Padmaavat USA 1st weekend Box-office report

Defying majority poor reviews and first day’s mixed talk, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat has shattered every possible record in North American market. As of this writing, it has reached very close to $5M milestone by end of Sunday i.e. First weekend. It has stood at No.10 in weekly Top 10 in USA for Jan 26-28th Weekend ( Including Hollywood films)

Many of the noted reviewers, barring few, had dismissed this film from critical POV, rated as low as 2 to 2.5 on a scale of 5. Despite these mixed reviews which came out two days prior to release, NRI audience lapped up the film and high degree of enthusiasm to watch this film has been visible from its first weekend collections in USA, Canada.

Padmaavat is such a big hit in North America that it has surpassed previous biggest hits like PK, DANGAL  first week collections by huge margin (List below). Noteworthy point here is while many previous big hits additionally benefitted from Christmas holidays season, but Padmaavat has created records in last week of January – generally an off season for cinemas in USA.

Here are the few records Padmaavat has set so far:

• Padmaavat is the HIGHEST FIRST WEEKEND GROSSER EVER in history
• Padmaavat is the FIRST film ever to have THREE million-dollar days back to back
• Padmaavat is Highest Single day grosser in the history of hindi films North America
• Padmaavat is now HIGHEST SINGLE DAY grosser & Also 2nd Highest Single day grosser
• Padmaavat is only film that has two $1.5 Million gross days back to back

All-Time Top 5 Opening weekend in North America Market

1. Padmaavat $5.00 M [ Thursday – Sunday]
2. Dangal $4.07M   [ Wed – Sun ]
3. PK $3.57M   [ Fri – Sun]
4. Dhoom $3.43M   [ Fri – Sun]
5. Sultan $3.39M  [ Wed – Sun ]

Padmaavat: Path to $5 Million Dollar weekend in North America

Thursday $507,267
Friday $1,139,370
Saturday $1,850,664
Sunday  $1,483,585

Padmaavat: Highest Single day grosser ever in Hindi Films history
TOP 5 single day grossers in North America

1. Padmaavat $1,850,664 on 01/27/2018
2. Padmaavat $1,500,000 on 01/28/2018
3. PK $1,411,126 on 12/20/2014
4. Dangal $1,343,728 on 12/25/2016
5. Dhoom-3 $1,304,679 12/21/2013