How HV sales used to turn big box office hits into massive box office GIANTS

[terrestrial]

United States Combined DVD and Blu-ray Sales Chart for Week Ending February 22, 2015

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Chart Index

Rank	Title	Units this Week	Total Units	Spending this Week	Total Spending	Weeks
1	Game of Thrones: The Complete Fourth Season	526,851	526,851	$17,219,744	$17,219,744	1	Buy
2	Dumb and Dumber To	422,090	422,090	$7,914,398	$7,914,398	3	Buy
3	The Interview	389,515	389,515	$4,451,671	$4,451,671	9	Buy
4	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	220,720	220,720	$3,953,425	$3,953,425	3	Buy
5	St. Vincent	166,681	166,681	$2,871,878	$2,871,878	1	Buy
6	The Theory of Everything	106,418	106,418	$2,069,562	$2,069,562	2	Buy
7	John Wick	96,069	827,313	$1,647,286	$14,679,239	3	Buy
8	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	93,641	568,155	$1,815,649	$10,062,385	2	Buy
9	Dracula Untold	82,464	796,865	$1,655,766	$15,073,417	3	Buy
10	The Homesman	79,280	79,280	$1,064,375	$1,064,375	3	Buy
11	101 Dalmatians	78,664	5,025,104	$1,811,332	$111,580,269	798	Buy
12	Dying of the Light	68,475	68,475	$873,936	$873,936	1	Buy
13	Fury	68,385	1,167,916	$984,664	$21,675,214	4	Buy
14	The Book of Life	67,552	735,857	$1,422,218	$12,769,737	4	Buy
15	The Best of Me	56,145	541,230	$942,265	$8,696,754	3	Buy
16	Lucy	53,178	1,288,770	$1,033,769	$24,095,483	5	Buy
17	Frozen	46,734	18,771,977	$955,934	$348,619,824	49	Buy
18	Addicted	44,992	187,738	$582,646	$2,432,635	4	Buy
19	Guardians of the Galaxy	42,000	6,469,481	$828,613	$118,198,667	11	Buy
20	Nightcrawler	40,776	184,047	$768,669	$3,513,504	4	Buy
21	The Boxtrolls	40,538	678,203	$1,020,889	$16,671,439	5	Buy
22	Gone Girl	40,220	1,404,148	$692,702	$23,160,311	6	Buy
23	LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Justice League vs Bizarro League	39,205	155,189	$598,877	$2,319,423	2	Buy
24	Ouija	32,594	207,765	$621,242	$4,047,586	3	Buy
25	Divergent	28,630	3,158,606	$391,426	$54,540,339	29	Buy
26	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	28,426	28,426	$599,845	$599,845	1	Buy
27	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	25,433	6,464,654	$265,061	$114,037,391	51	Buy
28	Despicable Me 2	24,736	12,870,289	$281,187	$226,266,047	63	Buy
29	Annabelle	24,377	315,063	$364,924	$4,715,855	5	Buy
30	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2	24,004	5,597,037	$182,322	$74,755,727	104	Buy

 

[TServo2049]

Why do somewhat older titles (like, 2-3 years) sometimes seem to randomly show up at the bottom of the list? The Fox titles like Taken 2 and Life of Pi and Walter Mitty and Walking with Dinosaurs a few weeks ago, the Despicable Me films the last couple weeks, Breaking Dawn Pt 2 this past week? Discounts? Rebates? (Possibly rebates on tickets for an upcoming release? Like, is Lionsgate including a couple dollars off tickets to Insurgent on purchases of the Twilight films?)

Edited March 8, 2015 by TServo2049

[terrestrial]

That I am also wondering about.

I checked at amazon.com / US for you, I coulxnt find a new release, so my guess is a bargain campain too.

 

A few weeks back one title was part of a newer 'title combination box', but sold seemingly enough solo titles also that not the combination box but the solo title appeard on the list. 

 

If you find out something more, please let me know too, I am very interested in such details

[baumer]

Frozen....man oh man.

[terrestrial]

Frozen....man oh man.

 

We could start bets when it will be a milestone number...

(not seriously meant, I am guessing a few at the Frozen board might even do something like that)

[bapi]

Frozen is the best-selling blu-ray of all-time (in USA). Wow.

[baumer]

Frozen is the best-selling blu-ray of all-time (in USA). Wow.

 

My niece, who is now 4, 100% obsessed with the movie.  My brother and I took her to see it when it first came out.  When she left the theater, she was singing "Let it Go."  I remember asking my brother on the way home, what he thought of the movie and he and I both agreed it was probably the best "Disney" movie we'd seen since Lady and the Tramp ( a film we both really enjoyed as kids).  She now obviously owns the BR and has probably seen it 100 times.  She knows the movie the way I know JAWS.  For Christmas, all I had to do was get her anything with Olaf, Elsa or the other chick on it and this made me the best uncle in the world.

 

Frozen is truly something special.

[MrPink]

The Interview did surprisingly well for a movie that's available on Netflix

[seduh]

Frozen still selling good. it will reach 20 million copies by the end of this year

[AndyLL]

 

 

Frozen is truly something special.

 

I thought it might be the one animation to make your list

[baumer]

I thought it might be the one animation to make your list

 

All time best films?  

 

Nope.  It wasn't even the best of 2013.  I think i had it ranked 7th.

[BadAtGender]

All time best films?  

 

Nope.  It wasn't even the best of 2013.  I think i had it ranked 7th.

 

All time best is a personal thing.

 

Frozen is at or near number one for me, but there are reasons for that. I don't expect other people to feel the same way about it.

[Bob Violence]

The Interview did surprisingly well for a movie that's available on Netflix

 

"Dumb" comedies usually do reasonably well on video (see also: this week's #2), but I think The Interview was helped a lot by pricing. The BD retails for $20 and is readily available for less than $15. The DVD is similarly cheap relative to the norm. Some Wal-Marts had the Blu in-store for $10 and the DVD for $8. That puts it in impulse-buy category for a lot of people and is unusually cheap for a non-catalog studio title. For comparison, Sony normally has a $35 MSRP for non-catalog BDs (more if it's a DVD combo pack), and only rarely will they be available for less than $20 the week of release.

Edited March 9, 2015 by Bob Violence

[jimisawesome]

Why do somewhat older titles (like, 2-3 years) sometimes seem to randomly show up at the bottom of the list? The Fox titles like Taken 2 and Life of Pi and Walter Mitty and Walking with Dinosaurs a few weeks ago, the Despicable Me films the last couple weeks, Breaking Dawn Pt 2 this past week? Discounts? Rebates? (Possibly rebates on tickets for an upcoming release? Like, is Lionsgate including a couple dollars off tickets to Insurgent on purchases of the Twilight films?)

 

Best Buy had them on sale which means Amazon will also follow suit. 

[terrestrial]

Deadline started an article series about real Net profits, including foreign details

 

They started with X-Men Days of Future Past

 

Their charts seems not to be 'saveable', to me a bit strange, I do not know the website they stored the details list (issuu)

 

http://issuu.com/pmcderek/docs/mm_xmen_de78e8f1baf10c/1?e=5873864/11787372

 

article:

http://deadline.com/2015/03/x-men-days-of-future-past-profit-box-office-2014-1201389620/

[terrestrial]

Edited March 11, 2015 by terrestrial

[kowhite]

Huh, it looks like someone actually has a decent idea of what a movie P&L looks like.

Damn 100 in participations. Singer and Jackman (and Marvel) gettin PAID.

[terrestrial]

Hey, wasn't TMNT a favorite of you (baumer?)

 

The next chart is up

 

[fastclock]

would be nice to have all the movies side-by-side in a spreadsheet.

 

Last year, Deadline missed badly by saying that Despicable Me 2 was more profitable than Frozen. Of course, they did not know that Frozen would get another 200+ million from Japan and a billion from merchandising.

 

Despicable Me franchise is definitely going to be a very profitable venture for Universal in the coming years. 

[terrestrial]

would be nice to have all the movies side-by-side in a spreadsheet.

 

Last year, Deadline missed badly by saying that Despicable Me 2 was more profitable than Frozen. Of course, they did not know that Frozen would get another 200+ million from Japan and a billion from merchandising.

 

Despicable Me franchise is definitely going to be a very profitable venture for Universal in the coming years. 

 

I'm already filling in an .xls file. I think they plan a bit of an overview when they are finished. Something like that was in the first article, havent even read the next one due to the excel

 

The merchandise detail is a bit more complex I guess.

E.g. Frozen:

Disney gets the money, but not the Disney Movie Studio = the movies. They get only percentages out of the most of the merchandise.

Depends a lot on the details of the contracts.

Really curious to see e.g. MCU,... details.

 

I think Disney (and other studios with parks) is also difficult to calculate, as the movies are a bit of support also for Disneyland... Disney World (not sure how they are called in your region)

Disneyland also supported e.g. GotG via a ~ 5min special clip in a ~ cinema there, usually used for something else. For a long time...

So who gets the percentages? Disneyland for showing it? GotG for the merchandise, Disneyland sales there?

And many other little details