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SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

Balloon

2019 · Michael Herbig · Michael Herbig · 2 hr 5 min

East Germany, 1979. After initially failing to flee from the East to the West in a self-built hot-air balloon, two families struggle to make a second attempt, while the East German State Police are chasing them.

Cast Salaries

Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Friedrich Mücke 2019 $195,540 $246,165 (est)
Karoline Schuch 2019 $130,360 $164,110 (est)
David Kross 2019 $456,260 $574,384 (est)
Alicia von Rittberg 2019 $52,144 $65,644 (est)
Thomas Kretschmann 2019 $228,130 $287,192 (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. 2019 $34,222 $43,082
International International theatrical box office gross. 2019 $11,765,369 $14,811,389
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 2019 $11,799,591 $14,476,072

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. 2019 $4,723,259 (est) $5,946,097 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2019 $26,402 $33,238
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2019 $26,744 $33,668
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2019 $6,258 $7,879
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: DVD $10,013, BluRay $6,676 2019 $16,689 $21,010
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2019 $10,428 (est) $13,127 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2019 $4,809,780 $6,055,018
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 2019 $6,518,000 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: 1 | Peer Count: 0 | Reg Box Pred: $1,820,539 | Reg Main Pred: $2,155,169 2019 $1,915,000 (est) $2,410,788 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2019 $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. 2019 $67,818 (est) $85,376 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2019 $782,160 (est) $984,659 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2019 $9,282,978 $11,686,314
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 2019 $-4,473,198 $-5,631,296

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