Sivaji opened at over 850 screens and the movie opened with more than 600 prints in TamilNadu alone! 160 of them were distributed in the US, UK, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. Sivaji is the first ever tamil film to make an entry into UK top 10! It is positioned at number 9! Sivaji's budget was around 85-90 crores and the estimated profit in TamilNadu alone will be 60-70 crores!
It is estimated that the movie has grossed over 25 crores during the first week! The movie is expected to gross over 150 crores in Ticket sales alone! Sivaji has been released in 12 theaters in Britain and has grossed Rs.13.6 million, one of the biggest collection ever made by an Indian movie!
Yash Raj's Jhoom Barabar Jhoom was released on the same day of Sivaji's release. But the movie flopped big time even though it had enviable star cast of Amitabh Bachan, Abhishek Bachan, Priety Zinta, Larra Dutta and Bobby Deol!Wacth CNN-IBN video on Sivaji's revenue:
