August 13, 2006
The writing on the wall is clear. Bommarillu is mesmerizing Telugu film lovers all over with it’s brilliant content.
Jackpot for Overseas buyers
Bommarillu film turned out to be a jackpot for the distributor (RK Films - first timer) and exhibitors in overseas. Released with six prints, Bommarillu is running to packed houses and return crowds in all six centers (New Jersey, San Jose, Virginia, Chicago, Dallas and Detroit). Since these theaters were committed prior to release, the exhibitors committed screens with small screening capacity. The exhibitors had to fight for more screens and screens with larger capacity to accommodate the unexpected crowds who came due to extraordinary review and mouth talk.
7320 people watched Bommarillu till saturday (12th July) in USA
This film attracted 7320 Telugu film lovers to the theaters till Saturday in USA. We are giving you the break up of numbers (day/center wise) in the table below. If we take 10$ as an average ticket price, the dollar earnings in USA for the first 2 days of release is going to be 73200 which converts into approximately rupees 33 lacs. With the kind of talk and mad rush Bommarillu is attracting, this film is all set to become one of the all time high grossers in USA.
5 crore share expected in India in first week
Bommarillu film was released with 72 prints on 9th of this month in India and is carrying extraordinary reports. 14 prints already have been added two days after release and 10 more prints are going to be added in the next week. The print number will cross 100 in this month. The first week share is expected to be approximately 5 crores.
USA patrons count:.
Center/Day |
9th (wed) |
10th (thurs) |
11th (fri) |
12th (sat) |
Total |
New Jersey |
300 |
400 |
600 |
1000 |
2300 |
San Jose |
- |
360 |
320 |
700 |
1380 |
Chicago |
- |
140 |
300 |
700 |
1140 |
Dallas |
- |
- |
200 |
500 |
700 |
Detroit |
- |
- |
300 |
600 |
900 |
Virginia |
- |
- |
300 |
600 |
900 |
Total |
300 |
900 |
2020 |
4100 |
7320 |
IB coverage on Bommarillu:
• Jeevi Review
• Postmortem by director
• Srinivas Kanchibhotla Ramblings
• Chitchat with producer Dil Raju
• Success Meet
• Audio Launch
• Audio CD Launch
• Photo Gallery
• On the sets
• Wallpapers
• Trailers
• USA collections |