SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

Out of the Past

Name: Out of the Past
Released: Jul 31, 1998
Rating: 81.25

1998 · Steven Soderbergh · Danny DeVito | Michael Shamberg | Stacey Sher · 1 hr 37 min

In 1995, Kelli Peterson started a gay and straight club at her Salt Lake City high school. The story of her ensuing battle with school authorities in interspersed with looks back at the diary of Michael Wigglesworth, a 17th-century Puritan cleric, at the 30-year love affair of Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Adams Fields, at Henry Gerber's attempt after World War I to establish a gay-rights organization, at Bayard Rustin's role in the civil rights movement, and at Barbara Gittings' taking on of the American Psychiatric Association's position that homosexuality is illness. One person comments, "To create a place for ourselves in the present, we have to find ourselves in the past."

Documentary Homosexual Theme LGBTQ Theme

Release year

1998

Release date

July 31, 1998

Franchise

N/A

Genres

DocumentaryHomosexual ThemeLGBTQ Theme

Runtime

1 hr 37 min

Distributors

Zeitgeist Films

MPAA rating

N/A

Directors

Steven Soderbergh

Screenwriters

Scott Frank

Writers

N/A

Producers

Danny DeVitoMichael ShambergStacey Sher

Studios

Universal Pictures

Production companies

Jersey Films

Cinematography

Elliot Davis

Edited by

Anne V. Coates

Music by

David Holmes

Based on

Out of Sightby Elmore Leonard

Budget

$250K

Estimated Profit

-$347K

Est Profit Inflation Adj

-$93M

Cast Salaries

Cast	Year	Salary	Inflation adjusted salary	Notes
George Clooney	1998	$37,500	$74,057	(est)
Jennifer Lopez	1998	$25,000	$49,371	(est)
Ving Rhames	1998	$17,500	$34,560	(est)
Don Cheadle	1998	$12,500	$24,686	(est)
Dennis Farina	1998	$8,750	$17,280	(est)
Albert Brooks	1998	$5,000	$9,874	(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.	1998	$9,078	$17,928
International International theatrical box office gross.	1998	$0	$0
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross.	1998	$9,078	$17,471

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.	1998	$4,539 (est)	$8,964 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	1998	$0	$0
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	1998	$0	$0
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	1998	$3,271	$6,460
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: VHS $2,307, DVD $201	1998	$2,508	$4,953
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	1998	$2,932 (est)	$5,790 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view.	1998	$13,249	$26,165
Expenses
Budget Production budget.	1998	$250,000	$92,377,914
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: $25,668 \| Reg Main Pred: $168,688	1998	$80,000 (est)	$157,988 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	1998	$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.	1998	$297 (est)	$586 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	1998	$30,000 (est)	$59,245 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view.	1998	$360,297	$92,595,733
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model.	1998	$-347,047	$-92,569,568

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