ScreenProfits

SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

Kill the Messenger

2014 · Michael Cuesta · Pamela Abdy | Naomi Despres | Jeremy Renner | Scott Stuber · 1 hr 52 min

Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.

Cast Salaries

Cast Salaries

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Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Jeremy Renner 2014 $750,000 $1,019,962 (est)
Rosemarie DeWitt 2014 $266,144 $361,942 (est)
Ray Liotta 2014 $350,000 $475,982 (est)
Tim Blake Nelson 2014 $213,741 $290,677 (est)
Barry Pepper 2014 $175,000 $237,991 (est)
Oliver Platt 2014 $100,000 $135,995 (est)
Michael Sheen 2014 $100,000 $135,995 (est)
Michael K. Williams 2014 $100,000 $135,995 (est)
Mary Elizabeth Winstead 2014 $100,000 $135,995 (est)
Andy Garcia 2014 $100,000 $135,995 (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. 2014 $2,450,846 $3,333,026
International International theatrical box office gross. 2014 $2,768,127 $3,764,512
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 2014 $5,218,973 $6,916,738
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. 2014 $2,332,674 (est) $3,172,318 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2014 $227,239 $309,033
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2014 $174,285 $237,018
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2014 $145,542 $197,930
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: DVD $193,099, BluRay $81,189 2014 $274,289 $373,019
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2014 $463,302 (est) $630,067 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2014 $3,617,330 $4,919,385
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 2014 $5,000,000 $6,626,531
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: $4,235,128 | Reg Main Pred: $5,336,346 2014 $4,539,000 (est) $6,172,810 (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 $59,324 (est) $80,678 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2014 $600,000 (est) $815,970 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2014 $10,198,324 $13,695,989
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 2014 $-6,580,994 $-8,776,603
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