Home Media Magazine - April 20-26, 2008 - (Page 22)

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 April 13, 2008 VIDEO DATE LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Alvin and the Chipmunks There Will Be Blood Alvin and the Chipmunks Lions for Lambs The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Reservation Road Sweeney Todd I Am Legend The Mist Resurrecting the Champ 4/8/08 4/1/08 4/8/08 4/8/08 4/8/08 4/8/08 4/1/08 3/18/08 3/25/08 4/8/08 Paramount Fox Fox/MGM Sony Pictures Sony Pictures Universal Paramount/DreamWorks Warner Genius/Weinstein Fox Drama Family Thriller Fantasy Comedy Drama Musical Sci-Fi Horror Drama Source: Blockbuster Inc. 10 ‘Alvin’ Tops Charts Again By Thomas K. Arnold lvin! You’ve done it again. Alvin and the Chipmunks, from 20th Century Fox, was the top DVD seller for the second consecutive week, while Paramount’s Oscar-lauded There Will Be Blood topped the rental chart its debut week in stores. Alvin beat back a stiff challenge from Sony Pictures’ The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep to remain atop the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart in the week ended April 13. The Sony fantasy, which grossed $40.4 million in theaters, debuted at No. 2, just ahead of There Will Be Blood. Other new DVDs debuting in the First Alert TOP 10 RANK STREET TITLE I N DI E RE TA I L E R RE N TA L S Week ended April 13, 2008 VIDEO DATE LABEL GENRE A Top 10 include Sony Pictures’ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story at No. 5 and MGM’s Lions for Lambs at No. 7. In rental stores, There Will Be Blood generated an estimated $8.5 million, or 21.5% of its theatrical gross, to top Home Media Magazine’s video rental chart for the week. Alvin, the previous week’s top renter, finished a strong No. 2, generating an estimated $7.2 million its sophomore week in stores. Lions for Lambs debuted at No. 3 with $6.8 million, The Water Horse bowed at No. 4 with $6.7 million, and Walk Hard finished seventh with estimated rental revenue of $5.7 million. Warner’s I Am Legend was again the topselling Blu-ray Disc title for the week. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Alvin and the Chipmunks There Will Be Blood I Am Legend Lions for Lambs The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep Sweeney Todd No Country for Old Men Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Dan in Real Life Atonement 4/1/08 4/8/08 3/18/08 4/8/08 4/8/08 4/1/08 3/11/08 4/8/08 3/11/08 3/18/08 Fox Paramount Warner Fox/MGM Sony Pictures Paramount/DreamWorks Disney/Miramax Sony Pictures Disney/Touchstone Universal Family Drama Sci-Fi Thriller Fantasy Musical Drama Comedy Comedy Drama Source: iDEA DataMine www.idealink.org/datamine TOP 20 DVD SELLERS Week Ended April 13, 2008 RANK THIS LAST WEEK WEEK TITLE GENRE VIDEO LABEL WEEKS ON CHART BOX OFFICE (MILLIONS) INDEX 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep Sony Pictures 1 New New 2 New 3 New 4 5 7 New 6 12 8 13 9 New New 11 New Alvin and the Chipmunks The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep There Will Be Blood Sweeney Todd Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story I Am Legend Lions for Lambs Enchanted No Country for Old Men Bee Movie P2 The Mist August Rush Atonement American Gangster Hitman Resurrecting the Champ Reservation Road 101 Dalmations: Platinum Edition The Good Shepherd Family Fantasy Drama Musical Comedy Sci-Fi Thriller Fantasy Drama Animated Horror Horror Drama Drama Drama Action Drama Drama Animated Thriller Fox Sony Pictures Paramount Paramount/DreamWorks Sony Pictures Warner Fox/MGM Disney Disney/Miramax Paramount/DreamWorks Summit Genius/Weinstein Warner Universal Universal Fox Fox Universal Disney Universal 2 1 1 2 1 4 1 4 5 5 1 3 5 4 8 5 1 1 6 1 $216.50 $40.41 $40.19 $52.90 $18.32 $256.24 $15.00 $127.81 $73.67 $126.63 $4.00 $25.59 $31.66 $50.84 $129.77 $39.69 $3.17 $0.12 Re-release $59.91 100.00 65.51 63.27 30.41 29.62 27.77 26.00 20.61 12.59 10.34 8.89 8.09 5.79 5.67 5.59 5.53 5.37 5.23 5.03 4.95 8 9 10 11 Unit volume for the top 20 DVD sellers in the week ended April 13, 2008, was 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Down 36% from the previous week. Source: Nielsen VideoScan First Alert 22 Home Media Magazine April 20–26, 2008 http://www.idealink.org/datamine

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