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SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

A Better Life

2011 · Chris Weitz · Paul Junger Witt | Christian McLaughlin | Chris Weitz | Jami Gertz · 1 hr 38 min

A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while trying to give his son the opportunities he never had.

Cast Salaries

Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Demián Bichir 2011 $863,845 $1,236,424 (est)

Box Office Reported grosses are direct imports. Inflation-adjusted values use imported adjusted totals when available, otherwise they use the yearly U.S. CPI table you maintain in WordPress.

Inflation-adjusted values are shown in 2025 dollars when CPI data is available.

Category Year Reported Inflation Adjusted
Domestic Domestic theatrical box office gross. 2011 $1,759,252 $2,518,022
International International theatrical box office gross. 2011 $104,254 $149,219
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 2011 $1,863,506 $2,599,297

Earnings / Profitability

Estimated revenues and expenses for films based on currently imported reported and estimated fields. Inflation-adjusted values use the CPI table when direct adjusted values are not present in the export.

Category Year Reported Inflation Adjusted
Revenues
Theatrical Net Revenue Estimated distributor theatrical revenue using the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2011 $921,328 (est) $1,318,699 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2011 $96,909 $138,706
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2011 $57,251 $81,943
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2011 $143,027 $204,715
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: DVD $177,305, BluRay $50,009 2011 $227,314 $325,355
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2011 $337,747 (est) $483,418 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2011 $1,783,575 $2,552,836
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 2011 $10,000,000 $13,948,422
Print & Advertising (P&A) P&A Estimated using Machine Learning sourceSource: ML P&A estimate (peer+ridge)Machine-learned P&A estimate based on peer comps and regression inputs. Reestimate Prior Estimate | Covid Mult: 1 | Peer Count: 0 | Reg Box Pred: $2,656,257 | Reg Main Pred: $3,178,748 2011 $1,491,000 (est) $2,134,072 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2011 $0 (est) $0 (est)
Residuals Residual and related distribution expense line. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2011 $32,639 (est) $46,717 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2011 $1,200,000 (est) $1,717,563 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2011 $12,723,639 $17,846,774
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 2011 $-10,940,064 $-15,293,938

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