Category - Box Office

Bollywood Movies Budget and Collections: Year 2015

9 years ago
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Costliest Bollywood movie of 2015 – Bombay Velvet (120 crore including print and advertising) Biggest Bollywood hit of 2015 – Piku (Tanu Weds Manu Returns likely to be the biggest hit in the next few days) Biggest Bollywood disaster of 2015 – Bombay Velvet (losses in the range of 90-95 crore) Bollywood films that were profitable - Tanu Weds Manu Returns, Piku, Gabbar Is Back, NH10, Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Badlapur. Best Opening (minimum release size of 1000 screens) – Tanu Weds Manu Returns Worst opening (minimum release size of 1000 screens) – Bombay Velvet

Bombay Velvet Box Office Collections: Biggest Disaster of all time

9 years ago
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Bombay Velvet will end its run at the box office this week as the mother of all disasters. The film is set to lose around 90 crore of its investment. No film in the history of Indian Cinema has lost the kind of money that the distributors of the film (Fox Star Studios) will lose on the Ranbir Kapoor – Anushka Sharma starrer. 

Creative Producers vs Corporate Distributors in Bollywood

9 years ago
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Article by Kabir So I have managed to write another article on time. Luckily my mood was disturbed all week and ‘Bombay Velvet’ had nothing to do with it (okay it had in bits and pieces). I feel everyone in their tweets talk about collections of opening day, weekend and lifetime business – it’s the newest trend.  It’s like the new social acceptability tool that if you don’t understand

Anushka Sharma - Bombay Velvet

Bombay Velvet Day 2 (Saturday) Box Office Collections

9 years ago
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Bombay Velvet has failed to show any growth in business on Saturday, as multiplex business continued to remain dull on Day 2. The film has now collected around Rs 10.5 crore, as per early estimates. The Ranbir Kapoor starrer is likely to collect Rs 16 crore in its first weekend, which would make it the 9th highest first weekend grosser in 2015.

Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma unveil second trailer of Bombay Velvet

Bombay Velvet Screen Count, Runtime, Budget

9 years ago
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We answer a few ‘Bombay Velvet’ related questions: Q. What is the screen count of Bombay Velvet? A. Bombay Velvet is releasing on approximately 2600-2700 screens across India. The film will have a limited single-screen release. Even at multiplexes, the number of shows is much lower than what mega-budget films usually get. Q. How much does the film need to collect to be a profitable venture and what is the budget of ‘Bombay Velvet’? A. From its theatrical business (overseas and India), Bombay Velvet has to collect around Rs 150 crore just to recover costs. Assuming that it does fairly well overseas, the film would have to collect around 125-130 crore in India. Cost of production is Rs 90 crore, the makers have spent around 20 crore on marketing. Total costs – 110 crore approx.

Piku

Piku Day 1 (Friday) Box Office Collections

9 years ago
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Piku has collected Rs 5.5 crore on Day 1, which is exactly what we predicted in #IndicineFBO. The film has done well at the box office, especially at metro cities and circuits like Mysore and West Bengal. The big advantage for a film like ‘Piku’ is that the word-of-mouth is extra-ordinary, so the film has the potential to collect 60-70 crore or even more – which is what it requires to recover its high costs. A lot will also depend on how well next week’s release ‘Bombay Velvet’ does at the box office.