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Film releases, reviews round-ups, box office and the people trending in film and television.
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Drishyam: The Conclusion closed its first weekend with about Rs 177 crore net in India, according to trade trackers, after a Rs 62 to 67 crore opening day and strong holds on Saturday and Sunday. How the three days stacked up, which records it took, and what the first Monday will tell us.
Verity, the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's thriller starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett, led the US box office with $32.6 million from 3,510 cinemas and $62.5 million worldwide. Why it did well with critics against it, what the book's fans were searching for and when it reaches India.
Digger, Alejandro G. Iñárritu's $125 million satire with Tom Cruise as an oil tycoon who triggers a disaster, opened to about $8 million in the US, his weakest start since 2007. Why a Cruise film flopped, who actually went to see it, what Cruise said afterwards and whether it can recover overseas.
Udta Teer, the spy comedy from debut director Aakash Kaushik, reaches cinemas on Friday 9 October after a delay from September. Ayushmann Khurrana plays a Pakistani intelligence agent who loses his memory and thinks he is in India's counter-terror squad, with Sara Ali Khan as the officer beside him. Cast, plot, producers and why the trailer is trending.
