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Opening weekends, footfalls, budget maths and the numbers behind the noise.
The Sony horror sequel is under $6 million away from overtaking Insidious: Chapter 2's lifetime total, even after opening below expectations last month.
Practical Magic 2 stumbled out of the gate but has clawed back with a huge discounted Tuesday, pushing its worldwide total past $51.8 million and within striking distance of the franchise record.
Irumudi slipped under the one-crore mark on day 27 but its total haul of 185.15 crore against a 35-crore budget makes it 2026's biggest Telugu return on investment so far.
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot is tracking for a domestic opening between $40 million and $60 million, which would beat Resident Evil: Afterlife's 16-year-old franchise record before the film even reaches India.
Mirzapur The Movie has crossed Rs 204 crore net in India, surpassing 3 Idiots and Good Newwz, even as its day 13 collections dropped nearly 30 percent from the previous day.
Koimoi's proprietary director ranking system says Siddharth Anand needs Shah Rukh Khan's King to cross Rs 300 crore at the Indian box office to leapfrog Rohit Shetty into second place, behind Aditya Dhar.
Haiwaan, starring Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan, is staring at a lifetime worldwide total under Rs 18 crore against a reported budget of Rs 100-115 crore, trade trackers say.
Hanuman Ansh saw its first proper single-day drop on its sixth Wednesday, with nett collections hovering around Rs 6 crore and the total run crossing Rs 225 crore, per trade estimates.
Nivin Pauly and Mamitha Baiju's Bethlehem Kudumba Unit has become the highest-grossing Malayalam film ever in the UK, edging past L2: Empuraan, while its worldwide total nears Rs 315 crore after four weeks in theatres.
Mirzapur: The Movie has collected close to Rs 194 crore nett in 13 days, per trade estimates, and is on course to breach Rs 200 crore by Thursday and finish well past Rs 225 crore.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has overtaken The Force Awakens as North America's highest-grossing film ever, hitting $936.8 million domestic and tracking toward $960 million by the end of its run.
Hanuman Ansh, made on a reported Rs 2 crore budget, has crossed Rs 300 crore worldwide gross by Day 41, according to Sacnilk data, after a shockingly slow opening fortnight turned into a runaway box office story.
Soori's Mandaadi has crossed 54 crore worldwide in its first week, adding 3.5 crore on day seven across Tamil and Telugu screens, trade data shows, extending the actor's recent run of commercial wins.
Girish AD's Bethlehem Kudumba Unit has reportedly overtaken L2: Empuraan's North American haul in 25 days, making Nivin Pauly's romantic comedy the highest-grossing Malayalam film ever in the US, according to Koimoi.
Hanuman Ansh's box office run refuses to cool off, with its 40-day all-India gross reportedly touching Rs 283 crore and sixth-week collections closing in on a record Rs 100 crore.
Suriya's Diwali release Scene, directed by Aavesham's Jithu Madhavan, aims to make it three 200-crore hits in 2026 after Karuppu and Vishwanath & Sons, banking on a rare Tamil-Malayalam cast combination.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has overtaken Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the highest-grossing film ever at the North American box office, with a domestic haul of roughly $936.7 million after 47 days.
Hanuman Ansh has crossed Rs 300 crore worldwide on Day 41, adding Rs 6 crore net in India despite a Rs 10 lakh opening day and a reported budget of just Rs 2 crore.
Karthi's Sardar 2 is winding down at the box office with daily numbers below a crore on day six, on track to become his second-lowest post-pandemic grosser after clashing with Mandaadi.
Ravi Teja's Irumudi has overtaken Peddi and Mana Shankara Vara Prasad to become the most-watched Telugu film of 2026, grossing 184.20 crore net on a 35-crore budget within 26 days of release.
Mirzapur, the film spun off from the hit web series, is closing in on Rs 300 crore worldwide after 13 days, with trade sources pointing to strong holds through its second week both in India and overseas.
Haiwaan's Day 5 collections matched Day 4 exactly at Rs 70 lakh net, per Sacnilk, keeping the Akshay Kumar-Saif Ali Khan crime thriller far behind its reported Rs 100-115 crore budget.
Nani's period action drama The Paradise is set for a wide US theatrical run, with 150-plus Cinemark, 145-plus Regal and 208-plus AMC locations confirmed so far ahead of its release next week.
Suhana Khan's theatrical debut in King, opposite father Shah Rukh Khan, is being weighed against Ahaan Panday's Saiyaara, which holds three records for a post-COVID star kid debut, per Koimoi.
Cars' 20th-anniversary re-release has pulled in $10.4 million over ten days in North America and sits under $1 million short of overtaking Mufasa: The Lion King's domestic total, per Koimoi.
Runner, starring Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson, opened worldwide under $10 million against a $35-45 million budget, per Box Office Mojo, and now needs roughly $87-112 million globally just to break even.
Avengers: Endgame – Encore has sold 45,000 tickets in its first five days of advance booking ahead of its September 25 India release, per Koimoi, setting up a chase for Baahubali's re-release record.
Practical Magic 2 debuted with $30 million domestic and $16 million overseas, well short of pre-release projections. With a $75 million budget, the sequel needs $188 million worldwide to clear costs, per the standard break-even math.
Gurmmeet Singh's theatrical version of Mirzapur has crossed Rs 212 crore worldwide in eight days, trade sources say, with the Hindi version doing the heavy lifting while the Telugu release struggled to find an audience.
Hanuman Ansh collected Rs 10 crore on Day 35 across 7,664 shows, dropping just 2.4% from the previous day. Hombale Films has now picked up international distribution rights for a September 11 global release.