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Brad
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Post Number: 644
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Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 11:37 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Johnny $60K
Tagore $100K
Anji $140K
Sivamani $60K
Andhrawala $70K
Naani $70K (correct gaa teleedu as advance was given a long time back)

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Post Number: 641
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aithe ok
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Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 11:24 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

nuvvettaguu sethavani seyyaledhu mama
ki ki ki
Simhamalle nadichostha thodane kotti Manmadhunne dadipistha meesam thippi
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Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 11:19 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

>>India lo kooda
daanni bold seyyali mama..
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Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 11:17 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Vsnivas mama idhi vaakeynaaa

India lo kooda Donga centers and Donga collections godava kooda INDRA tho start ayyindanukunta!

Simhamalle nadichostha thodane kotti Manmadhunne dadipistha meesam thippi
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Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 10:57 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

>> till Johnny ani yichaav
Johnny and after iste godavalu ayyipotaai
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Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 10:52 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

>
India lo kooda centers and collections godava kooda INDRA tho start ayyindanukunta!
>

Correct Mama Kani sinna Marpu Mundara Donga Add Seyyi
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Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 10:51 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Telugu movies US collections/viewership maatram Indra tho baaga change ayyayi.


India lo kooda centers and collections godava kooda INDRA tho start ayyindanukunta!
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Gaali
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Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 10:48 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Avunu Brad mama,

Telugu movies US collections/viewership maatram Indra tho baaga change ayyayi.
Dum maro Dum, Mit jaye gam. Bolo subah sham, Hare Super Hare Star!
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Naaku telisi Johnny was bought for around $60k
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Nuvve kaavaali, made money to all, Indra made money to Aswini Dutt adi tedaa.. After Indra although collections were good for many movie, due to high prices no one made good profits. adi matter.
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Dum maro Dum, Mit jaye gam. Bolo subah sham, Hare Super Hare Star!
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Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 10:45 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Enti Gaali Mama Posting Sesesava
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Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 10:43 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

I heard that till now the all time collections and screening records in USA is held by Nuvve Kaavali.
Dum maro Dum, Mit jaye gam. Bolo subah sham, Hare Super Hare Star!
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Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 10:41 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Adendi Brad mama till Johnny ani yichaav?
Dum maro Dum, Mit jaye gam. Bolo subah sham, Hare Super Hare Star!
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kikikiki

thatstelugu site choosthunte akkada dorikindi ee link, clik chethe eee cd's

urike surfing:-)
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office lo vunnanu ani telisi ilanti linkulu istavaa...
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http://shop.indiainfo.com/layouts/generalcode/prod uct.asp?productid=14218&attributeid=19180
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negating to the article,

Johnny was not sold for $100K
Tagore badulu vallu Anji ani vunte baagundedi. Tagore was successful for all
Anji was Bokka for all.
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Post Number: 629
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pkm mama hizaking aa...
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Plz_kissme
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http://shop.indiainfo.com/layouts/generalcode/prod uct.asp?productid=14140&attributeid=19101
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Anji
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Brad
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Post Number: 627
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Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 10:26 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Collection repoort of my screenings till Johnny

Movie Average Attendence
Indra 380
Jayam 65
Idiot 125
Shakti* 185
Chenna Kesava Reddy 80
Road* 215
Gemini 100
Avunu Vaalliddaru Istapaddaaru 95
Nee sneham 75
Kadgam 145
Thottigang 60
Naaga 25
Manmadhudu 340
Okkadu 240
Ee Abbai Chaala Manchodu 32
Pellam Voorellithe 80
Amma Nanna O Tamil Ammayi 65

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Post Number: 1464
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Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 10:24 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Brad mama,

Yippati daaka highest price (buyers) Anji kaa leka Johnny kaa?

Highest bokka sangati telusu le.
Dum maro Dum, Mit jaye gam. Bolo subah sham, Hare Super Hare Star!
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Post Number: 626
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Seeing the returns for Indra, the producers viewed a potential profit making in US. This led to the Hype for Johnny
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Brad mama

nuvvu cheppindi correcte, nenu kuda vinnanu.

eppudemo, cinema ela unna distributors chala ekkuvaki INDIA nundi konukuntunnaru.
cinema bagalekapothe, vallaki, and exhibitor ki bokke

i think source daggare koddiga control chesthe,reasonable price ki konte baguntundi

Nani VA lo 4K konnaru. they are deep shit now

:-)

Bilkul Allari Chestha ...
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Gaali mama

sarigga soodale mama. sorry
:-)


Bilkul Allari Chestha ...
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Brad
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Post Number: 625
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All the hype and increased viewrship started with Indra. Since it was the first movie widely publisised and screened, it got great response and brought profits to everyone and no one denies it. Unfortunately, it was not bought by a single distributor, it was distributed by Standard Agencies by partnership with Aswini Dutt. Aswini Dutt gave operating costs and few profit percentage to the Standard guys and ket major profit with him.
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Gaali
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Allarodu aada Brad mama seppindi pre-Indra.
Dum maro Dum, Mit jaye gam. Bolo subah sham, Hare Super Hare Star!
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Brad mama

Santosham, Okkadu, and Malliswari kuda

:-)
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Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 9:33 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

pre-indra manaki peddagaa teleedu. from 98 ninchi Indra varaku, naaku telisi the movies brought profits to both distributor and exhibitor are
Annamayya, Narasimha Naidu, Kushi, Nuvve Kaavaali, Muraari, choodaalani vundi, etc.. lanti athi koddi cinemaalu.
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Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 9:07 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

>>>>>prrof lu kuda vachayu ippudu

ippudu ardamayyindi aa thread enduku paiki lepaavo .:-)
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Nuvvu ala tension pettaka TK mama

Brad mama ki BP rise avuthundi, tiffint hinkaunda office ki parigedathadu!
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Thodakottu
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Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 9:04 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

neekinkoo shocking kuda undhi lee Brad mama..
Memu edho anavasaramgaa postamani maa meedha appatloo kullavu gaa..
prrof lu kuda vachayu ippudu
Simhamalle nadichostha thodane kotti Manmadhunne dadipistha meesam thippi
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>>>>>ready ayyi office ki velli istaa

india lo konthamandi janalu internet cafe ki velli postings sesthunnaru

USA lo janalu office ki elli postings!!

ento, kalikalam!
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good morning !! ippude lechaa, naameeda calling thread yento ardham kaale. Paigaa adi maa TK guru gaaru lepaaraaye..
ee noti kamputho type sette, thread kulludi, anduke kasta ready ayyi office ki velli istaa.
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maaku 6 ayyindi ippudu

ohh manadi 3hrs venaka kada

inka lechi undadu
nenu morning 630 ki lesi job ki vachanu mama!
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thanks PMK mama :-)

yehhe sollu.. elli aa hero mam story chadivi.. paduko po.. ikkada solleyamaak


kikiki
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nee thalakaya...inka lechi undadu/ lekapothe ippude legusthu undi untadu...maaku 6 ayyindi ippudu
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ohhh, kooool
hope u get a nice job soon!
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masters mama.. OPT lo vunna ippudu searching for job :-)
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ohh networkaa

kikiiki

yea mam, undergrad sophomore ni

ohio state univ, columbus,oh

nuvvu?
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ehhe .. n/w=network :-)

mama.. nuvvu ippudu UnderGrad chestunnavaa?
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n/w

?
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emO doubt vachindi.. neeku nijam gaa anta n/w vunte jaagratthagaa masulukundaamani neethO..
kikiki


ipudu parledu le..
kikiki :-)
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kikiiii

typical american life mama

danii agents avasaram ledu le

kikikikiik
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vaarneee.. PKM mama.. inta gaa track chestunnav.. US anta nee agents vunnaaraa
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Brad mam,a ippude car ekki office velthunadu
inka 1hr tarvata online vasthadu
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brad mama Arya okkate screen chesinatlunnadu!!
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Screening Telugu Movies in the USA: How lucrative?
By Sri sriatluri@yahoo.com


When I came to USA seven years back, we hardly had a choice of watching the Telugu films in theatres. One film per month used to be screened somewhere in the suburbs of big cities, and it generally took more than an hour to drive to the place to satiate the pleasure of watching the movie in a theater. Internet was not very popular and people in India were not yet familiar with the concept at that time; news regarding a film’s fate at the box-office thus reached US very late. We used to watch the film at any cost, basically left out without any choice if we wanted to see the film. Slowly, the scene changed and now we watch a new film nearly once every week in big cities like San Jose, New Jersey, etc. Sometimes it will be two or three films in the same week! Regular filmgoers can select the film of their choice and happily watch the film – that’s the brighter side of the picture.


After I involved myself with TeluguCinema.Com, I started interacting with the distributors of the films in USA and I used to get their e-mails regarding schedules and other things. Slowly, as my contacts got more at personal level, I got to know what’s happening on the other side of the picture. Everybody thinks it is not a big deal to screen a film in the USA. People in India (mainly the producers) started thinking that USA is also a potential market for their films. The growing competition made them hike the price. But the market in USA is the same and did not increase according to the supply and demand.


Increasing competition for distribution rights:


For the last three to four years, people who made decent amounts in the IT industry wanted to try their hard-earned money in acquiring distribution rights for Telugu films in the USA. They bought the rights of the films like Daddy, Student No.1 for a price of $40,000; neither of them made half of the price in the USA. Films like chiruavvutO, Takkari donga were also a total washout, leaving the buyers in total bankruptcy. But, still, till date, people only see the successful films (in the US market) like nuvvE kaavaali, khushi, Indra, and buy more films. But, situation then was different – some of these films were bought at lesser prices and were screened in most of the places on a commission basis. However, in the later times, as number of exhibitors increased, distributors started selling the rights area-wise, which led to higher prices even before the film is released in India. One notable point in this scenario is that the audience is still more or less the same people and/or number!


DVD market and other disastrous impacts:


Meanwhile, DVDs (both pirated and original) started flooding the market even before the film is released in some areas! This surely hampered the collections very badly. After all, who would want to spend $8 to $10 per head when one can get the DVD/video at $2, unless the film is very good and worth-watching on the big screen?


With the rise of number of websites serving Telugu Cinema news, views, and reviews, and that itself turning into a business, movie news started to be known to people in the USA as fast as to those in India, and reviews get to them even faster, thanks to all these websites floating around. Several examples can be provided as to how website reviews saved money for the audience (leading to losses for the distributors) or made more money for the distributors. Two popular examples for the former are the debacle of Johnny and Andhraawaalaa.


Fresh from the success of the film khushi, Pawan Kalyan directed and acted as the hero in Johnny. People had high expectations of this movie, because of the silence it maintained during production, and the hype created thereby. In the US, rights for the film sold at nearly $100,000! The film was a disaster from the first morning show in India. Though the buyers in the USA already sold it in some areas, they were unable to get even the theatre rent on the first week in the US ‘A’ class centers like San Jose! The movie producer Allu Aravind did promise to help them with their future film, by providing it for a lesser rate to compensate the huge loss incurred. (Well, now that Geetha Films owned by his family started distribution in the USA, one can only wait and watch what might happen.) The film has thus not seen light in many centers in the USA and flopped even more when it was released in video/DVD.


Simhaadri has not made wonders at the box-office in the USA, but owing to its success in India, the rights for hero NTR’s next movie Andhraawaalaa were sold at an astronomical price. The film bombed in A.P. and was thus not at all released in many centers in the USA; the DVD is not yet released.

Potentiality of the hero:


Success of a movie definitely depends on the hero of the movie, particularly when the movie is in the news for a while because of one of the top heroes of the industry.


Undoubtedly, the megastar has the largest drawing power, be it in the USA or in India. But, the high cost of buying the USA distribution rights for his movies leaves fewer margins in the profits and also runs into the losses sometimes! His Indra was a mega hit in USA too, also because it was released in USA on a commission basis. His other films that followed Indra, viz., Tagore and Anji, however, left a huge dent in the collections, though Tagore was a huge hit in India and Anji was also a 100-day grosser there. Bought at $100,000 approximately, Tagore recovered a minimum of 30% of the costs, and might get more through the DVD rights, but one can’t say for sure if that can account for the remaining 70%! Anji was released with a deficit even in India, and so that’s a different story altogether.


Among Balakrishna’s films, only Narasimha Naidu in the recent past made some money in the USA. All other films left their distributors in more or less losses! Nagarjuna, who has mostly family and lady audience among his fans, His films such as santOsham were good hits in the theatre as well as in DVD circuit. His action films like Sivamani and semi-hit film like nEnunnaanu thus were left with loss in the USA, because they were not aimed at his fan forte. Another family hero Venkatesh’s films hit like kalisundaam raa…! and malleeSwari were hits in the USA too, whereas films like Vasu, jayam manadEraa, and Gemeni were disastrous at the box-office.


The only film of Mahesh Babu that ran successfully to become a good hit in the USA is okkaDu. All other films including the recent disaster nijam were unable to make any profits. NTR’s Simhaadri made some money, but was not really a great hit. Other films like Student No.1, aadi, and the recent Andhraawaalaa incurred losses to the distributors, though the first two were among the good hits or the top grossers of Telugu Cinema.


Less said the better about films of other heroes; they generally do not even recover the costs of the prints! Films like Boys, nee manasu naaku telusu, okariki okaru, Seetayya, missamma, ataDE oka sainyam, sambaram, jayam, aunu…vaaLLiddarU ishTapaDDaaru!, gangOtri, elaa cheppanu..!, nuvvE.. nuvvE…, peLLaam ooreLite..., chantigaaDu etc. didn’t even make into big centers! Films which made some money in the recent times are Satyam and varsham to some extent.


It’s surprising to see that people still are interested to buy small movies or movies that do not make much news, which might understandably not make much money in the USA. Films like Saanti sandESam, nEnu peLLiki ready, prEminchukunnaam… peLLiki ranDi! etc. fall in this category, because some of these did/might not make much money in A.P. itself! Films like khushI khushIgaa…! may be decent hits in A.P. but rarely run well in the USA. People who are buying them however do so in order to get the DVD rights for the movie. There will generally be no takers in many small centers for the films like this. They may only run in big centers, particularly if no big film is being screened at the same time.

On the whole, the only beneficiaries in this scenario are the producers who are making money even when their film is a flop in A.P. (There is a minimum guarantee in A.P. but it’s not the case in the USA, and thus the distributors are the only losers.). Well, the audiences who can still see the movie here are also benefited, of course, if the movie is worth-watching or likeable!


Final Point:


Today, three movies – yuva, aDavi raamuDu, and Aarya – are releasing in most centers in the USA! Now, with a competition within themselves, which turns out a winner is nobody’s guess, but one thing is almost certain – there could be only one winner of the three! Let us wish that the distributors in the USA can make some money, so that they can dare to stay in business in future too, providing the necessary entertainment to most of us here.

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