Today’s film industry has turned into one of the most profitable business ventures – even more so than showing movies. With theaters chains expanding rapidly and dominating the market, we took a look at some of the best theater owners in this article.
At the start of each year, there are a few things you need to do for yourself. One thing you may want to consider is taking a look at some numbers from around the theater chain industry in India and see where they stand when it comes to footfall counts, collections paid on revenue generated and also effective tax payments made. PVR Cinemas leads this pack as having 10.95 crore feet as well as leading with highest collection payments totaling Rs. 1842 crore rupees ($285 million) that same year; followed closely behind by INOX which collected over 288 crore rupees or $41 million dollars in taxes; Carnival Cinemas collected 137 billion rupees or nearly $21 million dollars while Cinepolis earned 122 crore rupees or roughly $18 million dollars while finally Miraj cinemas had 36 thousand crores (close to 5 million dollars).
With the largest number of multiplexes and screens in India, there was no question that PVR would rank at the top.
| Cinema Chain | Footfalls (cr.) | Gross (cr.) | NETT (cr.) | Tax (cr.) |
| PVR | 10.95 | 2197.23 | 1842.24 | 354.99 |
| Inox | 7.39 | 1445.20 | 1156.78 | 288.42 |
| Carnival | 4.42 | 740.03 | 602.43 | 137.60 |
| Cinepolis | 3.90 | 800.22 | 678.15 | 122.07 |
| Miraj | 1.28 | 192.64 | 156.01 | 36.63 |
| Wave | 0.63 | 124.19 | 99.88 | 24.30 |
| SRS | 0.64 | 98.39 | 81.87 | 16.52 |
| Rajhans | 0.41 | 61.05 | 49.41 | 11.64 |
| Movietime | 0.54 | 94.17 | 77.95 | 16.23 |
| Citypride | 0.48 | 81.94 | 65.83 | 16.11 |
