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    Indian Box Office Thread | Jawan overtakes Pathaan, becomes highest grossing Indian movie of 2023

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    I am never doubting Rajamouli again after this. I was bit skeptical about this movie due to the British backdrop which isn't the most exciting one but boy did Rajamouli managed to pull it off again. I think this is Rajamouli's 2nd best work direction wise just behind Eega. The action sequences were so spectacularly done for the most part. That opening sequence where Ram Charan tries to control mob was so good. NTR was amazing which isn't surprising to me as he is a brilliant actor but I was bit surprised at also how good Ram Charan performed. Rajamouli really manages to get the best out of his heroes. I am gonna watch this again in theaters.

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    New Year Weekend Thread (31 Dec - 2 Jan)

    in Numbers and Data

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    1 hour ago, narniadis said:

    It would appear they want it to release "worldwide" at the same time? Not sure otherwise, but its not the first date change for the film (from my limited reading.) 

     

    Sucks since it was one of the small bright spots on the January calendar here in the US.

    There are multiple reasons for the postponement. Some states in India already announced that theatres would be operating at only 50% capacity in next few weeks. Delhi even closed down the theatres completely few days ago.  In coming days, few more states are expected to impose restrictions on movie theatres occupancy.

     

    Another major reason is that RRR is mainly a Telugu movie (not a Bollywood movie) and it's biggest market in India comes from 2 Southern States where Telugu is the main language. These 2 states alone are likely to contribute almost 50-60% of the overall Indian market for RRR.  In one of these states, the state government is sadly playing politics and is having a fight against the film industry because the head of the state is an ego-maniac. The state government passed an order recently that brought down the ticket rates through out the state. In some of the movie theatres, the ticket rates have been reduced by almost 60-80%. The state government also said that they will not grant any permission for more than 4 shows. They recently seized some movie theatres which were not following these new restrictions imposed by government. Some of the movie theatres have said that it is not sustainable for them to operate at such low ticket prices.  For Telugu movies, usually first day and first weekend is huge part of business and that's where distributors recover most of their money by having more than 4 shows and hiked prices on first weekend. The movie was sold at high rates to distributors in this state assuming that there will be more than 4 shows and hiked prices atleast for first 1-2 weeks. But because of this latest move from the government, even if the movie gets extremely good WOM, the distributors will never be able to recover the money they invested due to low ticket prices. The distributors already approached the RRR production house to renegotiate the prices due to this recent move from government but it's going to be hard. RRR crew is probably hoping that this state government will revert back these changes in next few months but I am not too optimistic because the head of the state is a freaking corrupted moron

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    Indian Box Office Thread | Jawan overtakes Pathaan, becomes highest grossing Indian movie of 2023

    in International Box Office

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    7 hours ago, oMeriMombatti said:

    Never seen anything like this in India ... it's even bigger than Baahubali 2 if we take seating capacity into consideration. Don't understand why it didn't release on more screens here ... could have broken OD record. Also with more screens it had more room to grow over weekend especially with the kind of WOM it has.

    nah, it's not close to BB2...BB2 was something which I don't think will happen again in near future in India..how do you think Infinity War could've broken Baahubali2's record if given more screens? Baahubali2 opening day was roughly 150Cr INR whereas Avengers is around 40C INR...no movie will be crossing Baahubali2's opening day number in future unless the makers decide to make Baahubali3, which isn't happening anyways

    China Box Office Thread | Deadpool & Wolverine- July 26

    in China At The Box Office

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    On 5/13/2017 at 4:52 PM, jb007 said:

    Baahubali 1 & 2 movie box office grosses are exaggerated.  They will make sure BB2 will remain no.1.

     

    My partner (in my second movie) bought distribution rights to Baahubali 1 for Karnataka State. While the trades and paid media were reporting bogus grosses of Rs. 79 crores in Karnataka, the actual was Rs. 43 Crores.

     

    So, the only Bahubali 2 grosses that are trustworthy are the ones tracked by Rentrak locations like USA, Australia, UK etc.

     

     

    If the part1 didn't gross 79C in Karnataka, part2 rights wouldn't have been bought for price of 35C, that too amidst protests against movie in karnataka last month. Part1 grossed around 79C, its Nett was around 68C and its distributor share was around 38-39C. Like you said, if part1 grossed around 40C, its distributor share would have been around 20C. In that scenario, no idiot would have bought part2 for 35C price.

    Boxoffice tracking in India isn't perfect but as far as Telugu movies boxoffice reporting is concerned, ABO's numbers(Andhraboxoffice.com) are mostly reliable.(mostly +/- 5%). ABO gives detailed area wise breakdown atleast when it  comes to AP and Telengana. Some producers might give exaggerated numbers for publicity purposes but not everyone does that.

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