Home Media Magazine - September 30 - October 6, 2007 - (Page 26)

THE HOME MEDIA RESEARCH TEAM Home Media RESEARCH RESEARCH Market Research Director Judith McCourt (jmccourt@questex.com) Market Research Assistant 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 TITLE S U B S C R I PTI O N R E NTALS Week ended September 22, 2007 STREET DATE VIDEO LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Blades of Glory We Are Marshall Wild Hogs 300 Perfect Stranger Fracture Zodiac Disturbia Premonition Shooter 8/28/07 9/18/07 8/14/07 7/31/07 8/21/07 8/14/07 7/24/07 8/7/07 7/17/07 6/26/07 Paramount/DreamWorks Warner Disney/Touchstone Warner Sony Pictures New Line Paramount Paramount/DreamWorks Sony Pictures Paramount Comedy Drama Comedy Action Thriller Thriller Thriller Thriller Thriller Action Source: Netflix We Are Marshall ‘Marshall’ Scores on Sales, Rental Charts By Thomas K. Arnold he fourth quarter may not yet have officially begun, but already studios are rolling out choice releases that may be light on box office, but high on niche appeal. The top seven sellers on the national DVD sales chart for the week ended Sept. 23 are all new releases, led by a pair of theatrical sleepers: Warner Home Video’s We Are Marshall at No. 1 and Genius/The Weinstein Co.’s Death Proof at a strong No. 2. The third spot on the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert chart was claimed by 20th Century Fox’s fifth volume of “Family Guy” TV episodes, while a pair of direct-to-video features, Warner’s Superman: Doomsday and Universal Studios’ Barbie as the Island Princess, took positions four and five. Warner’s Smallville: The Complete Sixth Season debuted at No. 6 on the sales chart, while Lionsgate’s The Condemned, an action thriller that grossed $7.3 million in theaters, bowed at No. 7. T Disney’s season-three TV DVD set of “Grey’s Anatomy,” which debuted at No. 1 last week, finished at No. 8 its sophomore week in stores. In rental stores, We Are Marshall also was No. 1, with estimated rental revenue of $4.6 million, according to Home Media Magazine’s rental chart for the week. The Condemned bowed at No. 2, with $4.2 million, bumping the previous week’s top renter, Paramount/DreamWorks’ Blades of Glory, to No. 3. Death Proof, one-half of the gory Grindhouse theatrical feature, debuted at No. 4 on the rental chart its first week out, with estimated earnings of $2.9 million. On the high-definition disc charts, the long reign of Warner’s 300 atop both the Blu-ray Disc and the HD DVD charts came to an end, with a pair of hot new releases, both from Warner, storming to the top. On Blu-ray, it was the director’s cut of Troy; on the HD DVD chart, it was We Are Marshall. TOP 10 RANK TITLE I N D I E R E TAI LE R R E NTALS Week ended September 23, 2007 STREET DATE VIDEO LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 We Are Marshall The Condemned Georgia Rule Blades of Glory Perfect Stranger Delta Farce Lucky You Wild Hogs Disturbia Hot Fuzz 9/18/07 9/18/07 9/4/07 8/28/07 8/21/07 9/4/07 9/18/07 8/14/07 8/7/07 7/31/07 Warner Lionsgate Universal Paramount/DreamWorks Sony Pictures Lionsgate Warner Disney/Touchstone Paramount/DreamWorks Universal Drama Action Drama Comedy Thriller Comedy Drama Comedy Thriller Comedy Source: iDEA DataMine www.idealink.org/datamine TOP 20 DVD SELLERS Week Ended September 23, 2007 RANK THIS LAST WEEK WEEK TITLE GENRE VIDEO LABEL WEEKS ON CHART BOX OFFICE (MILLIONS) INDEX 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 New New New New New New New New 6 2 5 7 3 New New New 10 9 New 53 We Are Marshall Death Proof Family Guy Vol. 5 Superman: Doomsday Barbie as the Island Princess Smallville: The Complete Sixth Season The Condemned Grey’s Anatomy: Season Three 300 Blades of Glory Wild Hogs Heroes: Season 1 The Office: Season Three Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Third Season Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity Boston Legal: Season Three Georgia Rule Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams Troy: Director’s Cut Planet Earth: The Complete Series Drama Action Comedy Animated Animated Fantasy Action Drama Action Comedy Comedy Fantasy Comedy Sci-fi Comedy Drama Drama Animated Action Documentary Warner Genius/Weinstein Fox Warner Universal Warner Lionsgate Disney/Touchstone Warner Paramount/DreamWorks Disney/Touchstone Universal Universal Fox/MGM Image Fox Universal Disney Warner BBC Video 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 8 4 6 4 3 1 1 1 3 3 1 22 $43.5 $25.0 NTV DTV DTV NTV $7.3 NTV $210.6 $118.2 $168.2 NTV NTV NTV Cable NTV $18.9 DTV $133.4 Cable 100.00 94.32 70.72 64.55 57.11 50.13 45.37 24.35 19.16 17.81 17.49 15.74 15.70 14.35 13.06 10.79 9.33 9.15 8.55 8.47 Family Guy Vol. 5 Fox Unit volume for the top 20 DVD sellers in the week ended September 23, 2007 was 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Up 65% from the previous week. Source: Nielsen VideoScan First Alert 26 Home Media Magazine September 30–October 6, 2007 http://www.idealink.org/datamine

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