We have an exclusive report on Vedalam's performance in the UK after its 6 day opening weekend. The film has grossed £135,584 (1.35 cr) at the end of its first 6 days. Ajay, a trusted UK box office analyst, shares more insights on this opening performance,
"This is Ajith's highest ever opening, his previous best was Arrambam with £135,223 approx. This is 2015's 3rd highest for Tamil, after I : £258,764 (5 days) and Puli : £143,505 (4 days). The festive release, record release locations (58) and mass commercial / family touch were factors which worked in Vedalam's factor.
Looking at the figures from this week, we can definitely come to the conclusion that Ajith's UK market is back on the rise slowly. Not only did he manage to overtake his previous best opening weekend collections, but he also managed to do that with supposedly strong competition coming from Thoongavanam.
In the UK, the family market for Ajith has always been quite low but with Vedalam, it was the first time I genuinely saw many pleased and happy families who enjoyed watching this with their children.
Now that both the Diwali releases, Vedalam and Thoongavanam have completed their first week run, we have been taking stock of how they have performed in the various release markets. Yesterday, we had reports on their TN box office performance and now, we look at how the two films fared in the USA, a leading market for Tamil films.
Vedalam took an early lead after the pre-release premiere shows but Thoongavanam soon caught up and has been distancing itself from the Ajith starrer steadily. After the first 6 days, Thoongavanam has reportedly grossed $424,570 (2.8 crores) & Vedalam has grossed $266,786 (1.75 crores).
Both the films are reportedly doing good in spite of competing with each other. This has been a good week cumulatively for Tamil films in the US, say sources.
brothers none of the sources online are 100% true! Onnu director illa producer or theater owner sollanum! unaku eppdi theriyumnu kaetta..I have a number of assistant director friends! For all u know...a so called biggest blockbuster movie was a loss for the producer even with huge collections!Agreement issues neraya iruku! So sometimes even the theater owners won't tell real collections to the distributor or producer! Sometimes profit won't benefit the producer fully! Laabam vandha solla matanga! (Income tax problems)Loss vandha solluvanga! Indha elavuku namma argue panrathula artham illa! Jollya successa celebrate pannunga!
A friend of mine called Muthukumar..avaru oru assistant director..avar kelvi pattavarai both jilla and veeram wasn't that profitable as far as TN concerned! Some areas jilla collected higher..some areas veeram collected higher! namma argue panrathu 5 paisaku projanam illapa!
Idula irukkara list-la PULI super hit nu solratha ennala mattum illa ,vijay fan-kooda namba mattanga . ...I think Editor is Vijayfan or else he was sleeping during writing .
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