JayShah BoxOffice Column – Final Collections for Housefull 4

• Using Film Information data
• To arrive at current week collections I take previous week and compare with current week to arrive at a weekly % drop
• I then take my prior week estimate and multiply by the % drop
• Current week collections = Prior week * % drop (based on like for like centres) * % cinemas drop
• % cinemas drop is the reported # of cinemas from Film Information – it adds a parameter for size of release for the same film
• # of Cinemas shouldn’t be confused with screen size as the former is independent variable for a movie whereas latter is something for comparing with other movies

 

I re-adjusted Week 2 for HF4 down to 48Cr from 49Cr as Ahmedabad cinema count in Week 1 should be 31 cinemas and not 15 – so FI data was inconsistent here as Week 2/3 = 31 cinemas and Week 4 = 20 cinemas.

My final numbers for HF4 are 194Cr and this is in line with Bollywoodhungama. I did not see it too necessary to investigate other sources as Addatoday followed Taran initially, then probably BOI. Kadel/Jaiswal basically stopped.

 

@194Cr I’d call it a hit, given the negativity around it’s collections it sustained well enough to have 3 solid weeks at the box office.