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The Beauty Academy of Kabul

2005 · Laura Poitras · Laura Poitras | Nan Goldin | Yoni Golijov | Clare Carter | John Lyons | Howard Gertler · 1 hr 14 min

A documentary following American women (some of whom emigrated from Afghanistan in the early 1980s) who return to the capital city of Kabul to open an American-style school for beauticians. Some of their students are women who maintained "underground" beauty salons while the city was under strict Taliban control.

Cast Salaries

Cast Salaries

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Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Nan Goldin 2005 $35,624 $58,717 (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. 2005 $225,448 $371,591
International International theatrical box office gross. 2005 $0 $0
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 2005 $225,448 $362,125
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. 2005 $112,724 (est) $185,795 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2005 $2,629 $4,333
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2005 $482 $795
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2005 $35,249 $58,099
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: VHS $1,022, DVD $50,072 2005 $51,094 $84,214
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2005 $47,402 (est) $78,129 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2005 $249,580 $411,367
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 2005 $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: $187,758 | Reg Main Pred: $470,641 2005 $158,000 (est) $260,421 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2005 $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. 2005 $6,165 (est) $10,161 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2005 $30,000 (est) $49,447 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2005 $444,165 $732,087
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 2005 $-194,584 $-320,720
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