Published 10/15/2025
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Netflix is up 35% YTD with lots of success from its lower-tier subscription and some big releases coming out through the year such as Squid Games season 3, Wednesday season 2, and the final Stranger Things season coming this winter. However there is one huge surprise which nobody saw coming; K-Pop Demon Hunters.
It is the next big series for Netflix and got a STEAL, here's the details:
Netflix paid the entire $100 million budget for K-Pop Demon Hunters plus a $25 million fee to Sony Pictures, resulting in a $20 million profit for Sony on the deal, according to SlashFilm and other reports. As a result, Netflix controls the film and its future franchise potential, while Sony receives a much smaller slice of the profits from soundtrack sales, music publishing, and potential merchandise.
If you have been online at all you could see the massive potential and this is easily a billion dollar franchise they bought for only 125 million.
Sony sold it too Netflix since they were worried it wouldn’t do well as a theatrical release. Safe too say, they were so so so so wrong. So lets check out some of the numbers:
Music
First the music, which is a large part of the film, has done extremely well…