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SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

My Big Fat Independent Movie

2005 · Philip Zlotorynski · Chris Gore · 1 hr 20 min

"My Big Fat Independent Movie" is a spoof along the lines of "Scary Movie" and "Not Another Teen Movie." It includes parodies of some of the indie film world's most renowned movies such as "Memento," "Pulp Fiction," "Magnolia," "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," "Amelie," "Run Lola Run," "El Mariachi," "The Good Girl," "Pi," "Swingers" and many others.

Cast Salaries

Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Pauly Shore 2005 $388,025 $639,556 (est)
Jason Mewes 2005 $138,605 $228,453 (est)
Clint Howard 2005 $98,472 $162,305 (est)
Paget Brewster 2005 $24,000 $39,558 (est)
Brian Krow 2005 $55,923 $92,174 (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. 2005 $4,655 $7,673
International International theatrical box office gross. 2005 $12,150,594 $20,027,016
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 2005 $12,155,249 $19,524,330

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. 2005 $4,862,565 (est) $8,014,643 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2005 $1,672 $2,756
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2005 $190 $313
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2005 $21,698 $35,763
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: VHS $704, DVD $34,503 2005 $35,207 $58,029
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2005 $7,719 (est) $12,723 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2005 $4,929,051 $8,124,227
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 2005 $3,000,000 $4,818,740
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: $708,540 | Reg Main Pred: $1,582,314 2005 $902,000 (est) $1,486,707 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2005 $68,163 (est) $112,348 (est)
Residuals Residual and related distribution expense line. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2005 $121,748 (est) $200,668 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2005 $360,000 (est) $593,364 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2005 $4,451,911 $7,211,828
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 2005 $477,141 $912,399

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