Overview
- Thug Life will debut on Netflix four weeks after its June 5 theatrical release, half the originally planned eight-week window.
- Netflix and the producers settled on a Rs 110 crore digital rights fee after renegotiations following the film’s disappointing box office performance.
- The film grossed Rs 93 crore worldwide against a Rs 200 crore production budget, missing recovery targets even before non-theatrical revenues.
- National multiplex chains in North India fined the producers Rs 25 lakh for breaching the standard eight-week theatrical window.
- Thug Life faced a temporary Karnataka ban over Kamal Haasan’s remarks about the Kannada language, contributing to an estimated Rs 30 crore regional loss.