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Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

Name: Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
Released: Sep 26, 2008
Rating: 83.85

2008 · Stefan Forbes · Stefan Forbes | Noland Walker | Tia Wou · 1 hr 26 min

The Murrow, Polk, and IDA Award-winning documentary Boogie Man is about Lee Atwater, a blues-playing rogue whose rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a political rock star. He mentored George W. Bush and Karl Rove while leading the Republican party to historic victories, helping make liberal a dirty word, and transforming the way America elects our Presidents. In interviews with Republicans and friends of Atwater, Boogie Man examines his role in America's shift to the right. To Democrats offended by the 1988 Willie Horton controversy, Atwater was a remorseless political assassin dubbed by one Congresswoman "the most evil man in America." The film examines his irreverent sense of humor, his understanding of the American heartland, and his unapologetic vision of politics as war. It ends with a portrait of a cynic's deathbed search for meaning.

Biography Documentary Politics

Release year

2008

Release date

September 26, 2008

Franchise

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Genres

BiographyDocumentaryPolitics

Runtime

1 hr 26 min

Distributors

InterPositive Media

MPAA rating

N/A

Directors

Stefan Forbes

Screenwriters

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Writers

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Producers

Stefan ForbesNoland WalkerTia Wou

Studios

Interpositive Media LLC

Production companies

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Cinematography

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Edited by

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Music by

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Based on

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Budget

$250K

Estimated Profit

-$297K

Est Profit Inflation Adj

-$444K

Cast Salaries

Cast	Year	Salary	Inflation adjusted salary	Notes
Eric Alterman	2008	$7,500	$11,213	(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.	2008	$60,332	$90,204
International International theatrical box office gross.	2008	$0	$0
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross.	2008	$60,332	$87,906

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.	2008	$30,166 (est)	$45,102 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2008	$1,447	$2,163
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2008	$683	$1,022
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2008	$7,902	$11,815
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: DVD $10,576, BluRay $1,175	2008	$11,751	$17,570
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2008	$12,305 (est)	$18,398 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view.	2008	$64,255	$96,068
Expenses
Budget Production budget.	2008	$250,000	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: $93,595 \| Reg Main Pred: $331,150	2008	$80,000 (est)	$119,610 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2008	$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.	2008	$1,375 (est)	$2,056 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2008	$30,000 (est)	$44,854 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view.	2008	$361,375	$540,300
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model.	2008	$-297,120	$-444,232

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