Initial Indications are Dhoom to be Money Earner (Above Average or better) and Phir Milenge a disaster.

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BOX OFFICE UPDATE-30th August 13.00 IST

Dhoom has managed good collections over the weekend and should earn some money.Phir Milenge is a washout.

Weekend Collections

Dhoom 80-85%

Phir Milenge 20-25%

D(h)oom day at the US box office!

Arthur J Pais in New York | September 02, 2004 13:59 IST


Abhishek Bachchan was unlucky twice over the weekend, at least in North America, when both his releases Dhoom and Phir Milenge performed far below expectations.

Despite a bit of sizzling sex, comedy and catchy music Dhoom grossed just about $102,000 over the weekend in about 30 theatres, with a weak $3,200 screen average. It opened in 40th place on the US boxoffice charts.

For a Yash Raj Films production with plenty of advertising over the desi channels for over two weeks, the gross was disappointing.



After a Wednesday screening in Manhattan, several viewers said they liked the music, choreography and comedy, but the action scenes left them unsatisfied. "It looks very phony," said a 20-plus student. "In many places, especially in the last 10 minutes, the chase scene goes on and on."

If Dhoom follows the usual rate of attrition for Hindi films in North America, it will be down by about 50 percent this weekend, and will have to struggle to gross more than $220,000.

The box office grosses for Dhoom and Phir Milenge were not available for the United Kingdom but in most cases, the collections in UK mirror those in North America.

Unless Dhoom does well in the Gulf, in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia, it will be written off as one of the disappointments of the year.

A far worse fate than Dhoom awaited Phir Milenge that was dead on arrival with a $37,000 gross in 27 theatres with an awful $1,380 screen average. It was at 63 on the box office charts for the weekend.

A couple of young fans coming out of the Lowes Multiplex in Times Square, New York, said while the film was well-intentioned, it lacked sustained drama. "I would ask my friends to see Philadelphia again rather than seeing this film," one of them said, referring to the Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington Oscar-winning film in which Hanks played an AIDS victim. "It [Phir Milenge] is not realistic enough, and it is not emotionally engaging either."

While Salman Khan could not enthuse the audiences with Phir Milenge, his Mujhse Shaadi Karogi is still showing in about a dozen theatres, though only for one or two shows a day. The movie could hang on for two or three weeks. It has already grossed about $920,000.


rediff

The verdict is out. Phir Milenge is a washout and Dhoom is being called the biggest hit of the year by Boxofficeindia.com.
Finally Abhishek gets a hit.

Publicity pays. Distributed by YRF helps too.

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BOX OFFICE UPDATE-4th September 13.00 IST

DHOOM SEEMS TO BE THE BIGGEST HIT OF 2004.THE SECOND WEEK SHOULD CONFIRM IT

The first week figure of Dhoom will be confirmed on Wednesday.

Dhoom again proves publicity pays.Main Hoon Na,Hum Tum,Mujhse Shadi Karogi and now Dhoom all had publicity campaigns which cost 4 crore plus.

so it takes over the title from crappy garv!! holly crap!

Yep. Rediff that called Garv the biggest hit of the year, now says that Dhoom has overtaken Garv as the biggest hit of the year.
http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2004/sep/07box.htm

Dhoom, biggest hit of 2004!
With Rakht, director Mahesh Manjrekar has yet another (we can't give you a number; we have lost count) flop on his hands. Even the multi-star cast couldn't save his inspired-by-The Gift thriller.
The other new release, also a thriller, Hum Kaun Hai, fared even worse.

Yash Raj Films' Dhoom is poised to be this year's biggest hit and may overtake Salman Khan's Garv.

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But, Boxofficeindia classifies Garv as "Below Average" and reports that some are reporting erroneous collections for Dhoom and DHHOM is certainly not the biggest hit of the year. At best, it's Above Average.

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BOX OFFICE UPDATE-8th September 13.00 IST

Dhoom has had incorrect collections reported by some in the trade.The film is definitely not the biggest hit of the year but may be an average/above average success depending on the next few weeks.

I agree, there is a lot of B** S**** around from these BO pundits!
Dhoom or Dhool has to recover its 4 Crore of Publicity too!!

Looks like, Dhoom sure is doing that. After 2 weeks, it's declared a Hit A1.
So, not only it recovers it's distributor cost as well as publicity costs, it's heading towards 75% return, (for A1 Hit classification), on distributors' investment.

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BOX OFFICE UPDATE-11th September 14.00 IST

Dhoom sustains very well in the second week and proves to be A1.Dhoom is heading for a nett gross in the region of 25 crore.