Toxic’s overseas numbers remain toxic to verify
The Telugu release reached New Zealand and Fiji, but the bigger box-office claims remain tracker estimates, not audited accounts.
The overseas release is documented; the earnings ledger is not.
Yash’s Toxic had US advance shows in some locations on August 25, 2026, ahead of its announced worldwide release on August 26. Forum Films’ official website lists the Telugu version in New Zealand and Fiji from August 26, including venues operated by Event Cinemas, Hoyts, Reading Cinemas, Damodar City and Life Cinemas. A release footprint is not a balance sheet, though it is often treated like one.
Trade reports attributed an overseas day-one gross of ₹16.25 crore to Sacnilk, later revising it to ₹20 crore, with worldwide collections revised to ₹140.75 crore. Another report put the overseas total at about ₹27.25 crore by day four. These are tracker estimates. No territory-wise settlement data, exhibitor statement, distributor account or independent audit was identified in the material reviewed.
US pre-sales claims also vary: $420,000, $470,000 and $292,541, attributed to different trade reports and trackers whose underlying methods were not disclosed. The ₹22.5-crore overseas-rights figure should not be attached to Toxic: the supplied source identifies it as a deal for Nani’s The Paradise. For Toxic, the confirmed overseas fact is availability. The earnings ledger remains conspicuously less available.