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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.
Unconfirmed trade figures cited by News24 suggest Akshay Kumar earned Rs 54 crore for Haiwaan against Saif Ali Khan's Rs 8 crore, a gap that has trade circles talking even as the film struggles at the box office.
Insidious: Out of the Further has crossed $57 million domestically in 21 days, overtaking The Curse of La Llorona's full North American haul, and is closing in on $150 million worldwide.
Hanuman Ansh has grossed Rs 279.54 crore worldwide in 39 days against a budget of Rs 1.8 crore, per Koimoi's tracking, despite a muted opening week of Rs 1.08 crore net.
Tom Holland has reportedly crossed Zoe Saldana's all-time worldwide box office total, becoming Hollywood's highest-grossing actor at just 30, driven by Spider-Man, Avengers and The Odyssey.
Haiwaan's opening weekend numbers were shaky to begin with, and Monday made things worse. The Akshay Kumar-Saif Ali Khan film pulled in only Rs 50 lakh on Day 4, taking its total to Rs 7.25 crore.
Insidious: Out of the Further has crossed $155 million worldwide against an $18 million budget, nearly matching its predecessor's late-weekend hold despite reviews that split critics down the middle.
Haiwaan, reuniting Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan after Tashan, has closed its opening weekend below Rs 8 crore net in India, with trade trackers reporting slightly different day-wise figures for the Priyadarshan thriller.
Practical Magic 2 debuted at $30 million domestically, short of Warner Bros.' projected range, though it still tripled the 1998 original's opening weekend and topped the North American chart on release.
Fresh BookMyShow numbers show Sardar 2 selling under 38,000 tickets in a day while Mandaadi crossed 3 lakh, a gap trade watchers say has only grown since release.
Mandaadi has collected ₹34.60 crore in four days, per Sacnilk, and is closing in on recovering its ₹75 crore budget with a ₹100 crore target now in sight for the Soori-starrer.
Tom Holland has overtaken Zoe Saldana as the highest-grossing actor in box office history, his films now totalling $15.5 billion, powered by Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey's continuing runs.
Practical Magic 2 opened at No. 1 with $30 million domestic and $16 million overseas for a $46 million global start, falling short of Warner Bros' international projections and its own $75 million price tag.
Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson's action comedy Runner opened soft with $2.5 million on Friday, but a strong A- CinemaScore and 70% on Rotten Tomatoes suggest the weekend could climb well past early estimates.
Haiwaan opened soft on Friday and trade estimates for Saturday point downward, not up. With a reported nine-figure budget and tepid reviews, Priyadarshan's Oppam remake needs a turnaround fast.
Sardar 2 has collected around Rs 10.65 crore worldwide in two days against a reported Rs 100-120 crore budget, after a 45.6% single-day drop left the film's recovery math looking grim.
Sardar 2 earned 4.5 crore net on its opening day but crashed to 2.5 crore on day two, a 45% drop that has already pushed the sequel behind the original Sardar's overall total.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has crossed $926 million domestically, over $360 million past its break-even point, even after dropping to third place behind The Odyssey and Hope on its sixth Wednesday.
Haiwaan's Rs 3 crore opening day puts it among the worst starts of both Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan's careers, trailing Sunny Deol's Batwara 1947 despite that film's own disastrous run.
Karthi and SJ Suryah's Sardar 2 opened to Rs 5.30 crore across India on day one, per trade estimates, with Tamil Nadu doing the heavy lifting while word of mouth stays split going into the weekend.
The English version of Yash's Toxic collected just Rs 3.16 lakh across its opening week in India, with daily numbers falling into four figures before the print was pulled on September 11.
Hanuman Ansh, made for roughly Rs 3 crore, has crossed Rs 190 crore gross in India after 35 days, driven by word of mouth that kicked in only in its third week, trade reports say.
Yash's domestic box office tally since the pandemic has crossed 1100 crore net, driven almost entirely by KGF Chapter 2, even as his comeback film Toxic heads for a sub-250 crore finish.
Hanuman Ansh broke the usual midweek slump by collecting more on its fifth Wednesday than its fifth Monday, according to trade estimates cited by Pinkvilla, with the film's total now nearing Rs 150 crore.
Kareena Kapoor, promoting Daayra, told a Yuvaa town hall that not every film needs to gross ₹200 or ₹500 crore, arguing audiences now demand substance over formula.
Ahead of Drishyam: The Conclusion's October 2 release, director Abhishek Pathak tells Variety that this year's string of theatrical successes, from Border 2 to Mirzapur: The Movie, shows audiences still want to watch films on the big screen.
Three months before its December 18 release, Avengers: Doomsday has pulled in $50 million in domestic pre-sales, Disney's CFO announced, with premium format demand driving most of the early rush.
Robert Pattinson's second A24 release of the year, Primetime, needs to clear $133 million worldwide to beat his rom-com The Drama and crack the studio's all-time top five grossers.
The Hanuman Ansh team met UP CM Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow on Monday, days after Uttarakhand's Pushkar Singh Dhami made the film tax-free there, as it heads into its September 11 overseas run.
Hanuman Ansh producer Namrata Singh has roped in Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo director Trivikram Srinivas for the film's Telugu version, timing an overseas release to September 11 while building out a mobile game and comic book around the devotional hit.