2018 Movie Box Office: The Disaster movie overtakes Mohanlal's Lucifer

The disaster movie 2018 is dominating the box office and has grossed over 130 crores at the global box office officially overtaking Mohanlal's Lucifer to become the second highest-grossing Malayalam moive of all time.

The movie is currently the fourth highest-grossing movie in the Kerala box office with 65 crores and is expected to overtake the collection of KGF Chapter 2 soon.

The disaster movie 2018 hit theaters on May 5 and has received critical and commercial success, the movie based on the 2018 Kerala floods grossed over 18 crores worldwide at the end of its opening weekend.

At the Kerala box office, on its opening day, the movie grossed around 1.8 crores but thanks to positive reactions the second-day and third-day collections have gone up, with the movie collecting 3.2 crores on day 2 and 4.1 crores on day 3.

The movie grossed 9.17 crores on its first weekend, 14.9 crores on its second, and 10.7 crores on its third weekend. The movie has collected 5.5 crores from the rest of India.

The movie is the all-time highest-grossing Malayalam movie in Australia, the UK, and New Zealand.

The movie was officially announced in 2018 but had a troubled production due to the global pandemic. 2018 is produced by Venu Kunnappilly, C. K. Padma Kumar, and Anto Joseph under the banner of Kavya Film Company in association with PK Prime Production.

The movie is directed by Jude Anthany Joseph. It boasts an ensemble cast including Tovino Thomas , Kunchako Boban, Asif Ali, Aparna Balamurali, Lal, Siddique, Indrans, Tanvi Ram, and Vineeth Sreenivasan.

The cinematography for the movie was handled by Akhil George, the editing by Chaman Chakko, and finally, Nobin Paul was in charge of the music.

The Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi dubs of the movie will be hitting theaters this Thursday and are expected to boast the pan-Indian collection of the movie.

As for Tovino Thomas, his upcoming period movie Ajayante Randam Moshanam(ARM) has its first teaser launch recently and received positive reactions.

The movie will be set in three different time periods - 1900, 1950, and 1990 in Kerala. The Cinematography for the movie will be handled by Jomon T. John.

2018 is currently running in theaters.