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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 May 25, 2008 VIDEO DATE LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 National Treasure: Book of Secrets National Treasure: Book of Secrets Mad Money Untraceable The Flock The Great Debaters 27 Dresses P.S. I Love You Strange Wilderness Juno Cloverfield 5/20/08 5/13/08 5/13/08 5/20/08 5/13/08 4/29/08 5/6/08 5/20/08 4/15/08 4/22/08 Disney Anchor Bay Sony Pictures Genius/Weinstein Genius/Weinstein Fox Warner Paramount Fox Paramount Adventure Comedy Thriller Thriller Drama Comedy Romance Comedy Comedy Sci-Fi Source: Blockbuster Inc. 9 10 Adventure Dominates the Charts By Thomas K. Arnold dventure ruled the DVD charts, as consumers eagerly snatched up five movies in the “National Treasure” and “Indiana Jones” franchises. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment’s National Treasure: Book of Secrets stormed to the top of the national home video sales and rental charts its first week in stores. The big-budget sequel, which grossed $219.7 million in theaters, debuted at No. 1 on both the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart and Home Media Magazine’s video rental chart for the week ended May 25. Book of Secrets also was the top-selling Blu-ray Disc release of the week, while the original National Treasure was the week’s No. 2 Blu-ray seller. A two-pack of both films bowed at No. 3. On the First Alert sales chart, Book of Secrets was A followed by three “Indiana Jones” movies from Paramount, drafting off the theatrical opening of installment No. 4. Raiders of the Lost Ark was the week’s No. 2 seller, followed at No. 3 by Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and at No. 4 by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. No. 5 on the top-sellers chart was the original National Treasure. In rental stores, Book of Secrets took in an estimated $8.7 million, pushing last week’s top renter, Anchor Bay’s Mad Money, to No. 2, with $6.1 million. The week’s only other theatrical new release, the Paramount comedy Strange Wilderness ($6.6 million box office), debuted at No. 4 on the rental chart, with estimated earnings of $5.1 million, or 77% of its theatrical gross. On the sales chart Strange Wilderness bowed at No. 16. TOP 10 RANK STREET TITLE I N DI E RE TA I L E R RE N TA L S Week ended May 25, 2008 VIDEO DATE LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 National Treasure: Book of Secrets Mad Money 27 Dresses Strange Wilderness Untraceable P.S. I Love You Juno Charlie Wilson’s War The Golden Compass Cloverfield 5/20/08 5/13/08 4/29/08 5/20/08 5/13/08 5/6/08 4/15/08 4/22/08 4/29/08 4/22/08 Disney Anchor Bay Fox Paramount Sony Pictures Warner Fox Universal New Line Paramount Adventure Comedy Comedy Comedy Thriller Romance Comedy Drama Fantasy Sci-Fi Source: iDEA DataMine www.idealink.org/datamine TOP 20 DVD SELLERS Week Ended May 25, 2008 RANK THIS LAST WEEK WEEK TITLE GENRE VIDEO LABEL WEEKS ON CHART BOX OFFICE (MILLIONS) INDEX 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Diary of the Dead Genius/Weinstein New 7 8 11 42 3 6 14 1 4 5 New 10 2 9 New 13 New 17 New National Treasure: Book of Secrets Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom National Treasure Indiana Jones: The Adventure Collection 27 Dresses The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Untraceable Mad Money P.S. I Love You Diary of the Dead Juno The Great Debaters Alvin and the Chipmunks Strange Wilderness The Golden Compass Wrestlemania XXIV Cloverfield The Muppet Show: Season Three Adventure Adventure Adventure Adventure Adventure Adventure Comedy Fantasy Thriller Comedy Romance Horror Comedy Drama Family Comedy Fantasy Sports Sci-Fi Comedy Disney Paramount Paramount Paramount Disney Paramount Fox Disney Sony Pictures Anchor Bay Warner Genius/Weinstein Fox Genius/Weinstein Fox Paramount New Line Genius/WWE Paramount Disney 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 5 2 2 3 1 6 2 8 1 4 1 5 1 $219.74 Re-release Re-release Re-release $173.00 Re-release $76.73 $291.70 $28.69 $20.67 $53.70 $0.96 $142.02 $30.23 $216.50 $6.58 $70.11 DTV $80.05 NTV 100.00 12.24 9.97 9.51 7.65 7.17 4.74 4.35 3.99 3.81 3.79 3.76 3.70 3.46 3.42 3.12 2.73 2.31 1.86 1.82 8 9 10 11 Unit volume for the top 20 DVD sellers in the week ended May 25, 2008, was 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Up 69.3% from the previous week. Source: Nielsen VideoScan First Alert 22 Home Media Magazine June 1–7, 2008 http://www.idealink.org/datamine

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