Prime Focus Studio and Sony’s Diwali event movie Ramayana: Rise of a Legend has risen past the century mark at the worldwide box office, with $67.1M of that figure coming from its homeland of India alone.
The Nitesh Tiwari-directed epic about Prince Rama from childhood to his 14-year exile counts a running global total of $101.9M. Sony’s running domestic total is $17.7M, with another from its foreign handled territories of $16.9M.
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Following the Diwali festival day on Sunday, sources tell us that moviegoing popped in India, which is par for the course as families ease back for the religious portion of the holiday. The pic opened this past weekend in the No. 2 spot at the global box office to $55.7M, which was a Diwali opening record for an Indian movie, with more than 11M tickets sold around the globe.
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The pic, produced by Namit Malhotra is at 94% with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes and a 5-star PostTrak exit. Ramayana: Rise of a Legend stars Ranbir Kapoor, Yash and Sam Pallavi.
Tiwari’s Dangal remains the highest-grossing Indian movie of all time with $303.7M worldwide.
When it comes Godzilla Minus Zero‘s global running total, we’re still awaiting results from Toho and sources. That Takashi Yamazaki movie was No. 1 at the worldwide weekend B.O. with $63M.
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