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SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

2023 · John Schlesinger · Jerome Hellman · 1 hr 41 min

Follows the behind-the-scenes odyssey to get Midnight Cowboy produced, as well as the tumultuous era in which the movie was released and embraced.

Cast Salaries

Cast Salaries

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Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Jon Voight 2023 $480,000 $507,096 (est)
Dustin Hoffman 2023 $320,000 $338,064 (est)
Brenda Vaccaro 2023 $91,132 $96,276 (est)
John McGiver 2023 $58,376 $61,671 (est)
Ruth White 2023 $49,934 $52,753 (est)
Sylvia Miles 2023 $64,000 $67,613 (est)
Barnard Hughes 2023 $64,000 $67,613 (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. 2023 $55,124 $58,236
International International theatrical box office gross. 2023 $0 $0
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 2023 $55,124 $56,752
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. 2023 $27,562 (est) $29,118 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2023 $6,235 $6,587
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2023 $7,655 $8,087
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2023 $299 $316
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: DVD $580, BluRay $642 2023 $1,222 $1,291
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2023 $9,435 (est) $9,968 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2023 $52,408 $55,367
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 2023 $3,200,000 $3,294,519
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: $148,763 | Reg Main Pred: $298,767 2023 $80,000 (est) $84,516 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2023 $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. 2023 $702 (est) $742 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2023 $384,000 (est) $405,676 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2023 $3,664,702 $3,785,453
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 2023 $-3,612,294 $-3,730,087
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