KPop Demon Hunters: An Empire Podcast Interview Special
The Empire Film Podcast
Bauer Media
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans' golden animated movie, KPop Demon Hunters, is the kind of phenomenon that comes along once in a blue moon, dominating both the Netflix charts since its release last June, and the music charts over the last few months. Now, fresh from success at the Grammys, the Oscars are firmly in its sights. So it's the perfect time for KPop Demon Hunters' writer/director duo, Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, to sit down virtually with our Alex Godfrey for a deep dive into the movie's origins and subsequent success. Enjoy.
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| 1:36.5 | K-pop Demon Hunters was quite simply one of the biggest movie phenomenons of last year. |
| 1:41.8 | An animated movie about Huntrix, a K-pop girl group who, well, hunt demons. |
| 1:46.3 | It debuted on Netflix last June without much fanfare, just another movie seemingly destined to be lost in the shuffle. But then something funny happened. It |
| 1:52.4 | found an audience, beguiled by its blend of cracking action, humour, heart and tunes. And then |
| 1:59.9 | that audience began to grow, and grow grow and grow. A couple of months |
| 2:05.3 | after it launched, a sing-along version was released in cinemas for one weekend only and did |
| 2:09.2 | Bofo box office, as they say. The soundtrack album has dominated the charts for months while |
| 2:15.0 | golden. One of the songs from the movie hit number one in the UK. |
| 2:19.8 | And the Netflix records began to fall. |
| 2:21.7 | First, it became the company's most watched original movie. |
| 2:24.6 | It began life as the Sony Pictures animation film, |
| 2:27.6 | although it became a Netflix property around 2021 while it was still in production. |
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