ScreenProfits

SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

Spontaneous Combustion

1990 · Tobe Hooper · Henry Bushkin | Sanford Hampton | Jerrold W. Lambert | Jim Rogers | Arthur M. Sarkissian · 1 hr 37 min

A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.

Cast Salaries

Cast Salaries

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Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Brad Dourif 1990 $37,500 $92,358 (est)
Cynthia Bain 1990 $5,000 $12,314 (est)
Jon Cypher 1990 $3,125 $7,697 (est)
William Prince 1990 $12,500 $30,786 (est)
Melinda Dillon 1990 $8,750 $21,550 (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. 1990 $50,367 $124,048
International International theatrical box office gross. 1990 $0 $0
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 1990 $50,367 $120,889
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. 1990 $25,184 (est) $62,024 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1990 $0 $0
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1990 $0 $0
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1990 $9,555 $23,533
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: VHS $3,982 1990 $3,982 $9,807
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1990 $13,792 (est) $33,968 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 1990 $52,512 $129,332
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 1990 $250,000 N/A
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: $121,200 | Reg Main Pred: $462,676 1990 $80,000 (est) $197,031 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1990 $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. 1990 $1,208 (est) $2,975 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1990 $30,000 (est) $73,887 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 1990 $361,208 $889,616
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 1990 $-308,695 $-760,284
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