation, with Kang and Appelhans returning arsenic portion of a broader originative woody with the streamer.
AEG Presents antecedently handled large-scale tours for acts including BLACKPINK, BTS and Tomorrow X Together, which suggests Netflix is aiming for an arsenic ambitious planetary rollout.
