SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

A Writer's Odyssey

Name: A Writer's Odyssey
Released: Feb 12, 2021
Rating: 79.3

COVID-era release This film was released during the COVID-era box office disruption (March 13, 2020 to June 30, 2021), which may materially affect theatrical performance, downstream revenues, and profitability comparisons.

2021 · Lu Yang · Ning Hao · 2 hr 10 min

Six years after the abduction of his daughter, a man is hired to kill the author of a fantasy novel, but the world of the novel seems to intersect with reality.

Action Adventure Fantasy Mystery

Release year

2021

Release date

February 12, 2021

Franchise

N/A

Genres

ActionAdventureFantasyMystery

Runtime

2 hr 10 min

Distributors

CMC Pictures

MPAA rating

N/A

Directors

Lu Yang

Screenwriters

N/A

Writers

N/A

Producers

Ning Hao

Studios

CMC Pictures

Production companies

CMC Productions

Cinematography

Qiming Han

Edited by

Lin ZhuLiyun Zhu

Music by

Jed Kurzel

Based on

A Writer's Odysseyby Shuang Xuetao

Budget

$77M

Estimated Profit

-$31M

Est Profit Inflation Adj

-$37M

Cast Salaries

Cast	Year	Salary	Inflation adjusted salary	Notes
Lei Jiayin	2021	$1,500,000	$1,781,734	(est)
Yang Mi	2021	$769,838	$914,431	(est)
Dong Zijian	2021	$443,195	$526,437	(est)
Yu Hewei	2021	$1,440,692	$1,711,287	(est)
Guo Jingfei	2021	$769,573	$914,116	(est)

Box Office

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.	2021	$160,013	$190,067
International International theatrical box office gross.	2021	$149,963,307	$178,129,847
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross.	2021	$150,123,320	$173,777,437

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.	2021	$60,065,329 (est)	$71,346,972 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2021	$142,252	$168,971
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2021	$88,872	$105,564
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2021	$9,005	$10,696
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: DVD $15,373, BluRay $13,095	2021	$28,468	$33,815
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2021	$34,996 (est)	$41,569 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view.	2021	$60,368,923	$71,707,588
Expenses
Budget Production budget.	2021	$77,127,000	N/A
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: 0.72 peak theatrical \| Peer Count: 0 \| Reg Box Pred: $6,900,385 \| Reg Main Pred: $5,102,881	2021	$4,538,000 (est)	$5,390,340 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2021	$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.	2021	$845,165 (est)	$1,003,906 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2021	$9,255,240 (est)	$10,993,586 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view.	2021	$91,765,405	$109,001,047
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model.	2021	$-31,396,482	$-37,293,460

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