B.O. Verdict Categories:
>>Disaster: (1 point)
1. Complete Washout in One week time for normal movies and up-to 3 weeks for Hyped and Super Star movies.
2. A movie of very high expectations which falls flat in Box Office (Decent Initials only ).
>>Flop: (2 point)
1. A movie that does not earn its production cost from theatrical run and rights combined but sustain in not less than three theatres for a minimum period of 3 weeks.
2. A movie of high expectations which falls flat after very high initials.
3. For high budgeted movies (prod cost>6 crs) the movie will not be termed flop if it retains 3.5cr+ from theatrical run (even if rights are not enough to save the producer, the movie will be considered as below average).
4. For very high budgeted movies (>10cr) the movie will not be termed flop if theatrical share exceeds 4.5 cr. It will be considered as average.
>>Below Average: (3 point)
1. A movie that retain its production cost from theatrical run+ rights combined but does not have a remarkable run in theatres (i.e. the major part of the amount came from rights and theatre share contributing less ).
2. Movies that are belonging to point 3 mentioned in flop category.
3. For high budgeted movies it will be considered as average, if it has decent theatrical run
4. For very high budgeted movies it will be considered as hit (theatrical share > 5.5cr)
>>Average: (5 point)
1. A movie that retain its production cost from theatrical run+ rights combined but having a decent theatrical run too.
2. For high budgeted movies it will be considered as hit, if it has good theatrical run
3. For very high budgeted movies it will be considered as super hit (theatrical share > 6.5cr)
>>Above Average: (6 points)
1. A movie that retains its production cost from rights and theatrical run combined but theatrical share itself is close to the production cost.
2. For high and very high budgeted movies, they will be considered super hits.
>>Hit: (7 points)
1. A movie that retains its prod cost from theatrical run alone.
2. For high and very high budgeted movies, they will be considered Mega hits
>>Super Hit: (8 points)
1. A movie that makes a lot of profit (>1cr) from theatrical run alone and have very good theatre status even after 4 weeks, retain in 10 or more theatres on 50th day and complete 74 days run
2. For high and very high budgeted movies, they will be considered as Mega hits.
>>Mega Hit: (9 points)
1. A movie that break/ come close to all the collection records of recent times (2-3 yrs) and have an amazing theatre run of more than 5+ theatres after 80 days.
>>Block Buster: (10 points)
1. A movie that becomes the talk of town and earns more than double its cost from theatre run for normal and high budgeted movies.
2. For very high budgeted movies if it earns all the prod cost from theatre run alone, then it will be termed as block buster.
Overall Verdict Categories:
Overall verdict will be calculated as follows:
Overall Rating = (B.O rating*7+Rating*3)/10
And the overall verdict for different ratings will be:
1. <3 : Unwanted
2. 3.0-4.5 : Below Average
3. 4.5 – 6.0 : Average
4. 6.0 – 7.5 : Good
5. 7.5-8.5 : Awesome
6. 8.5-9.0 : Excellent
7. >9.0 : Outstanding
Star Evaluation:
In this thread, I would also like to evaluate the major stars of Malayalam film industry based on their Performances. If a star becomes a part of a movie (guest roles neglected) then he will be given marks as below:
1. Unwanted : -2
2. Below Average : -1
3. Average : 1
4. Good : 2
5. Awesome : 3
6. Excellent : 4
7. Outstanding : 5
The star with maximum points will be declared as the star of the year.
Note:For Multi-star Movies, each star will be credited with half of the points up to average and same points for all the stars in case of flop and below average movies.
For example, if China Town (Mohanlal Dileep Jayaram) becomes a block buster, each of them will be awarded 2.5 points each. But, if king 2 (Suresh Gopi, Mammootty) flops, both of them will be given -2 points each…there will be no sharing of negative points.......