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SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

The Pickle

1993 · Paul Mazursky · Paul Mazursky · 1 hr 43 min

Harry Stone (Danny Aiello), a formerly top notch director, has had three disastrous movies in a row. Facing dismissal from the top perch of Hollywood and financial ruin from back taxes, he is forced to take on a very commercial and, he believes, ridiculous movie. Now as he faces the film's release and, he believes, another total flop which will complete his ruin, he meets up with his son and daughter and his former wives (which includes Dyan Cannon) to examine his life and his future. The film examines the turmoil a movie director goes through with a film release. His agent (Jerry Stiller) assures him that he has a hit, while those around him wince (as does the audience) at the thought of the movie within the movie. The movie is "The Pickle", a supposedly social satire where a bunch of kids from Kansas take vegetables into space via a super cucumber and land on an Earth-like planet where everyone lives only on beef and die at age 49. As shown in the excerpts of the film, Little Richard stars as the President of the planet who has 6 months to live, Ally Sheedy heads up the Kansas contingent, and Griffin Dunne is the President's aide who falls in love with Sheedy.

Comedy Drama
Cast Salaries

Cast Salaries

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Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Danny Aiello 1993 $37,500 $83,538 (est)
Dyan Cannon 1993 $25,000 $55,692 (est)
Clotilde Courau 1993 $17,500 $38,984 (est)
Shelley Winters 1993 $12,500 $27,846 (est)
Barry Miller 1993 $8,750 $19,492 (est)
Jerry Stiller 1993 $5,000 $11,138 (est)
Chris Penn 1993 $5,000 $11,138 (est)
Ally Sheedy 1993 $5,000 $11,138 (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. 1993 $84,471 $188,174
International International theatrical box office gross. 1993 $0 $0
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 1993 $84,471 $183,381
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. 1993 $42,236 (est) $94,087 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1993 $0 $0
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1993 $0 $0
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1993 $16,871 $37,584
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: VHS $8,289 1993 $8,289 $18,465
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1993 $21,438 (est) $47,756 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 1993 $88,833 $197,892
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 1993 $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: $173,444 | Reg Main Pred: $536,689 1993 $80,000 (est) $178,215 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1993 $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. 1993 $2,132 (est) $4,749 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1993 $30,000 (est) $66,830 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 1993 $362,132 $806,715
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 1993 $-273,299 $-608,823
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