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Mohanlal’s highly anticipated Major Ravi directed Kandahar which released on December 16, has bombed at the Kerala box-office
The film which opened in Kerala in 125 screens was reduced to 80 odd on day two of its release!
What went wrong with the film which cost around Rs 5.5Crore to make and market?
Says a theatre owner screening the film: “The content of Kandahar is largely responsible for its failure, especially the climax. It failed even to take an opening, by evening on the day of its release collections had nosedived. Even die hard fans of Mohanlal have not been able to digest the film.”
In a small town in Travancore area where Mohanlal is the biggest star, there were 146 people on Monday evening show at a theatre which can accommodate 800 audiences. At many centers it has touched hold over, and may be removed after a week. No Mohanlal film in recent times has opened so badly
Satyam,”Aab sharmana kaisa”I think Amitabh Bachchan also played a lead actor in this film and he alongwith Mohan lal promoted it in Mumbai on 16th DEC.I was expecting an update from Yakuza,like he did on Sholay and Don specially for me few days back.Hope he is not in Australia and all his family members are ok this time.
This weeks release Bhoot And Friends was very dull with 2-3% collections. The film has no chance at the boxoffice.
Tees Maar Khan collections fell badly from Monday after a big weekend. The first week was around the 50 crore nett mark and the the 8th day had a huge drop. Overall the film is not a flop thanks to huge opening but is a big disappointment as per the expectations from the film.
Toonpur Ka Superrhero and Isi Life Mein had very bad collections and are practically out of the theatres. Isi Life Mein just about manage to complete three days at the theatres.
Actually the film contrary to some of the reporting will lose money. This was an expensive film and plus they also went overboard on the advertising. But again we see this ridiculous standard where no matter how big a film as long as it’s seen to touch 60 or 70 crores people start calling it safe! Meanwhile the same BOI were arguing on ‘cost factors’ that Ghajini was a hit but couldn’t be called a blockbuster and so on! The TMK fall has been so colossal that even BOI stopped defending it after the weekend. But they still say stuff like ‘huge opening’ and ’4th biggest opening’ and what not. All of that is par for the course. We expected it. This film is definitely losing money, there’s no two ways about it. One of the pieces somewhere suggested it would lose at least 5 crores. I suspect it’s significantly more than this.
Spot on there Satyam. BOI behaved like idiots declaring it a hit on the morning of fri. I knew this would crash. Akki fans are living in the la la land of the song in this film. This crash is no different to the 1 in KITES. Farah and co bombarded us with interviews, promotions heck they travelled half the world and what not. This film is a failure.
It just makes me laugh soo much that many were saying this would this record and that record and now their just hoping it recovers it’s investment lol
The year has come to a close and it’s time to salute the winners of the box-office battle. But instead of crowning the highest grosser, we’ve selected movies that earned well in multiples of the money invested in them. In the trade world, everyone from analysts and theatre owners to head honchos of multiplexes and distributors had a unanimous answer — in terms of return on investment, the number one film of 2010 is Dabangg, which made `140 crore.
Komal Nahta, editor of Film Information, asserts, “Dabangg is the highest earner of the year. Not only did it do phenomenally at the box-office, it also fetched a great price for the satellite rights. The music too continued to do well long after the film’s release.”
DabanggOne reason why Dabangg was made at a reasonable cost is that there’s nothing big in the movie except for Salman Khan. According to Sanjay Ghai of Mukta Films Ltd, “The director and heroine were both new. The film didn’t boast of extravagant sets or exclusive outdoors, so the production cost was automatically in control, at ` 32 crore minus Salman’s fee. In terms of volume, it returned about 300 per cent.”
Question them about Ekta Kapoor’s relatively economical Love Sex Aur Dhoka directed by Dibakar Bannerjee, which cost about ` 4 crore and grossed over ` 10 crore, and Mumbai distributor Ramesh Sippy says, “Although LSD had a turnover much in excess of its cost, it’s not an all-India hit nor will it go down memory lane. It is a commendable effort that paid off very well, but the fact remains that Dabangg worked all across.”
In the same vein, Suneil Wadhwa, a major distributor from CP (north India) territory, adds that universal appeal makes Dabangg the numero uno movie of 2010. “It worked equally well in single screens and multiplexes, in all centres from big metros to small towns, and struck a chord with the audience. Every distributor and exhibitor made money,” he explains.
The trade market shares a similar stance on Golmaal 3 being the second biggest hit of the year. “Ajay Devgn and Kareena Kapoor were the biggest actors and it maintained a good risk-reward ratio. Being a Diwali release, it not only opened very well, but also went on to do good business in the third and fourth weeks, crossing over `100 crore,” says Delhi-based distributor Sanjay Mehta. Interestingly, Golmaal 3 scored over Dabangg in the Mumbai territory.
While a section of the trade put Prakash Jha’s political drama Raajneeti at number three, trade analyst Amod Mehra feels I Hate Love Storys, too, makes the grade. “Costing about `25 crore, it returned about `45 crore, which is very good,” he says, adding that Sajid Khan’s Housefull comes next, making the top five.
Apart from these, Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai and Peepli Live too make it to the hit category while Ishqiya and Tere Bin Laden are said to have done average business. Sanjay Ghai says Shankar’s Robot (Hindi) too did well earning `30 crore, while the figures of the Tamil original aren’t being disclosed by Sun, which produced and distributed the Rajnikanth-Aishwarya Rai Bachchan sci-fi extravaganza. Karan Johar’s My Name Is Khan with Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol did very well internationally, but according to Ashish Saxena, CEO, Big Cinemas, “It didn’t make money for Fox Star, which distributed the film worldwide.”
Sukanya Verma in Mumbai
What an unbelievably temperamental year!
The year 2010 showed the door to established filmmakers like Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Guzaarish), Karan Johar (My Name is Khan), Mani Ratnam (Raavan), Ashutosh Gowariker (Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey) and Anurag Basu (Kites).
While none of these movies were awful in entirety, they fell short of living up to their maker’s potential or reputation.
In contrast, smaller-budget films helmed by bright first-timers like Abhishek Chaubey, Anusha Rizvi and Vikramaditya Motwane flourished under the brand value of producers like Vishal Bhardwaj, Aamir Khan and Anurag Kashyap respectively.
what rubbish! MNIK – even I didn’t like the film but writing that “it showed the door to KJO” – what nonsense! if 90 cr nett is showing the door (by whom???) – then this writer has gone nuts – if u don’t like a film personally – fine but don’t make such absurd statements
actually MNIK didn’t do more 65 crores or so in my view but even BOI have given it 72 crores which is the most liberal number imaginable on it. But then TMK which has done 50 crores in week 1 according to them might do as much eventually.
Tees Maar Khan is showing collections around 85% lower on its 8th day compared to its first day.
The first week collections were around the 50 crore nett mark but weekdays had unimaginable daily drops. The film still has plenty of screen space in its second week but the problem is it is not collecting. Exhibitors have kept the film for another week as they did not have an alternative.
The first week distributor share is in the 28.50 crore region and the film is likely to finish in the 35 crore region.
Tees Maar Khan dropped heavily in its second weekend as it collected around 7.25 crore nett. The drop from first weekend was around 80%. The ten day total is approx 56.50 crore nett.
Tees Maar Khan is likely to finish its second week with around 60 crore nett business and it may add another 3 crore thereafter for a 63 crore nett lifetime total. The distributor share will be 35 crore approx.
This would make it the sixth biggest grosser of the year but expectations were for it be amongst the top four at least.
‘Fockers’ Frowned Upon, ‘Grit’ Glows Over New Year’s
by Brandon Gray
January 2, 2011
The story of New Year’s weekend was the same as Christmas weekend: what’s supposed to be one of the most bustling times of the year was shattered by a largely poor slate of movies. Little Fockers was the low-flying top draw, but True Grit (2010) continued to be a beacon. Overall business was off around 27 percent from the same weekend last year, when Avatar dominated, and attendance was off significantly from the last time New Year’s weekend landed on Dec. 31-Jan. 2, back in 2004-2005.
When is passing $100 million in just 12 days not so hot? When the preceding movie did it in eight days and had nearly double the attendance. Such was the case with Little Fockers, which dipped 15 percent to an estimated $26.3 million over the weekend for a $103.2 million tally in 12 days. Predecessor Meet the Fockers, which played on the same days and dates six years ago, generated $41.7 million over New Year’s weekend, held better and had collected $162.5 million in total (the equivalent of over $200 million adjusted for ticket price inflation).
True Grit stood its ground in second place, racking up an estimated $24.5 million. With $86.8 million in 12 days, the Western remake topped No Country for Old Men ($74.3 million) to become Joel and Ethan Coen’s biggest movie yet, and it surpassed the final estimated attendances of Young Guns II and Shanghai Noon and has set its sights on Pale Rider and the first Young Guns in a matter of days. True Grit’s the most attended Western drama since Tombstone from Christmas 1993.
Tron Legacy repeated in third with an estimated $18.3 million, down four percent for a $130.9 million score in 17 days. After blazing past the first Tron’s estimated attendance, it’s about to eclipse the final haul of The Last Airbender.
Family or kids movies often receive the biggest bumps on New Year’s weekend, so don’t take Yogi Bear’s 66 percent jump as a reversal of fortune. The talking-animal comedy maintained its average ways, grossing an estimated $13 million for a $66.1 million tally in 17 days. The older Tangled was more impressive with its estimated $10 million sixth weekend, raising its total to $168 million in 40 days.
Gulliver’s Travels had its first full weekend, but its woes carried on. The family comedy pulled in an estimated $9.1 million, up only 44 percent from its two-day opening for a paltry $27.2 million in nine days. It remained in eighth place and couldn’t top its 20th Century Fox stable mate The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which drew an estimated $10.5 million in its fourth weekend. With $87.1 million in 24 days, Voyage lost more ground to The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe but it gained some on The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
In addition to True Grit, several dramas continued to post solid numbers, but cumulatively they couldn’t stave off the box office doldrums caused by a lack of mainstream successes at the top of the chart. The Fighter logged an estimated $10 million, up 31 percent for a $46.4 million tally. Black Swan attracted an estimated $8.5 million, increasing 35 percent for a $47.4 million haul. The King’s Speech leapt 70 percent (due, in part, to being nationwide for two of the three days last weekend) to an estimated $7.6 million, improving its total to $22.8 million.
Saw the Little Fockers and must say was really disappointed. At least the first two films had some funny moments but this one really did not even feel like much of a comedy.
Band Baaja Baaraat Has Huge Jump In Fourth Weekend
Monday 3rd January 2011 17.00 IST
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
The collections of Band Baaja Baaraat shot up in its fourth weekend compared to its third weekend. The film lost a lot of screen space in week three but managed to get extra shows in week four.
The film collected around 1 crore nett over its third weekend but collections were nearly double in the fourth weekend at around 1.90 crore nett.
The film has now collected around 18.75 crore nett in 24 days and will be over 20 crore nett in four weeks. To put the fourth week figures in perspective is that they are likely to be the third highest of 2010 after only Raajneeti and Dabangg which is a huge feat for the 10 crore film.
Top Nett Fourth Weeks 2010
1. Raajneeti – 4.85 crore
2. Dabangg – 3.97 crore
3. Band Baaja Baaraat – 3 crore plus (expected)
4. Golmaal 3 – 2.85 crore
5. Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai -2.18 crore
6. Badmaash Company – 1.82 crore
7. My Name Is Khan – 1.78 crore
8. Housefull – 1.71 crore
9. Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge? – 1.51 crore
10. Robot (Hindi) -0.90 crore
As can be seen above the film is up there with great company in the fourth week and Band Baaja Baaraat looks to be heading for near 25 crore nett business now.
as usual we see here the idiotic, the more idiotic and the most idiotic:
To call Raajneeti simply ‘overflow’ and even assuming this is right (I have some reason to doubt this given that these guys run the numbers a number of different ways to suit their narratives..) is simply silly. Here’s a 90-95 crore grosser that has done more than every film around with the exception of Ghajini, 3I, Dabanng. Recently G3 matched or exceeded it. For that genre the results were simply stupendous and it is completely misleading to call such a film anything less than very successful. Audience participation should count for something.
Meanwhile we see MNIK pretty low down just scraping into the list at commission to coverage and it’s hard to not believe that the overseas numbers have been factored in here to arrive at this result. Otherwise comparing Rajneeti with MNIK and their respective grosses how could the latter be even in that lowest run if the former is simply overflow?
Again to call a historic grosser like Dabanng simply a superhit is another one of the list’s absurdities.
I am making two points here. first off I don’t trust the math on which these judgments are based because in their pieces guys like Taran and Nahata sometimes just look at gross, sometimes they decide to include satellite rights and what not. Nahata very recently said that Raavan and Kites hadn’t lost all that much money when talking about some of the biggest flops of the year. But of course he didn’t give this impression earlier!
The second point is that even if the math on which these verdicts are based is honest this still doesn’t explain audience participation and hence you arrive at ratings that make no sense.
The other films that recovered their costs and were in the -5% to 10% return on investment range were Ishqiya, My Name Is Khan, Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge, Paathshaala, Khatta Meetha, Aisha, Lafangey Parindey, We Are Family, Anjaana Anjaani, Break Ke Baad and Tees Maar Khan. (Listed in Release Order)
Note – When the Worldwide rights have been sold off to a third party then that figure has been used for the return on investment. When the makers have distributed themselves then the production budget. The total revenue is the money earned from all revenue sources and for films that were sold to third party then the total revenue is for all the rights which were sold.
Saw Tees Maar Khan….and I have to say I was quite tickled, and chukled my way through it.
While G3 was unfunny and a huge piece of garbage this was one big piece of caricature, starting with the ‘nahiiiin’ screaming mother, to the film obsessed policeman (at the meeting) to the oscar crazy hero …oscar ki tammanna ne mere under sota hua kalakar jaga diya!! LOL!!
I grinned all the way through the caricatured ‘angrezi’ hakumat scene (which I do believe tries to manipulate the audience towards gaining popularity in many films).
The BEST was Katrina Kaif’s caricaturing of the useless filmi heroines of today obsessed with looking beautiful and nothing else. Her dialogues;
-main abhi makeup laga ke aati hoon,
-arre, important scene hai, aur make up lagao
-abhi speech tayyaar kar ke aati hoon,
-rollers lagaa ke aati hoon
-abhi dress change karke aati hoon (and she rushes for this change of clothes).
Speaking with a strong accent was the icing (it must have been easy for her though )..I’m fed up of this accent baazi of bollywood actors and actresses….also the singers.
She really fitted into that role. Her constant striking a pose brought to my mind the pictures at Pinkvilla LOL!
She should get the best comedian award for this.
Since I hate writing long comments I’ll forego the pleasure of taking other characters individually and going through their motions.
The only thing that jarred was the loudness and the constant shouting.
Why did the people like G3 and not this?
It must have gone over their heads
December 31, 2010 at 6:33 AM
Top 5: ‘TMK’ under-performs, ‘TKS’ poor, ‘ILM’ disaster
December 31, 2010 at 7:53 AM
http://entertainment.oneindia.in/bollywood/features/2010/tees-maar-khan-profit-zone-311210.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=DTN+India%3A
December 31, 2010 at 7:59 AM
Mohanlal’s Kandahar bombs!
Mohanlal’s highly anticipated Major Ravi directed Kandahar which released on December 16, has bombed at the Kerala box-office
The film which opened in Kerala in 125 screens was reduced to 80 odd on day two of its release!
What went wrong with the film which cost around Rs 5.5Crore to make and market?
Says a theatre owner screening the film: “The content of Kandahar is largely responsible for its failure, especially the climax. It failed even to take an opening, by evening on the day of its release collections had nosedived. Even die hard fans of Mohanlal have not been able to digest the film.”
In a small town in Travancore area where Mohanlal is the biggest star, there were 146 people on Monday evening show at a theatre which can accommodate 800 audiences. At many centers it has touched hold over, and may be removed after a week. No Mohanlal film in recent times has opened so badly
January 1, 2011 at 6:04 AM
thats what happens when they show a military guy with extra flab resembling a pregnant woman
January 1, 2011 at 7:22 AM
I’d take his weight over the weightlessness of most of contemporary Bombay stars!
January 1, 2011 at 3:38 AM
Satyam,”Aab sharmana kaisa”I think Amitabh Bachchan also played a lead actor in this film and he alongwith Mohan lal promoted it in Mumbai on 16th DEC.I was expecting an update from Yakuza,like he did on Sholay and Don specially for me few days back.Hope he is not in Australia and all his family members are ok this time.
January 1, 2011 at 7:21 AM
actually Bachchan has a very brief appearance here though they of course used him heavily in the advertising..
January 1, 2011 at 7:24 AM
Bhoot And Friends Very Dull Tees Maar Khan Falls
Saturday 1st January 2011 09.00 IST
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
This weeks release Bhoot And Friends was very dull with 2-3% collections. The film has no chance at the boxoffice.
Tees Maar Khan collections fell badly from Monday after a big weekend. The first week was around the 50 crore nett mark and the the 8th day had a huge drop. Overall the film is not a flop thanks to huge opening but is a big disappointment as per the expectations from the film.
Toonpur Ka Superrhero and Isi Life Mein had very bad collections and are practically out of the theatres. Isi Life Mein just about manage to complete three days at the theatres.
January 1, 2011 at 7:28 AM
Actually the film contrary to some of the reporting will lose money. This was an expensive film and plus they also went overboard on the advertising. But again we see this ridiculous standard where no matter how big a film as long as it’s seen to touch 60 or 70 crores people start calling it safe! Meanwhile the same BOI were arguing on ‘cost factors’ that Ghajini was a hit but couldn’t be called a blockbuster and so on! The TMK fall has been so colossal that even BOI stopped defending it after the weekend. But they still say stuff like ‘huge opening’ and ’4th biggest opening’ and what not. All of that is par for the course. We expected it. This film is definitely losing money, there’s no two ways about it. One of the pieces somewhere suggested it would lose at least 5 crores. I suspect it’s significantly more than this.
January 1, 2011 at 8:42 AM
Spot on there Satyam. BOI behaved like idiots declaring it a hit on the morning of fri. I knew this would crash. Akki fans are living in the la la land of the song in this film. This crash is no different to the 1 in KITES. Farah and co bombarded us with interviews, promotions heck they travelled half the world and what not. This film is a failure.
It just makes me laugh soo much that many were saying this would this record and that record and now their just hoping it recovers it’s investment lol
January 1, 2011 at 7:55 AM
Dabangg rated no 1 film of 2010
The year has come to a close and it’s time to salute the winners of the box-office battle. But instead of crowning the highest grosser, we’ve selected movies that earned well in multiples of the money invested in them. In the trade world, everyone from analysts and theatre owners to head honchos of multiplexes and distributors had a unanimous answer — in terms of return on investment, the number one film of 2010 is Dabangg, which made `140 crore.
Komal Nahta, editor of Film Information, asserts, “Dabangg is the highest earner of the year. Not only did it do phenomenally at the box-office, it also fetched a great price for the satellite rights. The music too continued to do well long after the film’s release.”
DabanggOne reason why Dabangg was made at a reasonable cost is that there’s nothing big in the movie except for Salman Khan. According to Sanjay Ghai of Mukta Films Ltd, “The director and heroine were both new. The film didn’t boast of extravagant sets or exclusive outdoors, so the production cost was automatically in control, at ` 32 crore minus Salman’s fee. In terms of volume, it returned about 300 per cent.”
Question them about Ekta Kapoor’s relatively economical Love Sex Aur Dhoka directed by Dibakar Bannerjee, which cost about ` 4 crore and grossed over ` 10 crore, and Mumbai distributor Ramesh Sippy says, “Although LSD had a turnover much in excess of its cost, it’s not an all-India hit nor will it go down memory lane. It is a commendable effort that paid off very well, but the fact remains that Dabangg worked all across.”
In the same vein, Suneil Wadhwa, a major distributor from CP (north India) territory, adds that universal appeal makes Dabangg the numero uno movie of 2010. “It worked equally well in single screens and multiplexes, in all centres from big metros to small towns, and struck a chord with the audience. Every distributor and exhibitor made money,” he explains.
The trade market shares a similar stance on Golmaal 3 being the second biggest hit of the year. “Ajay Devgn and Kareena Kapoor were the biggest actors and it maintained a good risk-reward ratio. Being a Diwali release, it not only opened very well, but also went on to do good business in the third and fourth weeks, crossing over `100 crore,” says Delhi-based distributor Sanjay Mehta. Interestingly, Golmaal 3 scored over Dabangg in the Mumbai territory.
While a section of the trade put Prakash Jha’s political drama Raajneeti at number three, trade analyst Amod Mehra feels I Hate Love Storys, too, makes the grade. “Costing about `25 crore, it returned about `45 crore, which is very good,” he says, adding that Sajid Khan’s Housefull comes next, making the top five.
Apart from these, Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai and Peepli Live too make it to the hit category while Ishqiya and Tere Bin Laden are said to have done average business. Sanjay Ghai says Shankar’s Robot (Hindi) too did well earning `30 crore, while the figures of the Tamil original aren’t being disclosed by Sun, which produced and distributed the Rajnikanth-Aishwarya Rai Bachchan sci-fi extravaganza. Karan Johar’s My Name Is Khan with Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol did very well internationally, but according to Ashish Saxena, CEO, Big Cinemas, “It didn’t make money for Fox Star, which distributed the film worldwide.”
January 1, 2011 at 7:56 AM
Bollywood’s Best Hindi Films of 2010
Sukanya Verma in Mumbai
What an unbelievably temperamental year!
The year 2010 showed the door to established filmmakers like Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Guzaarish), Karan Johar (My Name is Khan), Mani Ratnam (Raavan), Ashutosh Gowariker (Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey) and Anurag Basu (Kites).
While none of these movies were awful in entirety, they fell short of living up to their maker’s potential or reputation.
In contrast, smaller-budget films helmed by bright first-timers like Abhishek Chaubey, Anusha Rizvi and Vikramaditya Motwane flourished under the brand value of producers like Vishal Bhardwaj, Aamir Khan and Anurag Kashyap respectively.
http://www.rediff.com/movies/slide-show/slide-show-1-best-films-of-2010/20101231.htm
January 1, 2011 at 11:13 AM
what rubbish! MNIK – even I didn’t like the film but writing that “it showed the door to KJO” – what nonsense! if 90 cr nett is showing the door (by whom???) – then this writer has gone nuts – if u don’t like a film personally – fine but don’t make such absurd statements
(disclaimer: i HATE Kjo’s films
)
January 1, 2011 at 11:16 AM
actually MNIK didn’t do more 65 crores or so in my view but even BOI have given it 72 crores which is the most liberal number imaginable on it. But then TMK which has done 50 crores in week 1 according to them might do as much eventually.
Not sure where you got the 90 crore figure from!
January 1, 2011 at 11:33 AM
idea- a less than 40 cr opening.. and finishi9ng at 70 odd crores i guess.. is what i called shown the door!
January 1, 2011 at 11:51 AM
Rooney – tmk 49 crore weekend and IT WILL NOT make more than 65.
haha i wonder what people will call this. Looking forward to more bashing on tmk
January 1, 2011 at 12:39 PM
thats pathetic.. for the movie!! AND THATS disaster IMO..
as there are movies which fail to open.. but here it opened and fell so badly..
January 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM
Dunno about best or worst, but Peepli Live might be the most overrated film of last year.
January 3, 2011 at 7:50 AM
Tees Maar Khan Shows Humungous Drop On 8th Day
Friday 31st December 2010 15.00 IST
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
Tees Maar Khan is showing collections around 85% lower on its 8th day compared to its first day.
The first week collections were around the 50 crore nett mark but weekdays had unimaginable daily drops. The film still has plenty of screen space in its second week but the problem is it is not collecting. Exhibitors have kept the film for another week as they did not have an alternative.
The first week distributor share is in the 28.50 crore region and the film is likely to finish in the 35 crore region.
January 3, 2011 at 7:50 AM
Tees Maar Khan Has Heavy Drop In Second Weekend
Monday 3rd January 2010 14.30 IST
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
Tees Maar Khan dropped heavily in its second weekend as it collected around 7.25 crore nett. The drop from first weekend was around 80%. The ten day total is approx 56.50 crore nett.
Tees Maar Khan is likely to finish its second week with around 60 crore nett business and it may add another 3 crore thereafter for a 63 crore nett lifetime total. The distributor share will be 35 crore approx.
This would make it the sixth biggest grosser of the year but expectations were for it be amongst the top four at least.
January 3, 2011 at 7:58 AM
‘Fockers’ Frowned Upon, ‘Grit’ Glows Over New Year’s
by Brandon Gray
January 2, 2011
The story of New Year’s weekend was the same as Christmas weekend: what’s supposed to be one of the most bustling times of the year was shattered by a largely poor slate of movies. Little Fockers was the low-flying top draw, but True Grit (2010) continued to be a beacon. Overall business was off around 27 percent from the same weekend last year, when Avatar dominated, and attendance was off significantly from the last time New Year’s weekend landed on Dec. 31-Jan. 2, back in 2004-2005.
When is passing $100 million in just 12 days not so hot? When the preceding movie did it in eight days and had nearly double the attendance. Such was the case with Little Fockers, which dipped 15 percent to an estimated $26.3 million over the weekend for a $103.2 million tally in 12 days. Predecessor Meet the Fockers, which played on the same days and dates six years ago, generated $41.7 million over New Year’s weekend, held better and had collected $162.5 million in total (the equivalent of over $200 million adjusted for ticket price inflation).
True Grit stood its ground in second place, racking up an estimated $24.5 million. With $86.8 million in 12 days, the Western remake topped No Country for Old Men ($74.3 million) to become Joel and Ethan Coen’s biggest movie yet, and it surpassed the final estimated attendances of Young Guns II and Shanghai Noon and has set its sights on Pale Rider and the first Young Guns in a matter of days. True Grit’s the most attended Western drama since Tombstone from Christmas 1993.
Tron Legacy repeated in third with an estimated $18.3 million, down four percent for a $130.9 million score in 17 days. After blazing past the first Tron’s estimated attendance, it’s about to eclipse the final haul of The Last Airbender.
Family or kids movies often receive the biggest bumps on New Year’s weekend, so don’t take Yogi Bear’s 66 percent jump as a reversal of fortune. The talking-animal comedy maintained its average ways, grossing an estimated $13 million for a $66.1 million tally in 17 days. The older Tangled was more impressive with its estimated $10 million sixth weekend, raising its total to $168 million in 40 days.
Gulliver’s Travels had its first full weekend, but its woes carried on. The family comedy pulled in an estimated $9.1 million, up only 44 percent from its two-day opening for a paltry $27.2 million in nine days. It remained in eighth place and couldn’t top its 20th Century Fox stable mate The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which drew an estimated $10.5 million in its fourth weekend. With $87.1 million in 24 days, Voyage lost more ground to The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe but it gained some on The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
In addition to True Grit, several dramas continued to post solid numbers, but cumulatively they couldn’t stave off the box office doldrums caused by a lack of mainstream successes at the top of the chart. The Fighter logged an estimated $10 million, up 31 percent for a $46.4 million tally. Black Swan attracted an estimated $8.5 million, increasing 35 percent for a $47.4 million haul. The King’s Speech leapt 70 percent (due, in part, to being nationwide for two of the three days last weekend) to an estimated $7.6 million, improving its total to $22.8 million.
January 3, 2011 at 8:07 AM
Saw the Little Fockers and must say was really disappointed. At least the first two films had some funny moments but this one really did not even feel like much of a comedy.
January 3, 2011 at 5:00 PM
Band Baaja Baaraat Has Huge Jump In Fourth Weekend
Monday 3rd January 2011 17.00 IST
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
The collections of Band Baaja Baaraat shot up in its fourth weekend compared to its third weekend. The film lost a lot of screen space in week three but managed to get extra shows in week four.
The film collected around 1 crore nett over its third weekend but collections were nearly double in the fourth weekend at around 1.90 crore nett.
The film has now collected around 18.75 crore nett in 24 days and will be over 20 crore nett in four weeks. To put the fourth week figures in perspective is that they are likely to be the third highest of 2010 after only Raajneeti and Dabangg which is a huge feat for the 10 crore film.
Top Nett Fourth Weeks 2010
1. Raajneeti – 4.85 crore
2. Dabangg – 3.97 crore
3. Band Baaja Baaraat – 3 crore plus (expected)
4. Golmaal 3 – 2.85 crore
5. Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai -2.18 crore
6. Badmaash Company – 1.82 crore
7. My Name Is Khan – 1.78 crore
8. Housefull – 1.71 crore
9. Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge? – 1.51 crore
10. Robot (Hindi) -0.90 crore
As can be seen above the film is up there with great company in the fourth week and Band Baaja Baaraat looks to be heading for near 25 crore nett business now.
January 4, 2011 at 9:54 AM
Midweek B.O.: ‘TMK’ registers 75%-80% drop in Weekend 2
January 6, 2011 at 12:43 PM
Komal’s ratings for 2010:
http://www.koimoi.com/featured/bollywoods-losses-hit-rs-4750-million-in-2010/
as usual we see here the idiotic, the more idiotic and the most idiotic:
To call Raajneeti simply ‘overflow’ and even assuming this is right (I have some reason to doubt this given that these guys run the numbers a number of different ways to suit their narratives..) is simply silly. Here’s a 90-95 crore grosser that has done more than every film around with the exception of Ghajini, 3I, Dabanng. Recently G3 matched or exceeded it. For that genre the results were simply stupendous and it is completely misleading to call such a film anything less than very successful. Audience participation should count for something.
Meanwhile we see MNIK pretty low down just scraping into the list at commission to coverage and it’s hard to not believe that the overseas numbers have been factored in here to arrive at this result. Otherwise comparing Rajneeti with MNIK and their respective grosses how could the latter be even in that lowest run if the former is simply overflow?
Again to call a historic grosser like Dabanng simply a superhit is another one of the list’s absurdities.
I am making two points here. first off I don’t trust the math on which these judgments are based because in their pieces guys like Taran and Nahata sometimes just look at gross, sometimes they decide to include satellite rights and what not. Nahata very recently said that Raavan and Kites hadn’t lost all that much money when talking about some of the biggest flops of the year. But of course he didn’t give this impression earlier!
The second point is that even if the math on which these verdicts are based is honest this still doesn’t explain audience participation and hence you arrive at ratings that make no sense.
January 6, 2011 at 1:09 PM
Raajneeti @BOI
Production Budget – 40 crore
Sold For – 55 crore
Total Investment (including P&A) – 67 crore
Total Revenue – 85 crore
ROI – 27%
http://www.boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=2409&nCat=box_office_news
1. Love Sex Aur Dokha
Production Budget – 1.50 crore
Total Investment (including P&A) – 3.50
Total Revenue – 8 crore
ROI – 129%
2. Dabangg
Production Budget – 42 crore
Total Investment (including P&A) – 55 crore
Total Revenue – 105 crore
ROI – 91%
3. Peepli [Live]
Production Budget – 8 crore
Sold For – 12 crore
Total Investment (including P&A) – 16 crore
Total Revenue – 30 crore
ROI – 88%
4. Golmaal 3
Production Budget – 40 crore
Total Investment (including P&A) – 52 crore
Total Revenue – 95 crore
ROI – 83%
5. Band Baaja Baaraat
Production Budget – 10 crore
Total Investment (including P&A) – 15 crore
Total Revenue – 23 crore
ROI – 53%
6. I Hate Luv Storys
Production Budget – 18 crore
Sold For – 22 crore
Total Investment (including P&A) – 30 crore
Total Revenue – 42 crore
ROI – 40%
7. Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai
Production Budget – 27 crore
Total Investment (including P&A) – 38 crore
Total Revenue – 50 crore
ROI – 32%
8. Raajneeti
Production Budget – 40 crore
Sold For – 55 crore
Total Investment (including P&A) – 67 crore
Total Revenue – 85 crore
ROI – 27%
9. Milenge Milenge
Production Budget – 10 crore
Total Investment (including P&A) – 14 crore
Total Revenue – 17 crore
ROI – 18%
10. Housefull
Production Budget – 45 crore
Total Investment (including P&A) – 58 crore
Total Revenue – 68 crore
ROI – 17%
11. Badmaash Company
Production Budget – 21 crore
Total Investment (including P&A) – 28 crore
Total Revenue – 32 crore
ROI – 15%
The other films that recovered their costs and were in the -5% to 10% return on investment range were Ishqiya, My Name Is Khan, Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge, Paathshaala, Khatta Meetha, Aisha, Lafangey Parindey, We Are Family, Anjaana Anjaani, Break Ke Baad and Tees Maar Khan. (Listed in Release Order)
Note – When the Worldwide rights have been sold off to a third party then that figure has been used for the return on investment. When the makers have distributed themselves then the production budget. The total revenue is the money earned from all revenue sources and for films that were sold to third party then the total revenue is for all the rights which were sold.
January 6, 2011 at 7:46 PM
BOI and Komal Nak-katta are worse than evenTaran, the moron.
January 6, 2011 at 1:36 PM
BOI is plain stupid.
A film with 27% ROI is a blockbuster and one with 88% ROI is a semi-hit.
Proves what a bull-shit source of BOI it is!
January 6, 2011 at 4:59 PM
Saw Tees Maar Khan….and I have to say I was quite tickled, and chukled my way through it.
While G3 was unfunny and a huge piece of garbage this was one big piece of caricature, starting with the ‘nahiiiin’ screaming mother, to the film obsessed policeman (at the meeting) to the oscar crazy hero …oscar ki tammanna ne mere under sota hua kalakar jaga diya!! LOL!!
I grinned all the way through the caricatured ‘angrezi’ hakumat scene (which I do believe tries to manipulate the audience towards gaining popularity in many films).
The BEST was Katrina Kaif’s caricaturing of the useless filmi heroines of today obsessed with looking beautiful and nothing else. Her dialogues;
-main abhi makeup laga ke aati hoon,
-arre, important scene hai, aur make up lagao
-abhi speech tayyaar kar ke aati hoon,
-rollers lagaa ke aati hoon
-abhi dress change karke aati hoon (and she rushes for this change of clothes).
Speaking with a strong accent was the icing (it must have been easy for her though
)..I’m fed up of this accent baazi of bollywood actors and actresses….also the singers.
She really fitted into that role. Her constant striking a pose brought to my mind the pictures at Pinkvilla LOL!
She should get the best comedian award for this.
Since I hate writing long comments I’ll forego the pleasure of taking other characters individually and going through their motions.
The only thing that jarred was the loudness and the constant shouting.
Why did the people like G3 and not this?
It must have gone over their heads
January 6, 2011 at 7:56 PM
I have similar views about the movie. I liked it after adjusting my level for all the loudness.