Home Media Magazine - November 4-10, 2007 - (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 TITLE BLOCKBUSTER IN-STORE RENTALS Week ended October 28, 2007 STREET DATE VIDEO LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Mr. Brooks Transformers Evan Almighty Meet the Robinsons 1408 Hostel: Part II Knocked Up Reign Over Me Surf’s Up Planet Terror 10/23/07 10/16/07 10/9/07 10/23/07 10/2/07 10/23/07 9/25/07 10/9/07 10/9/07 10/16/07 Fox/MGM Paramount/DreamWorks Universal Disney Genius/Weinstein Sony Pictures Universal Sony Pictures Sony Pictures Genius/Weinstein Thriller Sci-Fi Comedy Animated Horror Horror Comedy Drama Animated Action Source: Blockbuster Inc. Transformers Robots No. 1 Again By Thomas K. Arnold obots rule — again. Showing remarkable staying power, Paramount Home Entertainment’s DVD release of DreamWorks’ Transformers remained at the top of both the national sales and rental charts for a second consecutive week. On the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert chart for the week ended Oct. 28, Transformers beat back a strong challenge from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment’s Meet the Robinsons, which debuted at No. 2. Two other new releases finished third and fourth for the week, respectively: MGM’s Mr. Brooks, distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s Hostel: Part II. Disney’s The Jungle Book remained at No. 5. HBO Video’s The Sopranos : Season 6, R Part 2, the final installment in the mob drama’s hugely successful initial DVD run, bowed at No. 8. On Home Media Magazine’s rental chart, Transformers posted a revenue drop of just 14% from the previous week to remain at No. 1, with $8.6 million in revenue. Mr. Brooks bowed at No. 2, with rental earnings of $7.4 million, while Meet the Robinsons came in at No. 3, with $6.5 million. A trio of new releases topped the Blu-ray Disc sales chart for the week, led by Meet the Robinsons at No. 1 and continuing with Mr. Brooks at No. 2 and Hostel: Part II at No. 3. On the HD DVD sales chart, Transformers remained at No. 1 for the second consecutive week, while Universal Studios’ season-one set of the TV show “Heroes” was No. 2 after two months in the market. TOP 10 RANK TITLE I N DI E RE TA I L E R RE N TA L S Week ended October 28, 2007 STREET DATE VIDEO LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Transformers Evan Almighty Meet the Robinsons Knocked Up Hostel: Part II The Reaping The Invisible Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer 1408 Reign Over Me 10/16/07 10/9/07 10/23/07 9/25/07 10/23/07 10/16/07 10/16/07 10/2/07 10/2/07 10/9/07 Paramount/DreamWorks Universal Disney Universal Sony Pictures Warner Disney/Hollywood Fox Genius/Weinstein Sony Pictures Sci-Fi Comedy Animated Comedy Horror Horror Thriller Action Horror Drama www.idealink.org/datamine Source: iDEA DataMine TOP 20 DVD SELLERS Week Ended October 28, 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 1 New New New 5 3 7 New New 2 6 8 4 35 50 10 12 61 15 9 Transformers Meet the Robinsons Mr. Brooks Hostel: Part II The Jungle Book: Platinum Edition Surf’s Up Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer The Sopranos: Season 6, Part 2 Home of the Brave Planet Terror Evan Almighty Knocked Up The Reaping Saw III Halloween: 25th Anniversary Edition The Invisible 1408 Saw II 300 28 Weeks Later Sci-Fi Animated Thriller Horror Animated Animated Action Drama Drama Action Comedy Comedy Horror Horror Horror Thriller Horror Horror Action Horror Paramount/DreamWorks Disney Fox/MGM Sony Pictures Disney Sony Pictures Fox HBO Fox Genius/Weinstein Universal Universal Warner Lionsgate Starz/Anchor Bay Disney/Hollywood Genius/Weinstein Lionsgate Warner Fox 2 1 1 1 4 3 4 1 1 3 3 5 2 4 4 2 5 2 13 3 $316.48 $97.82 $28.48 $17.55 Re-release $58.87 $131.83 Cable $0.04 $25.03 $100.29 $148.73 $25.12 $80.24 Re-release $20.57 $71.91 $87.03 $210.59 $28.64 100.00 70.74 23.20 15.15 11.30 9.10 8.75 8.62 8.60 8.27 8.17 7.32 5.74 5.55 4.57 3.96 3.73 3.71 3.68 3.60 Mr. Brooks Fox/MGM Unit volume for the top 20 DVD sellers in the week ended October 28, 2007, was 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Down 48.7% from the previous week. Source: Nielsen VideoScan First Alert 22 Home Media Magazine November 4–10, 2007 http://www.idealink.org/datamine

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