Movie lovers and guests and hosts in middleclass segment felts extremely humiliated with their inability to spend time in theaters during summer holidays. Well, indirectly they may say secret thanks to Mukesh Bhatt for saving precious cash outflow in recession times.
Well, they can now celebrate the monsoon as the producers and multiplex owners ultimately ink a kind of historic deal where all the numbers they were talking about figured.
Producers are thus happy to pocket whopping 52% of first week of collections of a blockbuster and compromise with 45%, 38% and 30 % in subsequent weeks. If we see they get an average of 41.25% over a period of 4 weeks for a blockbuster.
This being the case, the other movies will fetch them 50,42,35 and 30 percentages for 1st, 2nd,3rd and 4th weeks respectively, leading to an average of 39.2%.
Well, with this tug of war over, one has to still wait till June 12th for any movies to hit theaters. The industry feels that Vashu Bhagnani may be a very relieved person to see his son’s first project coinciding with the settlement. Aamir and Shahrukh’s togetherness is yet another highlight of this stand-off.