Bollywoodhungama has weekend global figures.  Which support my guess that Sanam Re is going to win the weekend at home, but Fitoor will take overseas.

Fitoor is barely winning, though.  In America, it was beaten by a Telugu release, Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gadha, which had 27 fewer screens (120 to 147).  Just the fact that a Telegu film distributor was able to edge out 120 screens from UTV on opening weekend is a bad sign, and then to do noticeably better on fewer screens, that’s just embarrassing.

Airlift is holding steady in the US, with 35 screens and a $2,000 per screen average, better than Fitoor‘s per screen average on its opening weekend, which again, is just embarrassing for UTV.  Ghayal Once Again has dropped to about a $1,000 per screen average in the US, but is still doing around $2,000 in Canada.  I’m going to go ahead and chalk that up to the different immigration patterns, my impression is that Canada has a greater majority of North Indians within the diaspora than the US does.  In America, the biggest surprise is a Malayalam film, Action Hero Biju, which is only on 9 screens, and in its second week, but handily beat Ghayal and has the highest per screen average of all, at almost $3.5 thousand per screen.

Outside of North America, Fitoor is doing pretty well.  Mostly thanks to number of screens and lack of competition.  It’s the only Indian film playing in UAE (at least, the only one reporting numbers), and it has 56 screens in the UK to Airlift‘s 14.  In New Zealand and Australia, for some reason, it is fighting for screens with Ghayal.  Not sure if that’s because UTV thought Fitoor would do badly in those territories and didn’t bother, or if it’s because Reliance thought Ghayal would do especially well there.  Either way, apparently if the audience can only choose between super action violent Ghayal in the second week, or super romantic Fitoor in week one, they are going with Fitoor.  Heck, it could be as simple as the fact that it’s summer in New Zealand and Australia, and people want to watch a movie set in Kashmir and try to cool off!

And then there’s Malaysia, always the funny one.  Not only is their top film a Tamil release (well, okay, that’s kind of predictable, considering immigration patterns), they are STILL running Bajrangi Bhaijaan!  And also Dilwale and Bajirao (Dilwale is beating both of the others in box office).  But Bajrangi is the one that blows my mind!  It’s been well over 6 months, and people are apparently still showing up to see it Malaysia.  It’s even got 4 screens to Dilwale‘s 3 and Bajirao‘s 1.