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SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

Chasing the Blues

2018 · John Landis · Robert K. Weiss · 1 hr 17 min

Two rivals try to con an old woman for a rare 1930s Blues record. After going to jail for over 20 years, they're released and seek the vinyl from a tougher opponent.

Cast Salaries

Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
John Belushi 2018 $825,000 $1,057,616 (est)
Dan Aykroyd 2018 $884,721 $1,134,176 (est)
James Brown 2018 $343,750 $440,674 (est)
Cab Calloway 2018 $585,957 $751,173 (est)
Ray Charles 2018 $137,500 $176,269 (est)
Carrie Fisher 2018 $550,000 $705,078 (est)
Aretha Franklin 2018 $136,284 $174,711 (est)
Henry Gibson 2018 $223,639 $286,696 (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. 2018 $14,030 $17,986
International International theatrical box office gross. 2018 $0 $0
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 2018 $14,030 $17,528

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. 2018 $7,015 (est) $8,993 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2018 $2,263 $2,901
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2018 $2,256 $2,893
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2018 $601 $770
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: DVD $900, BluRay $552 2018 $1,451 $1,861
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2018 $2,691 (est) $3,450 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2018 $16,278 $20,867
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 2018 $27,500,000 $34,355,834
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: $150,246 | Reg Main Pred: $397,091 2018 $80,000 (est) $102,557 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2018 $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. 2018 $236 (est) $303 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2018 $3,300,000 (est) $4,230,466 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2018 $30,880,236 $38,689,160
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 2018 $-30,863,958 $-38,668,292

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