Prior to this article, I had never heard of the movie, Red Notice which is Netflix's biggest hit for now. Only last week I became aware of the show, KPop Demon Hunters which will soon be their biggest hit.
I became aware of the film because my Youtube and Facebook feed suddenly became full of Asain actors doing a meme of the dance moves of one of the songs from the show, "My Little Soda Pop". It peaked my interest to see what this was about and led me to the movie. "My Little Soda Pop" is specifically written to be a catchy pop tune to be sung by a airhead type boy band. It works. It will eventally become the song, parents will like to hate.
I suspect if you have kids or grandkids, you may have been inadverdantly hearing the song and the other songs from the show.
There is so much more than the fact that this is about to become the Netflix's biggest show ever. Although it is an American produces show, it is co-directed by a Korean woman who reached into her korean culture to create the story. Likewise, as you can see from above, most of the voice cast is Asian. Most of the voice actors are not well known actors.
I cannot find the production cost for the film, but I suspect it is quite low for today's hollywood. The cast costs were minimal. But it brings up a achilles heel. There are no stars to do concert tours. They also have songs with no persons attached to them. Most of the song singers were not even the voice actors.
Thai TV and other Asian production companies have found that making a show is just one aspect of the revenue stream of the shows. Thai companies extenisvely utilze merchandising, fan meetings, concert tours to maximize their intelectual properties. Everything is a marketing opportunity and they are raking in the money.
I’ve never even seen Red Notice on my Netflix list.
De gustibus non est disputandum.
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Never heard of either.
I DO remember when Netflix said “Girls” was a hit.
In reality it was a train wreck with Netflix trying to boost a failure.
I wonder how it compares to “Grim”.
My 8-y/o daughter has probably watched it 100 times by now as well as downloaded the soundtrack off of Apple Music.
If a movie with the following plot can become the most streamed movie ever, that is sad commentary on the state of entertainment in the US:
“Netflix’s animated musical follows the fictional K-pop girl group called HUNTR/X, who lead double lives as demon hunters, as they face off against a rival band, the Saja Boys, whose members are secretly demons in disguise.”
JMO, YMMV.
I got dizzy trying to read that posting.....
Ive watched it 5 times so far with my kids, and we play the songs constantly around the house.
“...K-pop girl group called HUNTR/X, who lead double lives as demon hunters, as they face off against a rival band, the Saja Boys, whose members are secretly demons in disguise.”
I can hardly wait.
Red Notice was a fun movie.
K-pop is a bit on the young side for my tastes.
I’ve seen a lot of Korean and Indian (Bollywood) stuff on Netflix lately. I am not sure what I did in my algorithm to get fed those as choices. But I have to go back and click on some all-American stuff.
“Do not go there.“
Or what?
Oh, I went there.
I went there and I set up camp.
An OMG update. Netflix and SONY have blown the merchandising. There isn’t enough. Allegedly.
From YouTuber WDW Pro...
https://youtu.be/p5XUUFqnl5o?feature=shared
Meanwhile, Netflix is gonna sell Meghan Markle’s crap.
Glad I’m not a shareholder or a customer.
What about Some Ting Wong and We Too Lo?