Home Media Magazine - October 14-20, 2007 - (Page 36) NEWS TV DVD Award Nominees Are Announced Continued from page 1 www.homemediaretailing.com tion Challenge — Season 1 (Magnolia) and Survivor: Vanuatu (Paramount). I Best Variety Series: The Best of Chappelle’s Show (Paramount/Comedy Central), The Dick Cavett Show: Hollywood Greats (Shout! Factory), The Best of Hootenanny (Shout! Factory) and The Tomorrow Show: Tom Snyder’s Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show (Shout! Factory). I Best One-Season Wonder: Dane Cook: Tourgasm (HBO), The Dresden Files: Season 1 (Lionsgate), Kidnapped: The Complete Series (Sony Pictures) and That’s My Bush: The Definitive Collection (Paramount/ Comedy Central). I Best Miniseries/Made-for-TV Movie: Broken Trail (Sony Pictures), Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (HBO), The Lost Room (Lionsgate) and Roots: 30th Anniversary Edition (Warner). I Best Foreign TV Series: Beck Mongolian Chop Squad Vol. 1 (Funimation), Doctor Who: Series 2 (BBC Video), DragonBall Z: Season 1 (Funimation) and Hex (Sony Pictures). I Best TV Documentary: Diana: Last Days of a Princess (Genius Products), The Journalist and the Jihadi (HBO), Planet Earth (BBC) and When the Levees Broke (HBO). I Best Bonus Materials: Lost: Season 2, Masters of Horror: Season 1, (Starz/Anchor Bay), Rome: Season 2 (HBO) and Seinfeld: Season 8. I Best Complete-Series Set: Get Smart, M*A*S*H (Fox), Six Feet Under (HBO) and The West Wing (Warner). presented by Home Media Magazine in cooperation with TV Guide, TVShowsOnDVD.com, DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group and The Hollywood Reporter. “TV DVD has become an integral segment of home entertainment, and we want to continue to honor that impact on our industry,” said Thomas K. Arnold, Home Media Magazine publisher and editorial director. To be eligible, titles must have been released between Sept. 1, 2006, and Sept. 30, 2007. A blue-ribbon panel of judges rated each title based on the complete DVD treatment, including program content, bonus materials and packaging. More than 160 submissions were considered. Consumers can vote for their favorites from Oct. 15 through Oct. 26 at HomeMediaMagazine.com and TVShowsOnDVD.com. Consumers can vote for their favorites from Oct. 15 through Oct. 26 at HomeMediaMagazine.com and TVShowsOnDVD.com. Entertainment) and Lost: Season 2 (Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment). I Best 1990s Series: Not Just the Best of The Larry Sanders Show (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment), Picket Fences: Season 1 (Fox), The Practice Vol. 1 (Fox) and Seinfeld: Season 8 (Sony Pictures). I Best 1980s Series: Cagney & Lacey: Season 1 (Fox/MGM), Fraggle Rock: Season 3 (Fox/HIT Entertainment), The Greatest American Hero: The Complete Series (Starz Home Entertainment/Anchor Bay) and St. Elsewhere: Season 1 (Fox). I Best 1970s Series: The Muppet Show: Season 2 (Disney); The Odd Couple: The nominees include: Season 1 (Time Life/Paramount I Best 2000s Series: 24: Season 5 (20th Home Entertainment), Saturday Century Fox Home Entertainment), Night Live: Season 1 (Universal) and Deadwood: Season 3 (HBO), Heroes: Welcome Back Kotter: Season 1 (WarnSeason 1 (Universal Studios Home er Home Video). I Best 1960s Series: The Addams Family Vol. 1 (Fox/MGM), The Archie Show: The Complete Series (Genius Products), Get Smart: The Complete Collection (Time Life/HBO) and McHale’s Navy: Season 1 (Shout! Factory). I Best 1950s Series: The Best of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (Shout! Factory), Adventures of Superman: Seasons 5 & 6 (Warner), Gunsmoke: Season 1 (Paramount) and Best of The Johnny Carson Show (Shout! Factory). I Best Animated Series: Dungeons & Dragons: The Complete Series (BCI), Family Guy Vol. 5 (Fox), The Simpsons: Season 10 (Fox) and South Park: Season 10 (Paramount/Comedy Central). I Best Children’s Series: The Best of Clifford the Big Red Dog (Lionsgate), Dinosaurs: Seasons 3 & 4 (Disney), The Muppet Show: Season 2 and That’s So Suite Life of Hannah Montana: Mixed Up, Mashed Up Edition (Disney). I Best Reality Series: The Girls Next Door: Season 2 (Fox), Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List — Season 1 (Universal), MXC: Most Extreme Elimina- Kids First! Awards Ranny Levy (L), president of Kids First!, presented the Best Emerging Actor award to Zach Mills, star Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, at the Oct. 7 Kids First! Best Awards in Malibu, Calif. Third Quarter Slate Helped DVD Sales Gain Momentum After Slow Start Continued from page 1 of 2006. Combined, home entertainment spending by consumers on DVD purchases and rentals is off a modest 3.8% from last year. Mike Dunn, worldwide president of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, said the dwindling disparity between consumer DVD spending in 2006 and 2007 is an encouraging sign that consumers are still keen on packaged media. He said strong sales and rental activity directly correlates to the strength of titles in the market. Based on the wealth of high-profile theatricals coming to market in the remaining three months of the year, Dunn said, the home entertainment business could be in for a most welcome upturn. “This past quarter’s strong performance closed the gap even further,” Dunn said. “And given the strength of the current quarter, we are confident the industry will finish the year in positive territory.” Indeed, the third-quarter lift is due largely to studios pumping out marquee titles earlier in the year to avoid a traffic jam of hits in the fourth quar- ter. Warner Home Video released 300 in late July and found buyers more than happy to snap up the DVD as well as the next-generation Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD versions. The actioner, in fact, set a record in high-definition disc sales, selling more than 250,000 copies its first week in stores. Universal Studios Home Entertainment, too, released two major titles: season one of the hot TV series “Heroes” and the surprise box office hit Knocked Up, in August and September, respectively, instead of waiting for the fourth quarter. “Universal’s biggest third-quarter DVD successes came in the form of TV DVD titles,” noted Craig Kornblau, president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment. “Heroes,” he said, remains the top-selling TV DVD release to date for the year. Universal also got an early start on the fourth quarter with the late-September release of Knocked Up, which sold 3.5 million DVDs its first week in stores. The momentum should continue, he said. “The industry is on track to benefit from one of the biggest fourth quarters in recent years,” he said. NINE-MONTH DVD RELEASE COMPARISONS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY: 2006 AND 2007* A preliminary snapshot of new-to-DVD release activity for the first nine months of this year shows that nothing much has changed since earlier this year. The overall release pace continues to be off about the same as it was in June, July and August. It’s off 16.3% for the first nine months of 2007 (8,419 new releases), versus the same period in 2006 (10,062). The other trend that remains constant is that more than 80% of the decline continues to be centered in just two categories: special interest and music. For the first nine months of 2007, these two product groups combined for 83.3% of the shortfall in new-to-DVD releases. The good news is theatrical catalog, directto-DVD features and new theatrical releases are all right about where they were at this time last year. — Ralph Tribbey DVD Product Category Music, Opera and Stage Performances Special Interest Anime TV Movies Children’s Programming, Non-Feature TV Series Programming (single disc) All Other Categories TV Series Programming: Multidisc Sets New Theatrical (1997-current) Foreign-Language Feature Films Theatrical Catalog (pre-1997) Direct-to-Video Feature Films Adult-Themed, Non-Feature Ninth Month New-to-DVD Comparisons 1,516 3,006 477 235 453 192 356 473 463 939 894 799 199 10,062 1,031 2,183 375 202 396 169 321 428 445 910 906 824 229 8,419 +/(485) (883) (102) (33) (57) (23) (35) (45) (18) (29) 12 25 30 (1,643) %+/-32.0% -28.8% -21.4% -14.0% -12.6% -12.0% -9.8% -9.5% -3.9% -3.1% 1.3% 3.1% 15.1% -16.3% * Nine-month comparisons include DVD titles released and subsequently discontinued. I THIS WEEK’S RELEASE ACTIVITY FOR DVD Titles in Release Through Week Ended Oct. 5, 2007. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total Net DVD Titles Announced and/or In Release Through March 31, 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77,531+344 78,236+257 I THIS WEEK’S RELEASE ACTIVITY FOR BLU-RAY As of Week Ended Oct. 5 . . . . . . Released I THIS WEEK’S RELEASE ACTIVITY FOR HD DVD Scheduled As of Week Ended Oct. 5 . . . . . Released 306 Scheduled 41 HOME MEDIA MAGAZINE (ISSN 1934-9882) is published 51 times per year (weekly except 3 issues in December) by Questex Media Group, Inc., 306 West Michigan Street, Suite 200, Duluth, MN 55802. Subscription rates: $49.99 for one year in the United States and Possessions; $79.99 for one year in Canada and Mexico; all other countries $99.99 for one year (by surface mail). Add $75 annually for air-expedited service. 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