‘Toxic’ USA buzz is a Reddit post
A Reddit user claims $46,483 in advance for Yash’s Telugu ‘Toxic’ US premieres; one Jacksonville theatre lists Aug 25 shows. The film’s worldwide date is Aug 26. Everything else needs an adult in the room — ideally the distributor.
The August 25 Telugu premiere listing is public; the advance figures remain a Reddit claim.
A Reddit post doing the rounds says Yash’s ‘Toxic’ has clocked $46,483 in advance for US premiere shows across 114 locations and 378 shows, with 2,068 tickets — and that the Telugu version is leading. The post pegs the US premiere at 6 pm Eastern on August 25 and says “full fledged bookings” open the next day. This is a user claim, not audited box office. (Source: the post itself.)
What is on the record: an exhibitor in Jacksonville, Florida — Sun-Ray Cinema — lists ‘Toxic (Telugu)’ on August 25. And the makers’ announced line is “Honour Thy Father… #Toxic In Cinemas Worldwide from 26-08-2026,” carried in multiple reports. That makes 25 August US premieres plausible as paid day-early shows, which is common — but “plausible” is not confirmation.
What isn’t on the record: any producer, distributor, ticketing platform or chain naming the $46,483, the 114 locations, the ticket count or Telugu’s lead. Rotten Tomatoes lists Phars Film as distributor; a trade report previously claimed a ₹105 crore overseas deal for the film’s rights, attributed to unnamed sources — again, not the distributor on the record.
For Telangana’s diaspora planning a first-day-first-show in the US, the takeaway is simple: the date is solid — August 26 worldwide, with at least some US Telugu premieres on August 25 — but the money talk is still a screenshot. When studios and distributors want to brag, they usually manage more than a subreddit post.