Scene North America Box Office: Suriya’s Film Passes Jana Nayagan in Five Days, Now $45,000 Short of Breakeven

Suriya’s Scene has passed another milestone in North America — and breakeven is now in sight. The Tamil dark comedy grossed $185,000 on its first Tuesday, taking its five-day North America total to $1.655 million (about Rs 15.51 crore), according to tracking shared by Venky Box Office and reported by Koimoi. That puts it past Vijay’s Jana Nayagan ($1.58 million lifetime) to become Kollywood’s third-highest-grossing film of 2026 in the territory, in less than five days.

The day-wise run reads $310,000 on day one, $441,000 on day two, $332,000 on day three, $128,000 on Monday and $185,000 on Tuesday by 7 pm Pacific time, with premiere shows adding $236,000 to the opening and the final Tuesday tally still to be consolidated. Tuesday’s jump over Monday is the discount-day effect at work: North American theatres cut ticket prices on Tuesdays, and Scene used the cheaper day to outgross its Monday by nearly half. The film played across 278 locations on Tuesday.

The film needs $1.7 million to break even in North America, per Koimoi’s earlier tracking — leaving it roughly $45,000 short, a gap the final Tuesday numbers alone may close. Monday’s total had stood at $1.47 million across the United States and Canada, and the film’s Tamil version has driven the bulk of the business, contributing $1.04 million of the first three days’ $1.34 million.

Here is the Filmverse take: what makes this run notable is not one big day but the consistency of Suriya’s year. Scene is his fourth $1 million-plus grosser in North America and his third of 2026, and all three of his 2026 releases now sit among Kollywood’s five biggest North American grossers of the year. For a mid-budget dark comedy without the scale of a Ramayana, holding second-weekend screens in the US and Canada comes down to exactly this kind of weekday resilience — and a breakeven that arrives inside the first week changes the conversation around the film from “solid opener” to “profitable overseas bet.” We reported the fourth $1 million milestone here: https://filmverse.in/scene-north-america-box-office-suriya-fourth-million-dollar-grosser/

In India, meanwhile, the film collected Rs 12.85 crore net on Tuesday for a five-day India net of Rs 97.40 crore and a worldwide gross of Rs 174.40 crore — our Day 5 report is here: https://filmverse.in/scene-day-5-final-box-office-12-85-crore-worldwide-174-crore/

Sources: Koimoi, Sacnilk, Venky Box Office — all box-office figures are trade estimates, not producer figures.