First day figures are out! And it looks really good! Which is great, because it is a really really good movie, and I want it to make money, so more people make really really good movies.
Fan Box Office Reports: First Day, Looks Good!
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Fan Early Reports: Release Strategy and Morning Occupancy
HAPPY SHAHRUKH DAY!!!!!! HAPPY FAN RELEASE DAY!!!! I only have to wait 8 more hours! (stupid job) In the meantime, there is some early interesting information I can share.
Happy Fan Day (in India)!!! Reports from the front
Happy Fan Day! The stupid distributors are being mean and stupid and not letting me go to a sneak preview tonight (like they did for Dilwale and Happy New Year, and even Prem Ratan Dhan Payo! Come on, man!), so I have to wait until tonight to actually watch it. But, in the meantime, I’ll be giving reports from the front as it comes in from the Indian websites. Not reviews (who cares about those, right?), but box office sales.
(also, that header image is Shahrukh in London with his wax statue in Madame Tussaud’s which has been dressed up to look like Gaurav. Creepy, right?)
Seiches and Fan’s Rapidly Approaching Release Date
I don’t have anything to watch this weekend! Maybe I will actually be desperate enough to try out a Telugu release in theaters (Sardaar Gabbar Singh is supposed to be a sequel to a remake of Dabangg, and I feel like I have seen Dabangg enough that I could probably figure out what is happening). But after weeks of having something new and exciting every Friday, the Hindi prospects this week are just dismal.
1st Quarter Box Office: In Stars We Trust
Bollywoodhungama, because they are the best in the world, have posted a summary of the 1st quarter 2016 box office totals. And the picture is pretty clear: Major Male Stars still run the world.
Weekend Global Box Office: Kapoor and Sons Loses Its Audience
Bollywoodhungama has the global figures for the weekend again. Yay! It’s my favorite part of the week! Well, not my favorite part (new release Friday beats it easily), but it’s up there!
Global Box Office: As expected, Kapoor and Sons Does Well
Kapoor and Sons opened in Pakistan! What the heck? A movie with a gay main character is allowed to play, but Neerja isn’t? I guess it really is about patriotism, not religion. Or else Karan’s clever avoidance of actually using the word “gay” (or boyfriend or homosexual or anything else specific) paid off.
Weekend Global Box Office: Regional Wins, Hindi Sinks
Everyone is pretty much in agreement that the big story of the global box office this weekend is that Punjabi films are breaking records. But the flipside of that story is of course that Hindi films are doing TERRIBLE.
Global Weekend Box Office Report: Poor Jai Gangaajal
Well, this is just sad! In every country except New Zealand and Australia, Jai Gangaajal did terribly and Neerja in its 3rd week beat it both per screen and by screen count. (Full info available here)
Jai Gangaajal Non-Review, No Spoilers Because I didn’t See It, but lots of Box Office Data!
Ending my several week streak of seeing the new movie every Friday, I DID NOT see Jai Gangaajal last night. But it’s still worth talking about, because of the reasons I didn’t/was not able to see it. And why maybe those reasons are affecting the box office in general.
Weekend Box Office Globally: Fitoor, Tere Bin Laden, Challenged by Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, and Malayalam Releases
I already put up a detailed post about how Neerja in particular is doing (short answer: Spectacularly! Long answer: Spectacularly considering the complete lack of faith in it shown by distributors), but what about the non-Neerja films? How are they doing overseas?
Neerja Box Office Update: What should distributors learn from this?
Bollywoodhungama not only provide the global figures for the weekend today, they also provided a handy comparison for Neerja against other films of the same type. No, not historical based on true story dramas, other female led pictures.
Neerja Week Two Box Office: 2 Good Signs, and One Bad
Going into it’s second weekend, Neerja is poised to do even better than it did during it’s first. And not just because of good word of mouth.
Neerja: Full Weekend Figures, Beats Airlift Per Screen
Well, “steady”. With the understanding that the box office is always going to drop off a little after the weekend. But it didn’t drop off nearly as much as it could have.
Neerja Overseas Box Office: Per Screen Average is Shockingly good
The overseas figures are published in detail, yay!!!! And, as always, thank you BollywoodHungama. Oh, and the figures are so above average, I actually checked my math twice.
Neerja Box Office: Quality is Recognized, Huge Growth Over Weekend
BollywoodHungama has the figures for the first 3 days, and they are really interesting. Both inside and outside India.
Deadpool Going After Indian Market? Last Weekend’s Box Office for Fitoor, Deadpool, and Sanam Re
I still haven’t seen Deadpool, because I am swamped by Malayalam films. I wasn’t sure if I ever would bother with it, at least before it hit DVD. But then moviemavengal told me it uses an Indian song in the opening scene, and I was all in!
That also made me check out how it is doing in the Indian box office, just in case that Indian scored opening was part of a move on the Indian market.
Fitoor Box Office Collections: Start of a Trend for UTV?
Bollywoodhungama has some inside rumors about Fitoor to go along with their box office figures from the weekend (which are dismal). But in a bigger sense, they bring up the question, what does this mean for UTV as a studio? I am wondering, what does it mean for all the studios? Is this a sign of a change of times?
Sanam Re opens better than Fitoor, But Only in India
Very very early box office figures are out, showing both Fitoor and Sanam Re had a slow opening, but Sanam Re was ever so slightly better. It remains to be seen what will happen in the next few days, and what the worldwide figures will look like.
What do Akshay Kumar and Jimmy Stewart have in Common? (warning! Boring accounting info below! Although there is a little Shahrukh right at the end)
Akshay Kumar and Jimmy Stewart actually have a lot in common! Reliable hard-working long-term popular movie stars who managed to combine a variety of crowd-pleasing roles with some solid acting turns. But what I am talking about today is just economics.
Airlift at the end of Week 2 Compared to Dilwale: Akshay is on track to beat SRK for the first time since 2006!
Airlift is rounding the corner of one more week of box office dominance. It’s possible that Ghayal Once Again or Sanam Teri Kasam may come up to challenge it but I doubt it. On the other hand, Fitoor is definitely going to knock it out of theaters next weekend. So, really, we are in the homestretch and can start making final box office estimates.
Box Office Box Office Box Office! All sorts of random data
The weekend figures have been totaled now, which means bollywoodhungama and other sites are putting out their analysis. And I am going to steal their figures and do my own analysis.
Box Office Report: A sports film, A sex comedy, and a patriotic drama walk into a bar….
Box office figures are out for last week/weekend! No big surprises here. Everything did about what you would expect it to do. But it is still nice to have that confirmation!
Box Office Update: Airlift Continues to Soar, KKHH3 Finds Its Level
Airlift, Wazir, Dilwale, Bajirao: Global Box Office Collections
Once again, the raw data can all be seen at bollywoodhungama. I’ve already talked about the local numbers for Airlift in particular, but now figures are available for international territories for the whole week.
Read on to see how it all shook out.
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