Hi , 

We often get asked how to do revenue projections for a film. How do you even begin to estimate how much income your film will bring in over time? The answer, of course, is the only way you can show investors what and when their ROI might be.  

 

One way to project revenue is to find comparable films - those with similar budgets, genres and distribution to yours - and use their box office revenue to estimate your own, so you end up with something like this: 

You can use the-numbers, IMDB and/or Box Office Mojo. It's been the way we've done things for years...but oh-so-many of you have let us know how much you hate the tedious work. You just want to get on with filming, right? 

 

 

We hired Nash Info Services, the movie data gurus behind https://www.the-numbers.com to create a completely custom spreadsheet for us analyzing indie and studio films 2006-2020. Our spreadsheet has over 370 titles with: 

Now, let's be clear. You can get a lot of this information yourselves - for free. Let's use Birdman as an example: 
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Birdman#tab=summary

Our spreadsheet includes everything under Theatrical Performance and Home Market Performance. Then you could scroll through each tab and pull a lot of the other numbers yourselves. 

And then you could do that for 10-20 films. And you could do it after you even figure out which 10-20 movies you want to use as your comparable films, after researching which are Indie vs Studio. It's how it's always been done. 

 

What we're offering is you can just filter for let's say, Indie Films & Comedy and BOOM!!! In 5 seconds...you have this (goes all the way out to Column U). You can see a larger screenshot of the database here. 

You can sort, filter, compare numbers, do whatever you like to make sure you narrow down the best comparable films for your business plan. Then just copy/paste the numbers right into your Business Plan Template. This info is even better if used as you write your screenplay - see what does well. See which movies just like yours brought in the most at the box office. 

 

We just saved you - and ourselves - hours and hours of time and effort, which helps all of us get to financing and filming sooner. 

 

Want to take your Financial Projections to the next level? Have Nash Info Services do ALL the work for you!  All you need to do is pick 10 films from our Custom Indie Film Database (included with the purchase of this service) you believe are similar to yours in terms of budget, genre and production method. Submit these films to us and we'll use them as your Comparable Films to work our magic.

Sit back and relax.....and in about 2 weeks, you'll open your email and find this...

 

Buy the Filmproposals Custom Indie Film Database separately or add it on with a discount to any of our Film Financing Toolkits. You can read more about the Financial Projections Template and Database here. 

 

PS - S/VOD info is NOT included in our spreadsheet. While we know a lot of content has been released this way the last few years, there just is not enough information right now to provide any meaningful analysis. There are also so many different types of release patterns, it's hard to do any apples to apples comparison.  Once you pick your movies, you can research just those 10-20 numbers on your own, where available. 

Any questions? Suggestions? Just hit reply and let me know!

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- Barry