Home Media Magazine - October 21-27, 2007 - (Page 23)

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 TITLE SUBSCRIPTION RENTALS Week ended October 13, 2007 STREET DATE VIDEO LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Evan Almighty Reign Over Me Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Knocked Up Surf’s Up 28 Weeks Later Blades of Glory Next Wild Hogs Perfect Stranger 10/9/07 10/9/07 10/2/07 9/25/07 10/9/07 10/9/07 8/28/07 9/25/07 8/14/07 8/21/07 Universal Sony Pictures Fox Universal Sony Pictures Fox Para./DreamWorks Paramount Disney/Touchstone Sony Pictures Comedy Drama Action Comedy Animated Horror Comedy Thriller Comedy Thriller Source: Netflix Surf’s Up 10 ‘Surf’s Up’ Glides to No. 1 By Thomas K. Arnold TOP 10 RANK TITLE BLOCKBUSTER IN-STORE RENTALS Week ended October 14, 2007 STREET DATE VIDEO LABEL GENRE I t was Surf’s Up for home entertainment consumers the week ended Oct. 14, as Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s animated penguin comedy topped both the national DVD sales and rental charts its first week in stores. A sleeper theatrically, with a box office gross of just $58.9 million, Surf’s Up managed to outperform Universal Studios’ Evan Almighty, which generated nearly twice as much in U.S. theaters. Evan Almighty debuted at No. 2 on the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart, while bowing at No. 4 on Home Media Magazine’s video rental chart. The previous week’s top sellers, Walt Disney Studio Home Entertainment’s The Jungle Book and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, slipped to No. 3 and No. 4, respectively, on the sales chart. On the rental chart, Silver Surfer finished its second week in stores at No. 2, with a rental revenue drop off of just 23%. Silver Surfer generated an additional $7.3 million in rental revenue to bring its total take, after two weeks, to $16.8 million. Top renter Surf’s Up generated an estimated $8.1 million, while Evan Almighty made $6.4 million, just below Sony Pictures’ Reign Over Me, a drama with Adam Sandler, which bowed at No. 3. On the high-definition disc front, Evan Almighty easily captured the top spot on the HD DVD sales chart its debut week, while Silver Surfer remained atop the Blu-ray Disc charts. Both titles are available in high-def in their respective formats only. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1408 Knocked Up Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Evan Almighty 28 Weeks Later Next Surf’s Up Reign Over Me Death Proof The Condemned 10/2/07 9/25/07 10/2/07 10/9/07 10/9/07 9/25/07 10/9/07 10/9/07 9/18/07 9/18/07 Genius/Weinstein Universal Fox Universal Fox Paramount Sony Pictures Sony Pictures Genius/Weinstein Lionsgate Horror Comedy Action Comedy Horror Thriller Animated Drama Action Action Source: Blockbuster Inc. TOP 20 DVD SELLERS Week Ended October 14, 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 1 2 New 3 New 4 New 32 New 6 12 42 9 11 8 58 7 36 Surf’s Up Evan Almighty The Jungle Book: Platinum Edition Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer 28 Weeks Later Knocked Up Reign Over Me 1408 Wrong Turn 2: Dead End Happy Feet Hannah Montana: Life’s What You Make It We Are Marshall 300 The Departed Barbie as The Island Princess Family Guy Vol. Five The War: A Ken Burns Film The Holiday Next Gremlins: Special Edition Animated Comedy Animated Action Horror Comedy Drama Horror Horror Animated Family Drama Action Thriller Animated Comedy Documentary Comedy Thriller Comedy Sony Pictures Universal Disney Fox Fox Universal Sony Pictures Genius/Weinstein Fox Warner Disney Warner Warner Warner Universal Fox Paramount/PBS Sony Pictures Paramount Warner 1 1 2 2 1 3 1 3 1 6 1 4 11 6 4 4 2 14 3 3 $58.9 $100.3 Re-release $131.8 $28.6 $148.7 $19.7 $71.9 DTV $197.3 Cable $43.5 $210.6 $129.4 DTV NTV Cable $63.2 $17.99 Re-release 100.00 96.57 79.15 59.93 50.20 36.56 26.23 22.96 14.10 9.82 7.99 7.90 7.69 7.26 6.75 6.66 6.51 6.39 6.18 6.05 Evan Almighty Universal Unit volume for the top 20 DVD sellers in the week ended October 14, 2007, was 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Down 21.5% from the previous week. Source: Nielsen VideoScan First Alert Home Media Magazine October 21–27, 2007 23

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