ScreenProfits

SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

What We Do in the Shadows

2015 · Jemaine Clement | Taika Waititi · Taika Waititi | Chelsea Winstanley | Emanuel Michael · 1 hr 26 min

Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are struggling with the mundane aspects of modern life, like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.

Cast Salaries

Cast Salaries

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Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Jemaine Clement 2015 $240,000 $325,975 (est)
Taika Waititi 2015 $160,000 $217,316 (est)
Jonathan Brugh 2015 $42,646 $57,923 (est)
Cori Gonzalez-Macuer 2015 $34,868 $47,359 (est)
Stu Rutherford 2015 $29,826 $40,511 (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. 2015 $3,469,224 $4,711,997
International International theatrical box office gross. 2015 $3,819,506 $5,187,759
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 2015 $7,288,730 $9,647,572
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. 2015 $3,262,414 (est) $4,431,102 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2015 $293,273 $398,331
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2015 $245,975 $334,090
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2015 $130,484 $177,227
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: DVD $179,022, BluRay $81,943 2015 $260,965 $354,450
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2015 $626,025 (est) $850,284 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2015 $4,819,135 $6,545,484
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 2015 $1,600,000 $2,117,806
Print & Advertising (P&A) Estimated prints and advertising cost. sourceSource: A Case Study: What We Do in the Shadows (2014) - Social Media and the Film IndustryURL: https://emmawrightsmt.wordpress.com/2015/07/24/a-case-study-what-we-do-in-the-shadows-2014/Thanks to clever marketing, the film raised $446,666 from 7,204 backers on Kickstarter between January 15 and February 13 of this year. 2015 $447,000 $607,128
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2015 $287,904 (est) $391,039 (est)
Residuals Residual and related distribution expense line. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2015 $76,624 (est) $104,073 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2015 $192,000 (est) $260,780 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2015 $2,603,528 $3,480,826
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 2015 $2,215,607 $3,064,658
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