On this weekend, many movies are released in pan India to entertain the audiences. This is a busy weekend because of the celebration of the Lohri festival in North India and the Pongal festivities in the South. Let’s see which movies impressed the viewers and forced them to visit cinema halls.
Let’s delve deeper into the Weekend Box office collection of three prominent movies Hanuman, Merry Christmas, and Captain Miller released on 12th January 2024.
The Friday to Sunday growth of #Hanuman is around 300 percent, which is the first indication of the #PrasanthVarma film having long legs at the box office.
Detailed collection report👇https://t.co/FIXXEIAA74
— Pinkvilla (@pinkvilla) January 14, 2024
Box office collection refers to the total revenue generated by a movie from ticket sales in theatres. It is a measure of a film’s commercial success and popularity among the audience. The box office collection is typically reported in monetary terms and is often used to gauge the financial performance of a movie.
Hanuman Weekend Box Office Collection
The first day collection for this movie is quite satisfactory on day 1, as the budget of this movie was Rs. 30 crore only. The VFX effects are phenomenal and praised by many viewers who have watched this movie. It released alongside Mahesh Babu’s Guntur Kaaram and managed to show better Sunday collections of ₹16 crore. HanuMan is still behind its total collection of ₹69 crore as it had a bigger opening. The Total first weekend collection of the movie is Rs. 40.15 cr
It’s a superhero film directed by Prasanth Verma, its a Tamil language film. The film is set in the fictional village of Anjanadri and is the first installment of the Prasanth Varma Cinematic Universe followed by Adhira.
According to the report, HanuMan earned ₹7.56 crore net in India on its first day for all languages, as per early estimates. The film minted ₹5.50 crore net in Telugu and ₹2 crore net in Hindi, as per early estimates. In other languages, the film earned ₹6 lakh as per early estimates.
Merry Christmas Weekend Box Office Collection
This movie has a very slow start on day 1, Merry Christmas earned 2.55 Cr India net on its first day for all languages.
Merry Christmas is an Indian thriller film directed by Sriram Raghavan. Filmed simultaneously in Hindi and Tamil, the film stars Katrina Kaif and Vijay Sethupathi. Katrina Kaif as MariaVijay Sethupathi as Albert Ashwini Kalsekar as Inspector, Radhika Apte is in Cameo role. There are other actors like Aditi Govitrkar, Tinnu Anand, Vinay Pathak who are playing main character in the movie.
Merry Christmas performed well on its first 3 days at the box office and earned an estimated ₹ 9.73 Cr India net. Here is Merry Christmas’s 4th-day box office collection and Occupancy. As of now, Merry Christmas earned around 0.58 Cr India net on its fourth day for all languages.
Captain Miller Weekend Box office collection
It’s a Dhanush Movie, an action-adventure film directed by Arun Matheswaran, and produced by Sathya Jyothi Films.
A renegade Captain and his unconventional outlaws execute daring heists in the 1930s and 1940s. Miller must decide whether to continue running or confront the challenges head-on. Arun wrote the script in 2018 and Sathya Jyothi Films was to produce it. However, nothing was finalised then until 2019 when it started to come into shape. It was tentatively titled D47 (Dhanush’s 47th film in a lead role). The film was announced in July 2022. It is released on over 900 screens overseas and has a descent start.
Despite the working day release, ‘Captain Miller’ has got an average occupancy of 80% on day 1, and the film has reprtedly grossed around Rs 15 crore worldwide. In Tamil Nadu, ‘Captain Miller’ reportedly grossed between Rs 8 to 8.5 crore on day 1, while the film looked super powerful in Karnataka on box office day 1 as it has leading kannada actor “Shiva Rajkumar” in an important role.
Captain Miller performed well on its first 2 days at the box office and earned an estimated ₹ 16.15 Cr India net. Here is Captain Miller’s 3rd-day box office collection and Occupancy. Captain Miller earned around 7.25 Cr India net on its third day for all languages (early estimates). The total first weekend collection is Rs. 23.5 Crore.