~ With an India-first premiere, Vin Diesel and Deepika Padukone starrer is a box-office super-hit ~
National, January 17: Indian audience welcomed Hollywood superstar Vin Diesel with open-arms to the country for the India-first premiere of his latest installment to the action-adventure franchise xXx. Making her Hollywood debut Deepika Padukone, has impressed all her fans as they rushed to the theatres over the weekend to watch the movie.
Viacom18 Motion Pictures held a grand India Premiere event in Mumbai on Thursday, January 12, followed by paid-previews on Friday, January 13, and the official release in 3D and IMAX 3D, in 4 languages across almost 1200 screens in the country on Saturday. Within two and a half days, the movie has successfully garnered a gross box-office collection of almost 30-crores in the country. xXx: Return of Xander Cage is scheduled to release in 2D on Wednesday, January 18, 2017.
Elated on the box office performance of the movie, COO – Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Ajit Andhare said, “The box office from just 3D itself & overall response has validated our confidence in the xXx franchise andxXx: Return of Xander Cage. With Deepika Padukone' s leading act in the film and Vin Diesel’s successful India visit, Viacom18 Motion Pictures has ensured India remains one of the priority market for Hollywood movies. We will continue to grow Hollywood tentpoles in India. For Viacom18 Motion Pictures, 2017 has started with a bang and we have a lot more in store. We are now opening 2D and adding more screens.”
Vin Diesel reprises his role as the action-adventure outlaw Xander Cage in xXx: Return of Xander Cage, along with recently crowned Asia’s sexiest woman Deepika Padukone who sets the screen ablaze through her daredevilry and heart-stopping action sequences. The movie also stars Nina Dobrev (The Vampire Diaries), Ruby Rose (Orange is The New Black), Chinese superstar Donnie Yen (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Thai action-star Tony Jaa (Furious 7), and Samuel L Jackson (Marvel’s The Avengers).
Distributed exclusively in India by Viacom18 Motion Pictures, xXx: Return of Xander Cage released in India before the world on January 14th 2017 in IMAX & IMAX 3D.
And nationwide in 2D on January 18th 2017 in theatres near you.
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Viacom18 Motion Pictures is India's finest fully integrated motion pictures studio that has emerged as a force to reckon with by delivering a stream of critically and commercially successful films. Offering differentiated and meaningful cinema, some of its iconic releases have been Drishyam (2015), Gabbar is Back (2015), Margarita with a Straw (2015), Manjhi The Mountain Man (2015), Mary Kom (2014), Queen (2014), Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013), Madras Café (2013), Special 26 (2013) and Kahaani (2012) to name a few. Viacom18 Motion Pictures is also one of the few studios to have successfully ventured into regional films across languages like Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi and from the South. The Studio has also backed path-breaking and much-appreciated creative work in the form of hits like Bombay Talkies, Gangs of Wasseypur I and II, OMG - Oh My God! Dharam Sankat Main, Manjunath, Shaitan, That Girl in Yellow Boots, Pyaar ka Punchnama and Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2, Inkaar, Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns, Rahasya and Boss amongst others.
The strategic alliance with Paramount Pictures to market and distribute PPI line-up in the Indian sub-continent has seen blockbusters like Transformers Dark of the Moon, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Madagascar 3, Hugo, Paranormal Activity, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Noah, Transformers – Age of Extinction, Terminator Genisys and Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation to name a few. For more information, log on to viacom18movies.com