Home Media Magazine - February 24, 2008 - (Page 34) Home A R C H Media RESE RESEARCH Market Research Kelly Burner (kburner@questex.com) To get an early weekly report of our research via fax (by participating in our data-gathering effort), call the Home Media Research department at 714/338-6756. TOP 10 RANK STREET TITLE I N - S TO RE RE N TA L S Week ended February 17, 2008 VIDEO DATE LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Why Did I Get Married? Gone Baby Gone We Own the Night The Game Plan I Could Never Be Your Woman Good Luck Chuck Why Did I Get Married? Becoming Jane 3:10 to Yuma Mr. Woodcock Elizabeth: The Golden Age 2/12/08 2/12/08 1/22/08 2/12/08 1/15/08 2/12/08 2/12/08 1/8/08 1/15/08 2/5/08 Disney/Miramax Sony Pictures Disney Genius/Weinstein Lionsgate Lionsgate Disney/Miramax Lionsgate New Line Universal Drama Drama Comedy Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama Western Comedy Drama Source: Blockbuster Inc. 8 9 10 Tyler Perry Tops Sales Chart By Thomas K. Arnold ionsgate captured the top spot on the national DVD sales chart with Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married?, the latest bestselling DVD in the successful franchise. The film, which grossed $55 million in theaters, debuted at No. 1 on the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart for the week ended Feb. 17, beating several theatrical competitors from the major studios. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s We Own the Night, with $28.6 million in box office receipts, debuted at No. 2. Warner Home Video’s No Reservations ($43.1 million) bowed at No. 3, while Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment’s Gone Baby Gone ($19.6 million) entered the chart at No. 5, right behind Disney’s Snow Buddies, the previous week’s top DVD seller. Another Tyler Perry release, the play What’s Done L in the Dark, also from Lionsgate, debuted at No. 8. Gone Baby Gone may not have generated huge purchase demand, but it did emerge as the week’s top renter, according to Home Media Magazine’s video rental chart for the week. The Disney/Miramax crime drama, written and directed by Ben Affleck, generated an estimated $8.9 million in rental revenue. We Own the Night, also in the crime-drama genre, debuted at No. 2 on the rental chart, with estimated earnings of $7.9 million. The romantic comedy No Reservations debuted at No. 5, with $4.6 million, while Why Did I Get Married? bowed at No. 15, with $3.5 million. On the high-definition disc front, We Own the Night was the top-selling Blu-ray Disc release of the week, with Gone Baby Gone debuting at No. 2. Paramount Home Entertainment’s Transformers was No. 1 on the HD DVD chart. TOP 10 RANK STREET TITLE I N DI E RE TA I L E R RE N TA L S Week ended February 17, 2008 VIDEO DATE LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 No Reservations We Own the Night The Brave One Gone Baby Gone The Assassination of Jesse James by … The Game Plan Why Did I Get Married? 3:10 to Yuma Good Luck Chuck Elizabeth: The Golden Age 2/12/08 2/12/08 2/5/08 2/12/08 2/5/08 1/22/08 2/12/08 1/8/08 1/15/08 2/5/08 Warner Sony Pictures Warner Disney/Miramax Warner Disney Lionsgate Lionsgate Lionsgate Universal Comedy Drama Thriller Drama Western Comedy Comedy Western Comedy Drama Source: iDEA DataMine www.idealink.org/datamine TOP 20 DVD SELLERS Week Ended February 17, 2008 RANK THIS LAST WEEK WEEK TITLE GENRE VIDEO LABEL WEEKS ON CHART BOX OFFICE (MILLIONS) INDEX 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 We Own the Night Sony Pictures New New New 1 New 2 New New 3 6 4 8 22 9 28 5 10 7 58 11 Why Did I Get Married? We Own the Night No Reservations Snow Buddies Gone Baby Gone Across the Universe Becoming Jane Tyler Perry’s What’s Done in the Dark The Brave One The Game Plan The Aristocats: Special Edition Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest 300 3:10 to Yuma Transformers The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Saw IV Elizabeth: The Golden Age The Notebook Good Luck Chuck Comedy Drama Comedy Family Drama Musical Drama Comedy Thriller Comedy Animated Comedy Action Western Sci-Fi Western Horror Drama Romance Comedy Lionsgate Sony Pictures Warner Disney Disney/Miramax Sony Pictures Disney/Miramax Lionsgate Warner Disney Disney Fox Warner Lionsgate Warner Lionsgate Universal New Line Lionsgate 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 4 2 5 29 6 2 4 2 5 5 $55.08 $28.56 $43.10 DTV $19.60 $22.40 $18.66 DTV $36.68 $89.73 Re-release NTV $210.59 $53.61 $316.48 $3.89 $63.14 $15.88 $81.00 $35.02 100.00 66.95 56.08 55.33 37.33 36.02 29.81 25.42 19.15 18.54 17.86 12.52 11.62 10.69 10.22 10.04 8.76 8.45 8.05 7.36 8 9 10 11 Unit volume for the top 20 DVD sellers in the week ended February 17, 2008, was 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Paramount/DreamWorks 18 Up 33.8% from the previous week. Source: Nielsen VideoScan First Alert 34 Home Media Magazine February 24–March 1, 2008 http://www.idealink.org/datamine
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