Kpop Demon Hunters Is Officially Getting A Sequel

KPop Demon Hunters is getting a sequel, Netflix and Sony person announced. Sony Pictures Animation handed nan authorities to nan movie to Netflix in 2021 arsenic portion of a larger licensing deal, but neither institution could person expected really overmuch of a deed it would yet become. Besides being Netflix's "most-watched movie of each time," KPop Demon Hunters is besides nominated for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song astatine the 98th Academy Awards, and stands a bully chance of winning.

Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, nan board of nan first film, are returning to nonstop nan sequel. The task will beryllium nan first successful nan duo's caller "exclusive multiyear penning and directing partnership" pinch Netflix, which is focused connected animation. "I consciousness immense pridefulness arsenic a Korean filmmaker that nan assemblage wants much from this Korean communicative and our Korean characters," Kang said successful a statement. "There's truthful overmuch much to this world we person built, and I'm excited to show you. This is only nan beginning."

"These characters are for illustration family to us, their world has go our 2nd home," Appelhans said. "We're excited to constitute their adjacent chapter, situation them, and watch them germinate — and proceed pushing nan boundaries of really music, animation, and communicative tin travel together."

To put KPop Demon Hunters fame into perspective, nan movie had specified a wide scope that Netflix was consenting to group speech its aversion to theatrical releases and put it successful theaters aft it premiered connected streaming. KPop Demon Hunters reportedly made complete $19 million during its initial two-day theatrical run successful August 2025, and Netflix has brought it backmost to theaters aggregate times since then. That's connected apical of nan much than 500 cardinal views nan movie racked up connected Netflix itself. Not making a sequel would fundamentally beryllium leaving money connected nan table.

According to Puck, nan building of Netflix's woody pinch Sony intends it will apt beryllium nan only institution straight profiting disconnected a KPop Demon Hunters follow-up, however. "While Sony has nan contractual correct to nutrient immoderate sequels aliases spinoffs," Puck reports, "it will make nary further money from nan runaway occurrence of nan first film." Sweetening that woody could beryllium 1 logic Netflix and Sony Pictures expanded their movie licensing partnership successful January, a woody that reportedly costs nan streaming work over $7 billion to secure.