SAMPLE OF INDEPENDENT FILM BOX OFFICE GROSSES
| Indie
Feature |
Distributor |
Production
Cost |
US
Box Office Gross |
Foreign
Gross |
Gross
Profits1 |
| Open
Water |
Lion’s
Gate |
$500,000 |
$30,168,753 |
$10,000,000 |
$39,668,753 |
| Pulp
Fiction |
Miramax |
$8,000,000 |
$107,928,762 |
$106,000,000 |
$205,928,762 |
| Monster |
Newmarket |
$8,000,000 |
$34,469,210 |
$25,909,374 |
$52,378,584 |
| The
Blair Witch |
Artisan |
$200,000 |
$140,539,099 |
$108,100,000 |
$248,439,099 |
| My
Big Fat Greek Wedding |
IFC
Films |
$5,000,000 |
$241,438,208 |
$127,305,836 |
$363,744,044 |
| Garden
State2 |
Miramax
&
Fox Searchlight |
$2,500,000 |
$21,153,788 |
N/A |
$18,653,788 |
| The
Brothers McMullen |
Fox
Searchlight |
$238,000 |
$10,462,506 |
N/A |
$10,224,506 |
| Sex,
Lies and Videotape |
Miramax |
$1,200,000 |
$24,174,667 |
N/A |
$22,974,667 |
| Napoleon
Dynamite |
Fox
Searchlight |
$400,000 |
$33,629,318 |
N/A |
$33,229,318 |
| In
the Bedroom |
Miramax |
$1,700,000 |
$35,930,604 |
$7,438,175 |
$41,668,779 |
| Super
Troopers |
Fox
Searchlight |
$3,000,000 |
$18,492,362 |
$4,689,861 |
$20,182,223 |
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