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SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

Half of a Yellow Sun

2014 · Biyi Bandele · Andrea Calderwood | Gail Egan · 1 hr 51 min

Sisters Olanna and Kainene return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. As civil war breaks out, political events loom larger than their differences as they join the fight to establish an independent republic.

Cast Salaries

Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Thandiwe Newton 2014 $240,000 $326,388 (est)
Chiwetel Ejiofor 2014 $160,000 $217,592 (est)
Anika Noni Rose 2014 $112,000 $152,314 (est)
Joseph Mawle 2014 $80,000 $108,796 (est)
John Boyega 2014 $56,000 $76,157 (est)
Onyeka Onwenu 2014 $20,534 $27,925 (est)
Genevieve Nnaji 2014 $18,434 $25,069 (est)
Hakeem Kae-Kazim 2014 $16,789 $22,832 (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. 2014 $54,529 $74,157
International International theatrical box office gross. 2014 $251,864 $342,522
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 2014 $306,393 $406,065

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. 2014 $128,010 (est) $174,087 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2014 $6,304 $8,573
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2014 $4,742 $6,449
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2014 $4,486 $6,101
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: DVD $5,952, BluRay $2,503 2014 $8,455 $11,498
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2014 $10,855 (est) $14,763 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2014 $162,852 $221,471
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 2014 $1,600,000 $2,120,490
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: $522,993 | Reg Main Pred: $1,247,666 2014 $245,000 (est) $333,188 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2014 $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. 2014 $2,671 (est) $3,632 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2014 $192,000 (est) $261,110 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2014 $2,039,671 $2,718,420
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 2014 $-1,876,819 $-2,496,949

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