IPL affects Housefull 2 on Day 1

Housefull 2 lost atleast Rs 2 crore on Day 1 due to competition from cricket and regional releases. The early estimates for the first day business is around 14 crores.

The two IPL matches – Mumbai vs Pune and Rajasthan vs Punjab – has severely affected collections for the evening and night shows on Friday. The first match made a dent into collections in Maharashtra as both the local teams were playing, while the second match which started at 8PM reduced the occupancy in Rajasthan.

Collections in Punjab were also affected due to the release of Mirza – The Untold Story, which has opened to a historic response in the state. Infact, the release of the Punjabi film also had an impact on the overseas business (more on that shortly).

Still, the Day 1 collections are about 5% lesser than Don 2, which was a Holiday (Christmas) release.

Saturday and Sunday will be the key and it remains to be seen, just how big an impact the IPL will have on the weekend numbers. The two matches today are between Bangalore and Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai – all four teams have a strong following and are important centers for film business too.

Did the makers under-estimate the impact of the IPL? Would they have been better off releasing Housefull 2 a week or two after the initial hype around the cricket league subsided?

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237 Comments

  • rahul just see the whole global gross which will tell you the biggest actor in whole industry and about blockbusters srk has become such a huge actor that now distributors take a very big bet on him he do not do small budget movies

  • @rahul where were you when ddlj ,kkhh ,dil to pagal hai ,veer zara ,oso ,rab ne bana di jodi released they hold the life time collection records when they released man none of your salman movie has created life time collection just tell the name

  • Weekend collection

    Friday
    13.95 cr
    Saturday
    14.05 cr (early estimate)
    Sunday
    17.50 cr (predicted)
    Total Domestic Collections
    45.50 cr
    Total Overseas Collections
    11.00 cr (expected)
    Total Worldwide Collections
    66.00 cr

  • movies r made eyeing to the global return not just in india but most of the sites show indian collection coz they cant get exact collection from overseas, sharukh made chak de india, don2 a blockbuster movie without any hit songs, did any bollywood actor made a blockbuster movie without a superhit songs?????
    tell me plz and let me know abt it

  • Ppl whomever addresed me,i m not saying srk dont have blockbusters,i m talking about atbb and his recent movies.his charm definitely lost.its all about collections today,so salman,amir r real kings of boxoffice.if u r talking about pure film then i think hrithik in guzarish way better than any atbb movie,bt unfortunately it flop.but he showed his power in agneepath,n he is quite young than khans

  • ipl will affect movies but nothing can affect an entertaining movie, if movie is good then even world cup wont make much difference, i think houseful is 1 time worth watch nothing more than for average audience, bollywood viewers get to watch only few quality movies unless salman khan and akshay kumar r here

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  • who said that salman is not a good actor actually he is, Cant any one notice his expression when he is with handicapped ppls, at charity, his face shows so much expression and sympathy for them but i dont understand what happens when his is in front of camera he suddenly cant act ..why is that???, yesterday i saw so many pics of salman posing with poor pplz, handicapped etc, if anyone want to see such pics of salman showing his acting power just google u will find lots of them, poor salman fans they proved that they r nuts

  • guys take Diwali weekend away from ra 1, it would not have collection good 1st week, as you saw second week was a disaster.

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