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Indian Jones grosses $700 million
MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures has announced that Indiana Jones, the fourth film in the Indiana Jones franchise, and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has crossed the $300 million mark at the US box office. It has also topped $400 million overseas. With a cumulative gross of more than $713 million to date, it is the highest grossing worldwide release of 2008, the studio says.
The film gave Paramount‘s distribution arm its second $300 million plus release for the summer joining Marvel Entertainment‘s Iron Man, which has grossed more than $309 million so far in the US and almost $250 million overseas.
Paramount says that it, thus, becomes the first studio in movie history to release two back-to-back $300 million plus grossing films two years in a row. In 2007, two consecutive Paramount releases, Shrek the Third and Transformers, both surpassed $300 million in the US.
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Rashmika Mandanna, Shanaya Kapoor and Naila Grrewal climb IMDb’s Indian celebrity rankings
Upcoming films and returning shows are driving fan interest across Bollywood and streaming
MUMBAI: Bollywood’s popularity contest has a new weekly scorecard, and the numbers are telling. IMDb’s Popular Indian Celebrities list for this week places Shanaya Kapoor at number six, buoyed by buzz around her film Tu Yaa Main. Naila Grrewal slots in at seven on the back of the returning comedy series Maamla Legal Hai, while Rashmika Mandanna climbs to eighth, riding mounting anticipation for Cocktail 2.
The list, available exclusively on the IMDb app for Android and iOS, tracks trending Indian entertainers and filmmakers each week, drawing on data from more than 200m monthly visits to the platform worldwide.
Further down the rankings, Raaka is keeping two of its biggest names in the spotlight. Deepika Padukone holds 11th position, with Allu Arjun close behind at 13th, as the film continues to find traction with audiences.
The list offers fans a weekly pulse on who is breaking through, who is holding steady, and who is fading. It is a barometer as unsparing as the box office itself.
