Home Media Magazine - September 28 - October 4, 2008 - (Page 40) 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 September 21, 2008 VIDEO DATE LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Made of Honor Made of Honor The Love Guru Baby Mama 88 Minutes Speed Racer The Forbidden Kingdom What Happens in Vegas Street Kings Another Cinderella Story Snow Angels 9/16/08 9/16/08 9/9/08 9/16/08 9/16/08 9/9/08 8/26/08 8/19/08 9/16/08 9/16/08 Sony Pictures Paramount Universal Sony Pictures Warner Lionsgate Fox Fox Warner Warner Comedy Comedy Comedy Thriller Action Action Comedy Thriller Romance Drama Source: Blockbuster Inc. 10 ‘Made of Honor’ Takes Top Spot By Thomas K. Arnold wo films that grossed about the same at the box office battled it out for the top spot on the national video sales chart last week, and the one with the significantly lower production budget won. Made of Honor, a Sony Pictures Home Entertainment comedy that earned $46 million in theaters, bowed at No. 1 on the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart, while Warner’s Speed Racer, which made $43.9 million, sputtered to a No. 2 debut. Speed Racer cost an estimated $120 million to make, three times as much as Made of Honor. Made of Honor also topped Home Media Magazine’s national video rental chart for the TOP 10 RANK STREET TITLE I N DI E RE TA I L E R RE N TA L S Week ended September 21, 2008 VIDEO DATE LABEL GENRE T week ended Sept. 21, generating about 15% more rental activity than Speed Racer. Speed Racer did top the First Alert Blu-ray Disc sales chart for the week ended Sept. 21, with Paramount’s Transformers holding fast at No. 2 and the previous week’s top BD seller, Lionsgate’s The Forbidden Kingdom, slipping to No. 4. Turning in a surprisingly strong first-week performance was Sony Pictures’ 88 Minutes, an Al Pacino crime drama that grossed just $16.9 million in U.S. theaters. The film debuted at No. 3 on the sales chart and No. 4 on the rental chart. 88 Minutes also debuted at No. 3 on the Blu-ray Disc sales chart, selling nearly 80% as many copies as second-ranked Transformers during the week. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Baby Mama The Love Guru The Forbidden Kingdom Made of Honor 88 Minutes What Happens in Vegas Speed Racer Street Kings Finding Amanda Bait Shop 9/9/08 9/16/08 9/9/08 9/16/08 9/16/08 8/26/08 9/16/08 8/19/08 9/16/08 9/2/08 Universal Paramount Lionsgate Sony Pictures Sony Pictures Fox Warner Fox Magnolia Lionsgate Comedy Comedy Action Comedy Thriller Comedy Action Thriller Comedy Comedy Source: iDEA DataMine www.idealink.org/datamine TOP 20 SELLERS Week Ended September 21, 2008 RANK THIS LAST WEEK WEEK TITLE GENRE VIDEO LABEL WEEKS ON CHART BOX OFFICE (MILLIONS) INDEX 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Speed Racer Warner New New New 1 2 New 3 6 7 New 9 10 11 4 New 5 20 12 New New Made of Honor Speed Racer 88 Minutes Baby Mama The Forbidden Kingdom The Love Guru Barbie & The Diamond Castle The Office: Season Four The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning Pushing Daisies: The Complete First Season What Happens in Vegas Transformers Heroes: Season 2 Grey’s Anatomy: Season Four Another Cinderella Story Smallville: The Complete Seventh Season Dexter: The Second Season The Nightmare Before Christmas Chuck: The Complete First Season Dragon Ball Z: Season Six Comedy Action Thriller Comedy Action Comedy Animated Comedy Animated Comedy Comedy Sci-Fi Fantasy Drama Romance Fantasy Thriller Animated Comedy Anime Sony Pictures Warner Sony Pictures Universal Lionsgate Paramount Universal Universal Disney Warner Fox Universal Disney Warner Warner Paramount Disney Warner Funimation 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 3 4 1 4 4 2 1 2 5 4 1 1 $46.01 $43.95 $16.93 $60.32 $52.08 $32.20 DTV NTV DTV NTV $80.25 $316.48 NTV NTV DTV NTV Cable Re-Release NTV Cable 100.00 91.71 51.54 40.18 39.59 36.25 26.58 22.61 18.05 17.76 16.53 15.31 15.12 15.05 14.57 13.39 12.61 12.08 11.07 10.82 8 9 10 11 Unit volume for the top 20 DVD sellers in the week ended September 21, 2008, was 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Paramount/DreamWorks 10 Down 10.8% from the previous week. Source: Nielsen VideoScan First Alert 40 Home Media Magazine September 28–October 4, 2008 http://www.idealink.org/datamine
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