New Delhi: With Kannada action dramas, regional language hits driving recovery for Indian film exhibition business after the Covid-19 pandemic KGF: Chapter 2 Ticketing site BookMyShow became the top seller on the platform, with over 17.1 million tickets sold. Prasnath Neel directorial film surpasses ticket sales of 2017 blockbuster Baahubali 2: The ConclusionOriginally a South Indian film that sold 16 million tickets, the company said.
In a set of findings released on Friday, BookMyShow called SS Rajamouli’s period drama RRR Hollywood superhero flick crosses multi-million mark, selling over 13.4 million tickets Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness The opening weekend alone saw sales of over 2.5 million tickets, contributing 66% to the film’s total box office revenue collection.
Hindi language consumption of movies releasing in theatres was the highest with 40% of the total sales. However, it included films of South Indian origin that were dubbed in Hindi such as KGF: Chapter 2 And RRR, With a massive wave of commercial action entertainers from the south, both Tamil and Telugu came in second place, each contributing about 20% of the total sales.
Last month, BookMyShow recorded sales of 29 million tickets across businesses including live events (concerts, comedy gigs etc), with cinemas making a significant contribution, the platform said. In comparison, the platform sold 22 million tickets in the pre-pandemic vertical in January 2020.
Audiences from cities such as Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi-NCR led the ticket sales for films, while tier-two cities such as Coimbatore and Kochi overtook metros such as Kolkata. The top 10 cities contributed to 48% of the total ticket sales on BookMyShow in April.
Ashish Saxena, Chief Operating Officer (Cinema), BookMyShow, said in a statement, “Entertainment consumption has never been stronger with 29 million ticket sales for the month led by BookMyShow’s cinema halls, which are once again on the verge of films. strengthens India’s love for
To be sure, BookMyShow which launched its pay-per-view service BookMyShow Streams last year, has launched TVoD (transactional video-on-demand) in foreign languages such as Spanish, Norwegian, Italian, Danish, German, Sanskrit and English. Topped the charts Slovak. Action, thriller, historical and period drama were among the film genres that took the lead in April. The highest sales of BookMyShow Stream were in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Pune, Kochi, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Vijayawada. Gen Z, aged 18 to 24, led the race for stream transactions, followed by millennials, aged between 25 and 34.
BookMyShow streams, including movies and TV series, work best on the Origin platform with 55% of the total transactions for the original, such as assassin, the spacewalker, run hide fight And tunnel,
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