Home Media Magazine - May 25 - 31, 2008 - (Page 36)

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 18, 2008 VIDEO DATE LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Untraceable Mad Money Untraceable The Great Debaters P.S. I Love You 27 Dresses First Sunday Juno Cloverfield The Golden Compass Charlie Wilson’s War 5/13/08 5/13/08 5/13/08 5/6/08 4/29/08 5/6/08 4/15/08 4/22/08 4/29/08 4/22/08 Anchor Bay Sony Pictures Genius/Weinstein Warner Fox Sony Pictures Fox Paramount New Line Universal Comedy Thriller Drama Romance Comedy Comedy Comedy Sci-Fi Fantasy Drama Source: Blockbuster Inc. Crime Pays on Disc Charts By Thomas K. Arnold rime certainly did pay on the video charts last week. Untraceable, a crime thriller from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, topped the national DVD sales chart its first week in stores, while Anchor Bay Entertainment’s Mad Money, a comedy about three women who decide to rob the Federal Reserve Bank, was the No. 1 renter for the week ended May 18. Untraceable, which grossed $28.7 million at the box office, narrowly topped the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart for the week, with The Great Debaters, a drama from Genius Products, at No. 2. Excitement over the new “Indiana Jones” movie put all three previous films in the franchise into the First Alert top 20, both 10 C individually and as part of the Indiana Jones: The Adventure Collection boxed set, which settled in at No. 3, just ahead of Mad Money, at No. 4. In rental stores, Mad Money generated an estimated $7.3 million in revenue to take the top slot on Home Media Magazine’s video rental chart for the week. Untraceable bowed at No. 2, with earnings estimated at $6.9 million. Warner’s P.S. I Love You, the previous week’s top renter, slipped to No. 3, with $5.9 million, while The Great Debaters debuted at No. 4 with $5.5 million. Walt Disney Studios’ The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was the week’s top Blu-ray Disc seller, most likely because of the theatrical opening of the fantasy’s sequel. Untraceable debuted at No. 2. TOP 10 RANK STREET TITLE I N DI E RE TA I L E R RE N TA L S Week ended May 18, 2008 VIDEO DATE LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Mad Money 27 Dresses Untraceable P.S. I Love You Juno Cloverfield The Golden Compass Charlie Wilson’s War Over Her Dead Body The Great Debaters 5/13/08 4/29/08 5/13/08 5/6/08 4/15/08 4/22/08 4/29/08 4/22/08 5/6/08 5/13/08 Anchor Bay Fox Sony Pictures Warner Fox Paramount New Line Universal New Line Genius/Weinstein Comedy Comedy Thriller Romance Comedy Sci-Fi Fantasy Drama Comedy Drama Source: iDEA DataMine www.idealink.org/datamine TOP 20 DVD SELLERS Week Ended May 18, 2008 RANK THIS LAST WEEK WEEK TITLE GENRE VIDEO LABEL WEEKS ON CHART BOX OFFICE (MILLIONS) INDEX 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Paramount New New New New 1 2 New New 6 5 New 3 4 25 10 11 7 New 9 14 Untraceable The Great Debaters Indiana Jones: The Adventure Collection Mad Money P.S. I Love You 27 Dresses Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Alvin and the Chipmunks Juno Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom First Sunday The Golden Compass The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Enchanted I Am Legend Cloverfield Two and a Half Men: The Complete Third Season Charlie Wilson’s War Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem Thriller Drama Adventure Comedy Romance Comedy Adventure Adventure Family Comedy Adventure Comedy Fantasy Fantasy Fantasy Sci-Fi Sci-Fi Comedy Drama Sci-Fi Sony Pictures Genius/Weinstein Paramount Anchor Bay Warner Fox Paramount Paramount Fox Fox Paramount Sony Pictures New Line Disney Disney Warner Paramount Warner Universal Fox 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 7 5 1 2 3 4 9 9 4 1 4 5 $28.69 $30.23 Re-release $20.67 $53.70 $76.73 Re-release Re-release $216.50 $142.02 Re-release $37.93 $70.11 $291.70 $127.81 $256.24 $80.05 NTV $66.66 $41.80 100.00 92.92 92.63 85.34 66.62 65.99 63.65 44.13 43.62 43.51 40.17 35.49 33.72 22.33 20.19 17.56 17.52 17.46 13.37 11.28 8 9 10 11 Unit volume for the top 20 DVD sellers in the week ended May 18, 2008, was 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Up 11.7% from the previous week. Source: Nielsen VideoScan First Alert 36 Home Media Magazine May 25–31, 2008 http://www.idealink.org/datamine

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