Kites Box office prediction

14 years ago
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by Indicine Team
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Always tough to make these box office predictions, as there are several factors that decides the fate of films. Kites was even tougher to predict, due to these reasons

  • Will the single screen audience go watch Kites?
  • For some reason, many believe Kites is an adult film, which it isn’t. Kites is rated UA by the censor board. Will the family audience come out in numbers? Only time will tell.
  • The reviews have been good, but the audience verdict will only be clear late Thursday or early Friday.

Anyway, here’s our box office prediction for Kites. Do tell us what you think.

Universal AcclaimGoodMixedBad
First Weekend40 - 42 crores37 - 40 crores33 - 35 crores28 - 30 crores
Week 165 - 70 crores60 - 65 crores52 - 55 crores40 - 43 crores
Week 235 - 40 crores30 - 32 crores20 - 22 crores10 - 12 crores
Lifetime140 crores+115 - 125 crores80 - 85 crores< 65 crores

Some points to be noted

  • Reason we think Kites cannot beat the Week 1 total of 3 Idiots even if its ‘Universally acclaimed’ is because the film isn’t releasing during a Holiday weekend like Diwali or Christmas.
  • Weekend collections include paid previews.
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  • Now the speculation has started whether Hrithik Roshan’s [ Images ] underperforming film will good business in the mainstream theatres as a 90 minute version of the 130-minute long film Kites: The Remix retooled by the popular Hollywood film-maker Brett Ratner opens in a few dozen theatres this Friday.

    And it will surely arrive with advertisements in mainstream publications that would have strong quotes from publications as The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle.

    And surely all this will help the film substantially unlike the international director’s cut of the hit film MY NAME IS KHAN which had only one quote, from LA Times, played in the advertisement when the film was released in New York at the arty Angelika theatre complex. The SHORTENED VERSION of MNIK BOMBED with less than $10.000 in the first week and plans to expand it nationwide were promptly nixed

    But Kites could have a far better luck because it is a romantic thriller with an international cast and Ratner’s name above the title.

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  • SORRY OFF TOPIC, BUT THERE IS NO PLACE TO POST SOME OF THE IMP. FACTS

    THIS IS FOR ALL THOSE SRK FANS WHO WER SCREAMING THAT MNIK IS THE FIRST GLOBAL INDIAN FILM

    Karan Johar owes me $13. That is the amount I paid to see a screening of the international cut of My Name Is Khan at the Angelika Film Center – New York City’s leading art house theatre. I would not have paid to see the film, but there were no press screenings of this new cut, even though Johar could not stop talking about it, especially on Twitter.

    My Name is Khan’s international version earned only $7,080 as compared to the $4 million it grossed in North America

    I know I went to see MNIK for the second time at my own risk. Johar had promised us an improved, slicker film, but I have to sadly report that despite the shorter length, the new version is still sluggish and heavy handed. It is certainly not cleaner and significantly better than the original film that I saw at the Berlin Film Festival. The same version was also released in India, North America and elsewhere.

    Here are some facts. After the February release of MNIK by Fox Searchlight that grossed $39 million worldwide, as Johar said in an interview earlier this week, the director and the distributor brought in a team of editors to cut the film by nearly 40 minutes. The international cut was supposed to appeal to a more mainstream audience in the US.

    As an experiment, the new cut opened on only two screens in the US – the Angelika and Laemmle Monica 4-plex in Santa Monica, CA. There was no publicity around the re-release of the film other than a couple of ads in the local papers. Not surprising, hardly anyone turned up to see the new cut. The experiment that Johar had hoped would take his film beyond the desi market in North America was a failure, or rather a non-starter!

    The numbers speak the real story. MNIK’s international cut earned only $7,080 in its one week run on the two screens. The Wednesday afternoon screening that I attended had three other people in the theatre. There were four shows each day, but MNIK earned only $258 that Wednesday. As compared to this, the film earned $4 million during its initial run in North America. MNIK is the second highest grossing Bollywood film here.

    Back in February, I had highlighted the substantial flaws in MNIK and had written here that the film in that format would not crossover to mainstream American audience. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the new cut has a lot of the embarrassing sequences edited out. Most of Rizwan Khan’s journey to the stereotyped African-American community in Georgia is gone. In a brief section, Khan shows up to help the hurricane victims, but it is never explained what draws him to that community.

    Gone is also most of Khan’s encounter with President Barack Obama at the end of the film. That scene had made me cringe in my seat. In the new version, we do hear Obama’s voice and see his face in quick cuts. A security guard walks up to Khan, mentions to him that the president would like to see him and then the screen goes black. We hear Shah Rukh Khan’s voice “Mr. President, my name is Rizwan Khan and I am not a terrorist,” and then suddenly the credits start to roll. Also cut out is the silly and odd conversation between Khan and his wife, as the actor playing Obama looked on.

    But despite these cuts, the troubled soul of MNIK still survives. Shah Rukh Khan still does his Rain Man/Forrest Gump act and remains the Bollywood star, trying very hard to be a complete Rizwan Khan, but rarely succeeding. The flirtation and love between him and Kajol’s Mandira is an extension of the chemistry the two have portrayed in their many screen appearances. They never stop being the stars of DDLJ and many other films.

    Finally, the writing of MNIK and Johar’s direction is too obvious, packed with underlined statements. Things have to be explained and spoken out or else there is a fear that the audience will not get the film.

    I felt cheated watching the international cut of MNIK and so, for that reason, Johar should refund me my money.

    THIS CRAP FILM IS ONLY LIKED BY THE SRK FANS (MOSTLY NRI) AND IN THE MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES… IT IS REJECTED BY EVERYONE ELSE…

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  • thats exactly i have been wanting to say and youve put it very nicely and truthfully.. mnik is and was the worst film of the decade.. it meant nothing to the commaon audience… the music was the weakest link of the film and the story was absolutely ham .. how KJ convinced a smart chap like srk into this subject is the mst unbelievable part of the film and the repeated looks exchanged between kajol and srk in the name of chemisstry was looking too artificial and didnt work …i have just seen another bad movie of KJ called kabhi alvida .. and th movie is equally pathetic .. the problem is that his ideas may be good but the execution is very bad ..kj has alot to learn in film making and if he is willing i can teach him a few crafts in film making

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  • one of the causes of kites flopping is the scene of robbery
    where on earth have you seen robbbers stealing heisting with their faces bare!? also flying long meters to reach the other roofs the dialogues dilevery is not well delivered as if it were recitation

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