'Animal' box office collection day

Ranbir Kapoor's latest film Animal opened to great box office business overseas. The film has made a total of $2.5 million in terms of gross collections at the North America box office on its opening day. Animal is eyeing an overall worldwide collection between Rs 110 crore to Rs 115 crore on its first day, according to film trade analyst Ramesh Bala. With this, Animal has become the eighth Ranbir Kapoor film to cross $2 million at the US/Canada box office in record time. The film has joined the likes of Sanju ($7.9 million), Brahmastra ($7.84 million), Ae Dil Hai Mushkil ($4.26 million), Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani ($3.82 million), Barfi ($2.80 million), and Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar ($2.5 million). Animal was also the first-ever Hindi film to cross $1 million in North America premieres, as per the film's producers. The makers wrote in their post on X (formerly Twitter), "HISTORY IS MADE!! Animal crossed $1 million in North America premieres at 5:30 PM PST! First ever Hindi film to achieve this feat! Many more records will be broken!"Meanwhile, Ranbir Kapoor's latest film made around Rs 61 crore in terms of net collections at the India box office on its opening day. Of this, the film made around Rs 50.50 crore from its Hindi shows and roughly Rs 10 crore from its Telugu shows. Animal had an overall 62.47 per cent occupancy across its Hindi shows on Friday, as per Indian film trade portal Sacnilk. Key contributors to the overall occupancy across the film's Hindi shows are National Capital Region or NCR (79.25 per cent), Hyderabad (78.25 per cent), Jaipur (76.25 per cent), Chandigarh (75.25 per cent), Bhopal (65.50 per cent), Pune (64 per cent), Chennai (62.25 per cent), Lucknow (57 per cent), and Mumbai (55.50 per cent).