NEW YORK: After stunning industry watchers with record opening week collections at the box office, The Namesake has entered the North American Top 20 in only its second weekend of limited release. Gitesh Pandya, who is working with Fox Searchlight Pictures, the distributors of the Mira Nair film, points out:
"The film entered the North American Top 20 in only its second weekend of limited release. Monsoon Wedding did not reach the Top 20 until its fourth weekend in 98 theaters and Bend It Like Beckham reached the Top 20 in its third weekend in 46 theaters.
The Namesake also broke the ten-year-old opening week box office record at the Paris Theatre in NYC with a sensational $101,929 in its first seven days." The Tabu-Irrfan Khan-Kal Penn starrer debuted the second weekend in Boston, Chicago, Washington DC, Denver, Philadelphia, San Jose, Seattle, and Vancouver and added more theaters in the existing markets of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Toronto.
The gross collections for the first ten days since the film opened March 9, was $1,053,350. The film will now open in an additional 69 theaters, March 23, in Dallas, Detroit , Hartford, Houston, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, New Jersey, Oakland, Phoenix, San Diego, and St. Louis.
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