Thalapathy Vijay's Leo Beats Leonardo DiCaprio’s Killers of the Flower Moon At Worldwide Box Office

Tamil superstar Vijay’s latest film Leo: Bloody Sweet’s worldwide box office collection has left Martin Scorsese’s Killers of The Flower Moon behind. 

A dark, gritty, and violent film, ‘Leo’ has a gangster theme to it as the titular protagonist played by Vijay is a ruthless killer

New Delhi: Tamil superstar Vijay’s latest film ‘Leo: Bloody Sweet’ opened to mixed reviews with many calling it director Lokesh Kanagaraj‘s weakest film. Despite the reviews, the film has been doing good at the box office not just in India but worldwide also. The Leo’s worldwide box office collection has left Martin Scorsese’s Killers of The Flower Moon behind. 

According to Variety, in worldwide cumulative among new releases, ‘Leo’ scored $48.5 million (after four days) compared with the $44 million earned by ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’.  

An homage to David Cronenberg’s 2005 film ‘A History of Violence’, ‘Leo’ released on October 19.   

A dark, gritty, and violent film, ‘Leo’ has a gangster theme to it as the titular protagonist played by Vijay is a ruthless killer, who embarks on a violent and killing spree to eliminate his targets.  

‘Leo’ consists of an ensemble cast that includes Vijay, Trisha Krishnan, Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Sarja, Mysskin, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Priya Anand, Santi Mayadevi, Mathew Thomas, Mansoor Ali Khan in pivotal roles. 

The film is produced by S.S. Lalit Kumar and Jagadish Palanisamy for Seven Screen Studio. 

In the U.S., ‘Leo’ was released by Prathyangira Cinemas and earned $2.1 million over the weekend. In the U.K. and Ireland it was released by Ahimsa Entertainment and collected $1.3 million in its first three days of release. 

‘Leo’ is the latest instalment in Kanagaraj’s LCU or Lokesh Cinematic Universe, which began with ‘Kaithi’ (2019), continued with ‘Vikram’ in 2022 and retrospectively included 1986 title ‘Vikram’. 

Characters from ‘Kaithi’ and the 2022 ‘Vikram’ make appearances in ‘Leo’. This is the second time that Vijay, known to his fans as ‘Thalapathy’ (commander), is teaming with Kanagaraj. They previously collaborated on ‘Master’ which grossed $36 million. Vijay subsequently headlined ‘Beast’ (2022) and ‘Varisu’ (2023), both of which delivered numbers similar to ‘Master’.