New Zealand Box Office for Wazir (2016)

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Theatrical Performance (US$)
New Zealand Box Office $34,027Details
Worldwide Box Office $5,917,869Details
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Synopsis

Wazir' is a tale of two unlikely friends, a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a brave ATS officer, brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate. The two men decide to help each other win the biggest game of their lives. But there's a mysterious and dangerous opponent lurking in the shadows, who is all set to checkmate them.

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Movie Details

New Zealand Releases: January 8th, 2016 (Wide)
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Running Time: 102 minutes
Keywords: Chess, Bollywood, Terrorism, Surprise Twist
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Thriller/Suspense
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Contemporary Fiction
Production/Financing Companies: Vinod Chopra Films, Rajkumar Hirani Films
Production Countries: India
Languages: English, Hindi

Theater Averages: Anomalisa Leads Uneventful Chart with $12,738

January 13th, 2016

Anomalisa

There were only three films in the $10,000 club this weekend and all of them were holdovers. Leading the way was Anomalisa with an average of $12,738 in 17 theaters. At this pace, the film will earn some measure of mainstream success. However, unless it wins an Oscar, it likely won't match its $8 million production budget in theaters. The Revenant slipped into second place with $11,801, while the overall number one film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, was next with $10,245. More...

Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeScreensPer ScreenTotal GrossWeek
2016/01/08 13 $17,353   8 $2,169   $17,353 1
2016/01/15 21 $7,034 -59% 8 $879   $32,120 2
2016/01/22 28 $729 -90% 4 $182   $34,027 3

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Australia 1/8/2016 $74,039 15 15 36 $144,218 6/9/2016
India 1/8/2016 $4,269,089 2200 2200 2200 $4,269,089 10/23/2018
New Zealand 1/8/2016 $17,353 8 8 20 $34,027 6/9/2016
North America 1/8/2016 $586,028 111 111 111 $586,028
Oman 1/7/2016 $0 0 1 2 $8,793 12/31/2018
United Kingdom 1/8/2016 $114,213 33 33 73 $875,714 6/9/2016
 
Worldwide Total$5,917,869 12/31/2018

Full financial estimates for this film, including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, TV and ancillary revenue are available through our research services. For more information, please contact us at research@the-numbers.com.

Leading Cast

Amitabh Bachchan    Pandit Omkarnath Dhar
Farhan Akhtar    Daanish Ali

Supporting Cast

Neil Nitin Mukesh    Wazir
Aditi Rao Hydari    Ruhana Ali
Anjum Sharma    Sartaj
Manav Kaul    Yazaad Qureshi
Mazel Vyas   
Saira Nasir Khan    Rameez

Cameos

John Abraham    S.P.

For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.

Production and Technical Credits

Bejoy Nambiar    Director
Vidhu Vinod Chopra    Screenwriter
Abhijat Joshi    Screenwriter
Bejoy Nambiar    Screenwriter
Vidhu Vinod Chopra    Story by
Vidhu Vinod Chopra    Producer
Rajkumar Hirani    Producer
Vidhu Vinod Chopra    Editor
Abhijat Joshi    Editor
Ankit Tiwari    Composer
Sanu Varghese    Director of Photography