SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

Full Moon in Blue Water

Name: Full Moon in Blue Water
Released: Nov 23, 1988
Rating: 33.45

On an island off the gulf coast of Texas, a roadhouse owner is a recluse since the mysterious disappearance of his wife. Into his life comes a woman who tries to help him and save his floundering business as his troubles begin piling up.

Comedy Drama Romance

Release year

1988

Release date

November 23, 1988

Franchise

N/A

Genres

ComedyDramaRomance

Runtime

1 hr 35 min

Distributors

Trans WorldEntertainment TWE

MPAA rating

N/A

Directors

Peter Masterson

Screenwriters

N/A

Writers

N/A

Producers

Moshe Diamant (executive producer)David Foster (producer)Dennis Stuart Murphy (associate producer)Eduard Sarlui (executive producer)John Turman (producer)Lawrence Turman (producer)

Studios

Trans World Entertainment

Production companies

Trans World EntertainmentTurman-Foster Company

Cinematography

Fred Murphy

Edited by

Jill Savitt

Music by

Phil Marshall

Based on

N/A

Budget

$8M

Estimated Profit

-$9M

Est Profit Inflation Adj

-$24M

Cast Salaries

Cast	Year	Salary	Inflation adjusted salary	Notes
Gene Hackman	1988	$1,050,706	$2,859,022	(est)
Teri Garr	1988	$217,783	$592,598	(est)
Burgess Meredith	1988	$246,795	$671,541	(est)
Elias Koteas	1988	$389,216	$1,059,075	(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.	1988	$450,726	$1,226,447
International International theatrical box office gross.	1988	$0	$0
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross.	1988	$450,726	$1,195,205

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.	1988	$220,856 (est)	$600,959 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	1988	$0	$0
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	1988	$0	$0
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	1988	$62,570	$170,255
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: VHS $24,055	1988	$24,055	$65,454
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	1988	$119,215 (est)	$324,389 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view.	1988	$426,694	$1,161,056
Expenses
Budget Production budget.	1988	$8,000,000	$21,213,863
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: $567,125 \| Reg Main Pred: $1,191,163	1988	$361,000 (est)	$982,298 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	1988	$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.	1988	$9,259 (est)	$25,195 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	1988	$944,000 (est)	$2,568,669 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view.	1988	$9,314,259	$24,790,026
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model.	1988	$-8,887,565	$-23,628,970

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