Like Victory cinema of Bangalore has decided to remit cent per cent collections of Toxic: A Fairy Tale For Grown-Ups to the producers without retaining its share, has any cinema done so in the past? In other words, has any cinema, before Victory, screened a film on zero terms?
– Yes, Phoenix Cinemas in Veraval (Gujarat) screened Rohit Shetty’s SOORYAVANSHI in 2021 on zero terms. This was done in appreciation of the film’s producers not having succumbed to pressure and releasing the film on OTT during the COVID-19 lockdown but rather waiting for the cinemas to reopen. Of course, the film’s producers and distributors, Reliance Entertainment, reciprocated and forced the cinema to take its share of collections.
Given the first day’s bumper opening and the second day’s drop in collections, where do you see the Hindi dubbed version of Toxic: A Fairy Tale For Grown-Ups landing?
– Not very far. The film will entail losses for sure!
Will the experiment of Mirzapur The Movie work? If it does, will more web series be converted into films with new stories shot as films?
– Even if the experiment works, it may not necessarily start off a trend of web series being reshot as films with story extensions.