Releases this week: Sita Ramam and Bimbisara have had strong starts. kalyan Ram's best opening of his career has been usurped by Bimbisara, who has nearly achieved a 50% recovery. The genre-appropriate beginning for Sita Ramam was also strong. It's fascinating to note that the film has had a stronger opening than naga Chaitanya's solo release, Thank You. Both movies have made about $350K at US theatres. All forecasts of telugu Cinema's destruction are proven false by the success of these movies. Since tollywood last had a typical outcome, it has been two months.
A respectable movie like Ante Sundaraniki failed to make money, and naga Chaitanya's Thank You failed to even get a respectable start. Everyone pronounced the industry and the theatrical business doomed as a result. The tragedy is that the producers are calling for a shooting strike to shake things up and reevaluate the situation. Some producers have begun blaming reviews, particularly those of the US premiere, for their predicament. But it turns out they were horribly mistaken. Bimbisara Premieres ended before 9 AM IST, while Sita Ramam chose early premieres in the US. From their US premieres, both movies received fair to positive reviews and word-of-mouth.
They've just made the movies better. US reviews or talk killing the film are ridiculous justifications. There was no start to US Reviews yesterday or today. They have left both favourable and bad evaluations while being present for a very long time. The movies that were out in the last two months were not even mediocre. Before they were ever released, they were already dead. We have witnessed content creators waiting for miracles while advertising half-baked work. With the exception of Bimbisara and Sita Ramam, we have not even received a halfway acceptable trailer in the past two months. With early OTT releases and inflated ticket prices, they made the situation even more complex.
A respectable movie like Ante Sundaraniki failed to make money, and naga Chaitanya's Thank You failed to even get a respectable start. Everyone pronounced the industry and the theatrical business doomed as a result. The tragedy is that the producers are calling for a shooting strike to shake things up and reevaluate the situation. Some producers have begun blaming reviews, particularly those of the US premiere, for their predicament. But it turns out they were horribly mistaken. Bimbisara Premieres ended before 9 AM IST, while Sita Ramam chose early premieres in the US. From their US premieres, both movies received fair to positive reviews and word-of-mouth.
They've just made the movies better. US reviews or talk killing the film are ridiculous justifications. There was no start to US Reviews yesterday or today. They have left both favourable and bad evaluations while being present for a very long time. The movies that were out in the last two months were not even mediocre. Before they were ever released, they were already dead. We have witnessed content creators waiting for miracles while advertising half-baked work. With the exception of Bimbisara and Sita Ramam, we have not even received a halfway acceptable trailer in the past two months. With early OTT releases and inflated ticket prices, they made the situation even more complex.
