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SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

Movers & Shakers

1985 · William Asher · William Asher | Charles Grodin · 1 hr 20 min

Joe Mulholland, Head of Production at a Hollywood studio, makes a rather fool-hardy promise to a dying friend. He undertakes to make a major movie using the title - if not the content - of a best-selling sex manual "Love in Sex". Enlisting the help of depressed screenwriter Herb Derman and rather off-centre director Sid Spokane to try and come up with an idea or two, Joe soon wishes he was not one of those people who always try to keep their promises.

Comedy
Cast Salaries

Cast Salaries

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Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Walter Matthau 1985 $525,000 $1,570,609 (est)
Charles Grodin 1985 $350,000 $1,047,072 (est)
Vincent Gardenia 1985 $245,000 $732,951 (est)
Tyne Daly 1985 $140,365 $419,921 (est)
Bill Macy 1985 $59,175 $177,030 (est)
Gilda Radner 1985 $70,000 $209,414 (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. 1985 $372,438 $1,114,199
International International theatrical box office gross. 1985 $0 $0
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 1985 $372,438 $1,085,816
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. 1985 $176,908 (est) $529,244 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1985 $0 $0
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1985 $0 $0
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1985 $34,265 $102,509
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: VHS $10,801 1985 $10,801 $32,313
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1985 $99,889 (est) $298,831 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 1985 $321,863 $962,896
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 1985 $3,500,000 $10,203,996
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: $445,131 | Reg Main Pred: $562,894 1985 $298,000 (est) $891,507 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1985 $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. 1985 $6,276 (est) $18,776 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1985 $402,500 (est) $1,204,133 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 1985 $4,206,776 $12,318,414
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 1985 $-3,884,914 $-11,355,518
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