Home Media Magazine - December 7-13, 2008 - (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 STREET TITLE I N - S TO RE RE N TA L S Week ended November 30, 2008 VIDEO DATE LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Hancock Hancock Tropic Thunder Fred Claus Get Smart Wall-E Hellboy II: The Golden Army Kung Fu Panda Meet Dave Space Chimps The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 11/25/08 Sony Pictures 11/25/08 Warner 11/4/08 Warner 11/18/08 Disney 11/11/08 Universal 11/9/08 11/25/08 Fox 11/25/08 Fox 11/18/08 Warner Action Comedy Comedy Animated Fantasy Comedy Animated Comedy Source: Blockbuster Inc. 11/18/08 Paramount/DreamWorks Comedy Paramount/DreamWorks Animated 9 10 ‘Hancock’ Super on Shelves By Thomas K. Arnold he pre-Christmas parade of theatrical blockbusters continues, with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s $228 million-grossing Hancock storming to the top of the home video charts its first week in stores. Hancock debuted at No. 1 on all three charts the week ended Nov. 30: the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart, Home Media Magazine’s video rental chart, and Nielsen’s Blu-ray Disc chart. On the overall home video sales chart, Hancock bumped the previous week’s top seller, Walt Disney Studios’ Wall-E, to No. 2. The animated comedy — with a $223.5 box office pedigree — remained in high sales demand, though, selling 63.5% as many copies its sophomore week as Hancock in week one. Paramount/DreamWorks’ Kung Fu Panda, T released a month ago, also continued to rack up steady sales, remaining at No. 3 for the second consecutive week. Aside from Hancock, only one other new release made it into the top 10: Warner’s Fred Claus, a seasonal comedy that earned $72 million in theaters last year, debuted at No. 7. In rental stores, Hancock was the clear winner, although the previous week’s top renter, Paramount’s Tropic Thunder, racked up more than 70% as much rental action to finish the week at No. 2. Fred Claus debuted at No. 4. On the Blu-ray Disc chart, Black Friday discounts of players led to stronger-than-expected sales of some of the season’s marquee titles. Hancock was the week’s top seller, but the No. 2 title was Paramount’s Transformers, which has been out for 14 weeks. TOP 10 RANK STREET TITLE I N DI E RE TA I L E R RE N TA L S Week ended November 30, 2008 VIDEO DATE LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Hancock Tropic Thunder Fred Claus Wall-E Get Smart Kung Fu Panda Meet Dave Hellboy II: The Golden Army Space Chimps Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the … 11/25/08 Sony Pictures 11/25/08 Warner 11/18/08 Disney 11/4/08 11/9/08 Warner Action Comedy Animated Comedy Comedy Fantasy Animated Adventure Source: iDEA DataMine 11/18/08 Paramount/DreamWorks Comedy Paramount/DreamWorks Animated 11/25/08 Fox 11/11/08 Universal 11/25/08 Fox 10/14/08 Paramount www.idealink.org/datamine TOP 20 SELLERS Week Ended November 30, 2008 RANK THIS LAST WEEK WEEK TITLE GENRE VIDEO LABEL WEEKS ON CHART BOX OFFICE (MILLIONS) INDEX* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Fred Claus Warner New 1 3 23 19 2 New 15 37 6 10 New 34 New New New 80 New New New Hancock Wall-E Kung Fu Panda Sex and the City: The Movie Sleeping Beauty: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition Tropic Thunder Fred Claus The Incredible Hulk Transformers Iron Man Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull House: Season Three I Am Legend Superbad The Office: Season Three House: Season Two Bee Movie The Office: Season Two The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning Across the Universe † Action Animated Animated Comedy Animated Comedy Comedy Action Sci-Fi Action Adventure Drama Sci-Fi Comedy Comedy Drama Animated Comedy Animated Musical Sony Pictures Disney Paramount/DreamWorks Warner Disney Paramount/DreamWorks Warner Universal Paramount Paramount Universal Warner Sony Pictures Universal Universal Paramount/DreamWorks Universal Disney Sony Pictures 1 2 4 10 8 2 1 6 9 8 1† 16 1† 1 † $227.95 $223.45 $215.43 $152.65 Re-release $110.46 $72.01 $134.53 $316.48 $318.31 $317.02 NTV $256.24 $121.46 NTV NTV $126.63 NTV DTV $22.40 100.00 63.50 39.36 31.49 24.21 23.64 21.78 20.66 20.26 17.06 16.41 14.85 14.40 13.80 13.65 11.85 11.49 10.81 10.74 10.62 8 9 10 11 Paramount/DreamWorks 20 Unit volume for the top 20 DVD sellers in the week ended November 30, 2008, was 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1† 9 1† 1 † Up 31.2% from the previous week. 1† *Units sold compared to No. 1 title Re-entered the charts Source: Nielsen VideoScan First Alert 22 Home Media Magazine December 7–13, 2008 http://www.idealink.org/datamine
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