2015 release ’Welcome Back’ and this year’s ‘Housefull 3’ have quite a lot in common and yet there are small differences that can make a big difference at the box office:
- Welcome Back released a week after ‘Phantom’ and a week before ‘Hero’. Housefull 3 had no major competition, neither the week before or after and it also released during the extremely successful Post IPL period.
- Welcome Back – 3200 screens vs Housefull 3 – 3700 screens.
- Both belonged to a popular comedy franchise. Welcome was probably is a little more popular at smaller centres, because the first film had tremendous repeat value – especially on television.
- Welcome Back didn’t have a major star, while Housefull 3 has a established solo star in Akshay Kumar.
- Welcome Back was the longer film – 152 minutes (2 hours 32 minutes), while Housefull 3’s runtime was 132 minutes (2 hours 12 minutes).
- The budget of both films are similar, with Housefull 3 being the slightly more expensive film. But Housefull 3 has performed very well overseas.
At the end of Week 1, Housefull 3 has collected Rs 80.1 crore while Welcome Back collected Rs 74.02 crore. The difference between the first week collections of the two films is Rs 6.08 crore.
If Housefull 3 follows a similar trend as Welcome Back, it’ll finish with net box office collections of less than 110 crore. But apart from the disadvantage of the ‘Ramzan’ period, Housefull 3 faces no competition at the box office.
If Housefull 3 adds around 16-17 crore in its second weekend, the film has a chance of getting close to a total of Rs 120 crore – which looks like the best case scenario for the film from here.
| Day | Welcome Back | Housefull 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 (Friday) | 14.35 | 15.21 |
| Day 2 (Saturday) | 17.05 | 16.30 |
| Day 3 (Sunday) | 19.60 | 21.80 |
| Day 4 (Monday) | 7.52 | 8.25 |
| Day 5 (Tuesday) | 6.17 | 7.07 |
| Day 6 (Wednesday) | 5.08 | 6.25 |
| Day 7 (Thursday) | 4.25 | 5.22 |
| Week 1 | 74.02 crore | 80.1 crore |
| Day 8 (2nd Friday) | 2.61 | 3.50 |
| Day 9 (2nd Saturday) | 4.38 | 5.05 |
| Day 10 (2nd Sunday) | 5.41 | 6.65 |
| Day 11 (2nd Monday) | 1.70 | 2.30 |
| Day 12 (2nd Tuesday) | 1.45 | 2.05 |
| Day 13 (2nd Wednesday) | 1.35 | 1.85 |
| Day 14 (2nd Thursday) | 1.75 | 1.70 |
| Week 2 | 18.65 crore | 23.1 crore |
| Remaining Weeks | 6.01 crore | 3.02 |
| India Total Collections | 98.68 crore | 106.22 crore |
BOXOFFICEINDIA: Housefull 3 Emerges A Hit
Housefull 3 has emerged a HIT film with business of around 3.50 crore nett on the all important day eight. The business was better than the new Hindi releases and there will be good growth over the weekend especially on Sunday as it could be a repeat of last week as the families come out. The business of the film is around 84.50 croe nett in eight days
Hf2 lost more than halfs it’s screens on second
@farhad,what an excuse?there is not even a single big film is challenging housefull3,still you akkitards are crying so shamelessly?at least non entertaining FAN faced a biggest wom getting Hollywood movie of the year jungle book otherwise IT would have easily crossed 120CR but despite getting everything akki is unable to bring audience to theatres.shame on such flop STARDOM with a flop opening.now at least accept the hugely under performance of housefull3 if you really have some shame with out doing much blabbering.
Others are targeting 200cr/300cr mark. Even newcomers like Ranbir, Ranveer, Kangna have crossed 150cr mark. And Akki is still targeting 100cr mark. But according some of his fans he is a Megastar…. LOL..