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SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

Big Shot's Funeral

2003 · Feng Xiaogang · Yang Buting | Wang Zhongjun | Tong Gang | Wang Zhonglei | He Ping · 1 hr 47 min

Yankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, studio boss sells the sagging picture to a Japanese media company. But YoYo is determined to upstage the whole production by granting the director's wish to have a grand "comedy funeral". To raise the money for it, he auctions off advertising and sponsorships for the funeral to companies around the world. But wait...is Don getting better?

Comedy Drama Foreign Language
Cast Salaries

Cast Salaries

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Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Ge You 2003 $495,000 $865,981 (est)
Rosamund Kwan 2003 $156,333 $273,498 (est)
Donald Sutherland 2003 $231,000 $404,124 (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.

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Category Year Reported Inflation Adjusted
Domestic Domestic theatrical box office gross. 2003 $820 $1,435
International International theatrical box office gross. 2003 $50,239 $87,891
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 2003 $51,059 $87,050
Earnings / Profitability

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.

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Category Year Reported Inflation Adjusted
Revenues
Theatrical Net Revenue Estimated distributor theatrical revenue using the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2003 $20,506 (est) $35,874 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2003 $1,815 $3,176
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2003 $0 $0
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2003 $45,418 $79,456
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: VHS $8,053, DVD $49,467 2003 $57,520 $100,629
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2003 $15,575 (est) $27,248 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2003 $140,833 $246,382
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 2003 $3,300,000 $5,626,141
Print & Advertising (P&A) Estimated prints and advertising cost. sourceSource: Genre Film, Media Corporations, and the Commercialisation of the Chinese Film Industry: The Case of “New Year Comedies” - Simon Fraser UniversityURL: https://www.sfu.ca/~shuyuk/original%20papers/Genre%20Film,%20Media%20Corporations%20and%20the%20Commercialization%20of%20the%20Chinese%20Film%20Industry.pdfThe Chinese producer of the film, Huayi Brothers, earmarked a massive 15 million yuan for advertising and marketing, with 400 master copies of the film pre-booked and numerous venues for flashy promotional activities, including Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore (B. Chen, 2005). 2003 $1,812,000 $3,170,015
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2003 $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. 2003 $3,394 (est) $5,938 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2003 $396,000 (est) $692,785 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2003 $5,511,394 $9,494,879
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 2003 $-5,370,561 $-9,248,497
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