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Box Office: Housefull 3 – decent collection
MUMBAI: Akshay Kumar’s films have a safe selling price because of which they also have a safe recovery target. Most of his films fold up within the hundred crore mark save for a couple.
Houseful 3 has been panned by our critics who will praise the similar Dumb & Dumber or The Nice Guys of the similar genre. Houseful 3 is an entertainer even if branded a no brainer. The public has been deprived of a mass entertainer catering to all sort of audience for over three months because of which the film has had a decent opening. It has maintained well and the collections saw a huge leap on Sunday to end its opening weekend with Rs 53.25 crore.
The collections will affected from tomorrow onwards as Ramadan sets in.
Project Marathwada was poor.
Waiting, despite Naseeruddin Shah in the lead, has failed to stir up any interest in the audience. The film has managed to collect barely Rs 1.9 crore in its first week.
Phobia, a kind of thriller laced with horror, collected Rs 2.95 crore in its first week.
Veerappan, did better finding some support from single screen mass cinemas. The film collected Rs 6.75 crore in its first week.
Fredrick went down as a total loss project.
Sarbjit collected Rs 6.65 crore in its second week to take its two week tally to Rs 26.05 crore.
Azhar added Rs 30 lakh in its third week taking its three week total to Rs 31.95 crore.
Baaghi has added Rs 20 lakh in its fifth week to take its five week total to Rs 78.25 crore.
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Abundantia and invideo join hands for Rs 100 crore AI films
Studio Aion and global video tech leader join forces for 5 AI-driven films over 3 years.
When Hollywood meets artificial intelligence, the credits might soon read “Directed by Algorithm” but Abundantia Entertainment wants to keep the human spark in the frame. The Mumbai-based studio’s AI-powered division Aion has teamed up with generative-video pioneer invideo in a Rs 100 crore strategic partnership, billed as India’s largest structured commitment to AI-driven filmmaking to date.
Announced at the India AI Film Festival (IAFF) beside the historic Qutb Minar in New Delhi on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, the alliance pools Abundantia’s creative and production muscle with invideo’s cutting-edge AI video tech. The duo will channel the Rs 100 crore development and production corpus into a slate of five AI-driven films over the next three years, blending human imagination with machine-powered tools to craft stories that aim to be both emotionally rich and technologically bold.
Abundantia Entertainment founder & CEO Vikram Malhotra framed the move as cinema’s next big leap, “AI in film-making is now real! Every major leap in cinema from sound to colour to digital has expanded storytelling possibility. AI represents the next inflection point. With Abundantia Aion, we are building a future where AI strengthens and amplifies the filmmaker’s voice, not substitutes it.”
Invideo founder & CEO Sanket Shah echoed the sentiment: “At invideo our mission has always been to democratize high-quality video creation through AI. Partnering with a top-notch studio like Abundantia Entertainment enables us to extend this capability into the world of high-quality filmmaking by building tools and workflows that allow creators to move from idea to cinematic expression faster and more freely than ever before.”
The collaboration already has momentum. Abundantia Aion is developing India’s first AI-generated Hindi feature film, Chiranjeevi Hanuman, slated for release in 2026, alongside its next AI-powered project, Jai Santoshi Mata, as part of a broader slate. The partnership will explore OpenAI-style workflows, advanced generative pipelines (bolstered by invideo’s recent Google Cloud tie-up), and new ways to accelerate everything from concept to final cut.
Backed by Tiger Global and Peak XV, invideo brings deep generative-video expertise to the table, while Abundantia’s track record in storytelling ensures the tech serves the narrative rather than stealing the show. In a year when AI is rewriting rules across industries, this Rs 100 crore bet signals India’s ambition to shape not just follow the future of cinema. Lights, camera, algorithm… action.
