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Trade
story - 16th September 2005
Mahesh
Babu's ATHADU sensation in USA
 Mahesh
Babu - the prince of Telugu cinema - has graduated
in to the king of collections with slickly made
blockbuster Athadu. Mahesh Babu is one of the
most sought after Telugu film heroes in USA today.
Athadu mesmerized the crowds of USA with amazing
performance at the box office.
 Mahesh
Babu's ATHADU created a kind of unprecedented
craze in USA for the last one month of its screening.
It created all kinds of records in USA. Distributors
were not prepared for this kind of rush before.
ATHADU released in USA with 6 prints and due to
the demand they have to get another print from
India in its third week of screening.
It
also opened avenues for other potential new centres
in USA like Lowell, MA, Tulsa Oklahoma, West VA,
Springfield IL, BOULDER Colorado and Corpus Christi
TX.
| Center |
Ticket
Count |
Weeks |
| San
Jose |
3100 |
2 |
| Dallas |
2000 |
2 |
| Detroit |
2200 |
2 |
| Virginia |
2100 |
3 |
| New
Jersey |
3200 |
2 |
| Atlanta |
1051 |
1 |
| Chicago |
1600 |
2 |
| LA |
1100 |
2 |
| Boston |
500 |
1 |
| Minneapolis |
560 |
1 |
| Phoenix |
375 |
1 |
| Note:
All the numbers above are collected by independent
sources of idlebrain.com |
 Athadu
distributors (Crown DVD) are also planning to
spend some amount to help the KATRINA Hurricane
victims in Gulf coast area by donating money towards
American Red Cross Society. They already donated
800 USD (out of which 400 USD from the exhibitors
of VA for ATHADU Screening and $400 from Distributors).
They are also planning to screen more charity
shows at LA, and other parts of the USA.
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