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Links for box-office

India Opening

• All-india advance booking
  • nearly Rs 2.5 crore in just advance bookings nationwide
• CNN-IBN chennai opening
  • Sivaji is set for release in 18 halls across chennai June 15
  • Most theatres were forced to post additional security, fearing fights. There was a mad frenzy for tickets ever since the theatres started advance booking for the movie and most theatres had exhausted their tickets on Sunday itself.
• CNN-IBN All India opening
  • 100% opening across India
• IBN opening
  • Sivaji has been released over an estimated 850-900 screens worldwide, the largest for an Indian film
  • In every country where the film has been released, tickets have already been sold out for the first two weeks, and even more in the case of Malaysia.
  • Record crowds in National Capital region, including Noida and Gurgaon.
• CNN-IBN All India opening
  • 1,000 cinema halls
  • sold out for the next three weeks at theatres in Chennai.
  • Reportedly shot for Rs 80 crore
  • The Telugu rights of Sivaji were sold for Rs 14 crore
  • Even in northern India, the response to the film was "remarkable"
• Fin. Express Mumbai opening
  • Cineplex, Inox and Fun republic
  • 95-100% occupancy on weekends and 65% on weekdays
• TOI Bangalore
  • fetched more money than any other non-Kannada film screened in Bangalore in the last two years
  • 11 lakhs per day on Tax
• Pune opening
  • Every theatre from Inox, E-Square, City Pride to Gold Adlabs and Fame (Pimpri Chinchwad) has deemed it fit to have preview shows
  • While the multiplex will screen no less than 12 shows over the weekend, five of these will be on their main screen, which has a seating capacity of 600—an honour reserved only for the most mammoth of them all
• All-India opening
  • considerable interest even among Maharashtrians, Gujaratis, Bengalis, Biharis and the North Indians.
  • Mumbai opened with an unprecedented 17 prints
  • Hindi dubbed versions too might be out by the end of the month
  • Centres like Indore, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Kanpur, Lucknow and Kolkata to be opened in 2nd week
  • Never before has a regional film scored this big outside home territory
  • Chennai: Tickets were sold out in minutes for three weeks, Rs 1.70 crore on advance booking alone
  • 500 cinemas in Tamil nadu
  • Andhra Pradesh: 350 theatres with 270 prints, a record for a dubbed film.
  • Kerala, shows started as early as 5 a.m. This is the first time that a non-Malayalam film has been released in 86 theatres across the state.
• The Telegraph Kolkata opening
  • opened at all four city multiplexes
  • Sivaji is the biggest release in Calcutta this Friday
• AP opening
  • 2.75 Crores in 4 days in just the Nizam area
  • In Nizam 90 in about 90 theatres. 42 theatres alone are in Hyderabad
• Pune opening
  • A total of 20 shows are running in Pune each day
  • the first time we are screening four shows everyday of a non-Marathi regional movie
• Baroda opening
  • The Boss conquers Barodians, even those who don't know Tamil, as the actor's latest film Sivaji opens to a full house

Worldwide Opening

• Singapore opening, from Reuters' reporter
  • 15 screenings in Singapore
  • Sivaji’ is expected to break the record for being the most screened Indian-language movie in theatres across the world
• Hindu on Gulf opening
  • Dubai laborers watching it for free
  • Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah are fully booked for the next two weeks. In Bahrain, it is the only movie being shown at two theatres and tickets are being sold in black
• Chicago opening
• Business standard Woldwide opening
  • Sivaji collected Rs 1.7 crore on the first day of its release
  • Debuted at 9th position in UK
• Economic times Chennai+Worldwide opening
  • 1.35 crore in the first four days, which will be a record for any city across the country
  • Chennai’s distribution rights were sold for Rs 6.5 crore
  • (Page-2) UK average per-screen collection of £14,050. This is the highest per screen average for any movie in the UK so far in 2007
• Qatar unprecedented response
  • General Manager of the Qatar Film Distr. Company : To my knowledge, no other film in Qatar has ever generated the kind of response that Sivaji has
• Sri Lanka opening
  • 41 shows a day in seven theatres across the island, with all shows running to full houses
  • The Cine City multiplex in downtown Maradana has 20 shows a day

2nd week

• Delhi 2nd week
  • was released in only two multiplexes in Delhi and one in Gurgaon last week, is now being screened in more than 12 halls across the capital.
  • Cuttingwe have increased the number of screens and number of shows in the northern region across language barrier north Indians too are coming in large numbers to catch the action
  • "we have increased the number of screens and number of shows in the northern region"
• AP opening box-office rank
  • Sivaji opened at number one spot in box-office, even ahead of Telugu films.
  • It is expected that the film will stay in the number-one slot at least until the end of this month.
• Kolkata opening report
  • was the most-watched film at the plexes this weekend
  • Over the weekend, Sivaji recorded an average occupancy of 70 per cent at the plexes, a first for a regional film and that, too, one with no subtitles.
• TN 10-day collection (Tamil link)
  • 30 crores in 10 days
• Yahoo All-India response
  • For the first time perhaps in the history of regional cinema Sivaji - The Boss starring superstar Rajinikanth has managed to go beyond the Tamil-speaking audience and make its presence felt pan-India and beyond.

After 3 weeks

• Collections after 3 weeks
  • Andhra: 18c, Malaysia: 7.8c, UK 2.78c and USA Rs 4.5c
  • All India: 95c

General

• Book on Rajini
• Rajini's old movies being re-released in North India