Kamal Gianchandani tells Bollywood Hungama that Avengers: Doomsday, Dune 3, Jumanji: Open World and Shah Rukh Khan's King can share screens easily, pointing to Friday's Endgame re-release as proof of appetite.
Four big films, three release weekends, one very crowded December. Shraddha Kapoor's period drama Eetha opens December 4. Two weeks later, on December 18, Avengers: Doomsday goes head to head with Dune: Part Three. Then on December 24, Jumanji: Open World collides with Shah Rukh Khan's King. That's a lot of screens to divide up, and trade watchers have been worried about exactly that — a scramble for slots, particularly at single screens where capacity is tight to begin with.
Kamal Gianchandani isn't worried. The Chief Business Planning & Strategy officer at PVR INOX Limited, who also runs PVR INOX Pictures as CEO, told Bollywood Hungama in an exclusive interview that the chain has handled this kind of traffic before and will again. "It's a good problem to have," he said, adding that his team has "been doing it for ages" and that India's exhibition capacity can now absorb two or three major releases landing in the same week without trouble.
That confidence gets tested almost immediately. Avengers Endgame: Encore hits theatres this Friday, September 25, and according to Gianchandani, advance bookings are already running hot. He predicted it would "smash all re-release records without a doubt", a claim that, if it plays out, says a lot about what's coming for Avengers: Doomsday when it actually arrives in December.
Gianchandani drew a direct line between the two. If a seven-year-old film pulling this kind of response on re-release, he argued, then a brand new Avengers instalment should do serious business on opening day. "It's a foregone conclusion," he told Bollywood Hungama, before running through the rest of the December slate. Doomsday, Dune: Part Three, Jumanji: Open World and King, and calling the month set to be "monstrous."
This isn't a one-off comment either. In an earlier conversation with the same outlet, Gianchandani had already flagged Hollywood's unusually strong run in Indian theatres this year, arguing audiences are tired of watching everything at home, and confirmed India releases for Godzilla Minus Zero and Artificial. Put the two interviews side by side and you get a multiplex executive betting hard on theatrical spectacle carrying momentum through the rest of 2026.
Whether four films across three weekends actually share screens as smoothly as Gianchandani claims is something only the December charts will settle. For now, the real test starts Friday, when Endgame: Encore's numbers either back up his confidence or complicate the picture before Doomsday and King even get there.
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