Jai Lava Kusa Overseas Collections
NTR’s latest film JAI LAVA KUSA, which released on September 20th 2017, became one of the successful films at the overseas box-office. Produced by N. Kalyan Ram, Jai Lava Kusa’s Overseas territory rights were sold for 8 crores.
The overseas distributor had sold Non-USA countries’ rights for 2.4 Crores to another party and distributed the film only in USA. Thus, they had to recover 5.6 crores from USA market to break-even.
As of this writing, the US distributor is yet to recover “Rs. 0.84 Cr” which is equivalent to “$130K share” [$200K Gross] to break-even.
Detailed Box-office analysis of “Jai Lava Kusa” Overseas:
Jai Lava Kusa has collected $1,503,277 (as of Sep 30th) to become 3rd consecutive NTR film to gross $1.5M. This film has collected a distributor share of 5 Cr 46 lakhs INR [$841,000] in USA. From Non-USA market, it has fetched another 2 Crore 40 lakhs INR, to make it a total distributor share of 7.86 crores INR in overseas.
After expenses deduction, Jai Lava Kusa’s overseas share stands at 7.15 Crores.The USA Distributor is at a loss of $130K at the time of this writing.The theatres selection, schedules are optimized to minimize the VPF costs compared to previous big films. Upcoming Sunday, Tuesday they may recover around $20K more.
The non-USA overseas distributors who bought for 2.4 Crores are breakeven by re-selling the film in individual non-USA markets such as Gulf,Australia,UK, Singapore and Canada.
(P.S: For calculation convenience, few states imposed tax component and other trivial +/-adjustments are not accounted as our standard policy)
| Theater Chain | Screens | Gross | Distributor Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cinemark | 82 | $746,223 | $447,733 |
| Others [ Locally Owned ] | 56 | $369,209 | $214,141 |
| Regal | 17 | $188,300 | $94,150 |
| AMC | 18 | $147,856 | $59,142 |
| Marcus | 8 | $51,689 | $25,844 |
| Distributor Share in USA | 181 | $1,503,277 | $841,011 5 Cr 48 Lakhs |
| Expenses | - $110,000 | ||
| USA Share ( After Expenses ) | $730,000 4 Cr 76 Lakhs |
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| Other Countries Revenue ( sold) | 2.4 Crores | ||
| Overseas Total Share | 7 Cr 16 Lakhs |
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| Overseas Rights | 8 Crores | ||
| Overseas Profit/Loss | Rs 0.84 Cr = $130K USD Loss |
