“Ever since 2021, when the pandemic was still raging the world, Sony Animation has begun releasing their original films onto the streaming service Netflix with the pandemic affected delay, The Mitchells vs the Machines, which was an understandable choice as we were still in the midst of the pandemic at the time, even if theater restrictions have mostly been eased, and won over critics and audiences when it premiered in April of 2021, and later followed suit with Vivo in August of that same year, to not as glowing reviews but still pretty good, and also had Wish Dragon, which even without COVID, was always intended to be a streaming exclusive worldwide excluding China as I highly doubt it would have gotten a large audience anyways, even Hotel Transylvania’s final film was cursed with Sony Animation’s streaming spree, with Transformania after a few delays (one of those dates (October 1st, 2021) could have this sequel compete with MGM’s The Addams Family 2 which did get a theater release that nobody wanted), was released on NOT Netflix, but on Prime Video on January 14th, 2022.

Cutting forward to 2024, the year after the critical and box office hit, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (the follow up to the 2018 modern classic, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) became the animated film of the year, knowing that Sony Animation actually had a future in cinemas, with one highly successful film…

And then on June 6th, 2024, it was announced that their next movie, K*POP: Demon Hunters (a film about a trio of girls who fight monsters) was announced to NOT make it to movie theaters like everyone had predicted and instead… be on Netflix for no reason, which was just absolute nonsense and there was no reason for this to skip theaters completely and then they released the film on June 20th with most people not knowing that it exists, but the few people that saw this gave it favorable reviews, if it came out in 2022 on the service then it wouldn’t be a huge deal, but since it came out long after the pandemic ended and movie theaters have slowly but surely reopened, I think this was a BS of a move by Sony to not put this out on the big screen where at least Pixar and Illumination have put out original stories on the big screen like Elio and Migration, sure they both underperformed even with rave reviews, but at least they were given a shot on the big screen, but with this one even with hard working animators working on this film, Sony didn’t give a crap and instead had slop like Madame Web, Morbius, Kraven the Hunter, Harold and the Purple Crayon, and the 2026 basketball movie, Goat (also from Sony Pictures Animation) reach movie theaters, even if Across the Spider Verse made over $600 million dollars worldwide, it didn’t make sense for their next movie to skip theaters completely, who even made that choice should honestly regret that decision and never pull that stunt again (unless you got Gennedy Tartakovsky’s Fixed which is also going to the streamer, which was initially set for cinemas before Warner Bros pulled the plug, and which it would honestly feel like TV quality in terms of animation wise anyways), and focus on the big screen after Beyond the Spider Verse’s release.

This was the final nail in the coffin for Netflix in terms of collaborating with Sony Animation of not letting their non-Spider Verse movies (except for Goat, which not everyone wants that) hit the big screen

You know what, that’s what I’m here to tell you about why I’m doing this is to give this movie that didn’t belong to Netflix a chance on the big screen, to give audiences who don’t have Netflix, that doesn’t count the Los Angeles area as they’re already playing in theaters in that area for award season eligibility.

I’m here to explain about Regal Cinemas, which later this Summer will be putting out the 2023 animated feature, Leo at their theaters taking part of the 2025 Summer Movie Express, which in this case, Leo was actually released on Netflix, which could leave the door open for any potential theatrical engagements for ANY of their animated movies going forward

And this includes Sony Pictures Animation’s recent releases that deserve to be seen in theaters more than recent slop like Paramount’s upcoming Smurfs and Sony’s own Harold and the Purple Crayon, K*POP: Demon Hunters, which the two can make an agreement to bring these two films together for a double feature event on Labor Day weekend (beginning August 29th) or Columbus Day weekend (October 10th) which will have $5 admission for all showtimes of this film, and can have a chance for non Netflix subscribers to enjoy this film especially if it will be an award season favorite at the end of the year.

Why August 29th or October 10th?, that’s because the entire Summer is likely filled up with the latest Summer blockbusters and when they’re taking a break from the big releases until the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, and this film can happily wait until Labor Day or Columbus Day to have its time to shine on the big screen

The Regal, Cinemark, and AMC Locations that can happily present Sony & Netflix’s “K*POP: Demon Hunters” on Aug 29-Sept 4 or October 10-30 should be the following Regal theaters in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Nashville, Knoxville, Orlando, Atlanta, Scranton, Philadelphia, Dallas, Charlotte, Hazleton, Harrisburg, Akron, Indianapolis, Miami, Fort Worth, Houston, Albuquerque, Bowling Green, Lexington, Plato, and more, if this campaign turns out to be a success.

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I think it's a huge blow for cinemas that needed more original stories like Elio, Migration, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Sinners, and IF in a world where sequels and franchises rule theaters nowadays.

Netflix should start considering putting out some of their animated movies in theaters starting with this one, not just in the LA area in order to be Oscar eligible, but everywhere or they could sell the rights of this movie to A24, so it can guarantee a chance on the big screen (limited or wide) as A24 should have more animation output, which this would be a great addition to their library