DVD sales thread 2012

[fmpro]

That is an amazing opening for Thrones.. WOW

[SchumacherFTW]

Woo for Immortals! But how come we got it in the UK 2 weeks ago??

[tilko]

Immortals sequel is almost certain.

[tilko]

'Happy Feet Two' Dances Way to Top Sales Spot

The approach of Spring Break continues to find studios stepping up their release schedules of high-profile titles, as Hollywood home video marketers take aim at out-of-school kids and their Easter gift-giving parents.

Three new releases landed in the top three slots on the weekly Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart, which tracks all disc sales at most big retailers except Walmart and Sam’s Club, as well as Nielsen’s dedicated Blu-ray Disc sales chart for the week ended March 18.

On the overall sales chart, Warner Home Video’s Happy Feet Two, which earned $64 million in U.S. theaters, debuted at No. 1. Paramount’s The Adventures of Tintin ($77.6 million) bowed at No. 2 and 20th Century Fox’s The Descendants ($82 million) debuted at No. 3.

The first two films are animated family features; Descendants is an Oscar-winning dramatic comedy that stars George Clooney in a critically hailed performance as a wealthy father who tries to reconnect with his daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.

On the Blu-ray Disc sales chart, all three films also captured the top three spots, albeit in a different order. The top-selling Blu-ray Disc was Adventures of Tintin, with Descendants following at No. 2 and Happy Feet Two trailing at No. 3.

Accordingly, Nielsen research shows Tintin generated 50% of its sales from the Blu-ray Disc format, compared to 32% for Descendants and just 23% for Happy Feet Two.

On Home Media Magazine’s weekly video rental chart, Adventures of Tintin was an easy winner, in part due to the fact that Paramount doesn’t delay shipping its new releases to rental dealers.

Sony Pictures’ Jack and Jill slipped to No. 2 after two weeks in the top spot, followed by another new release, Summit Entertainment’s The Three Musketeers, which debuted at No. 3.

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/research/happy-feet-two-dances-way-top-sales-spot-26746

Top 20 Sellers for the Week Ended 03/18/12

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/top-sellers/top-20-sellers-week-ended-031812

[BK007]

This week's is up already. Happy Feet 2 opened with 800k and Hugo came in with 500k. Thank God that many movies have already outsold Jack & Jill.

[fmpro]

Week 12Rank Prev. Rank Title Units this Week % Change Total Units Sales this Week Total Sales Weeks in Release1 (-) Happy Feet Two 896,023 -.-% 896,023 $13,431,385 $13,431,385 12 (-) The Descendants 655,082 -.-% 655,082 $9,819,679 $9,819,679 13 (-) The Adventures of Tintin 504,550 -.-% 504,550 $7,815,480 $7,815,480 14 (6) Puss in Boots 224,006 -28.6% 2,210,887 $4,350,197 $37,090,045 45 (1) Immortals 221,855 -59.1% 763,636 $3,747,131 $13,027,839 26 (-) My Week with Marilyn 207,160 -.-% 207,160 $3,105,328 $3,105,328 17 (2) Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2 180,907 -58.9% 621,050 $2,440,435 $7,717,750 28 (3) Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season 179,670 -53.8% 568,777 $6,106,983 $19,332,730 29 (-) The Three Musketeers 164,510 -.-% 164,510 $2,712,770 $2,712,770 110 (7) The Bodyguard 151,069 -34.4% - $741,749 - 95611 (4) Footloose 135,299 -64.9% 520,505 $2,434,029 $8,813,040 212 (5) Jack and Jill 127,414 -62.7% 469,170 $2,419,592 $8,909,538 213 (9) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 118,096 -13.8% 4,770,619 $2,276,891 $87,054,211 514 (8) Hugo 109,852 -36.3% 798,788 $1,994,912 $13,591,461 315 (-) Young Adult 98,114 -.-% 98,114 $1,765,071 $1,765,071 116 (12) The Help 77,506 -4.6% 4,645,982 $1,410,609 $78,439,010 1517 (15) Downton Abbey: Season Two 71,843 9.5% 641,500 $1,528,819 $12,792,063 618 (10) The Lion King II: Simba's Pride 65,589 -39.2% - $1,311,124 - 69919 (11) Tooth Fairy 2 60,796 -43.3% 168,015 $832,905 $2,225,680 220 (20) J. Edgar 60,137 19.2% 514,265 $901,454 $7,708,832 421 (13) Tower Heist 56,360 -27.7% 688,475 $1,126,636 $12,441,961 422 (14) The Lorax 42,167 -45.0% 258,275 $605,096 $3,412,339 523 (19) Downton Abbey: Season One 41,216 -21.4% 238,978 $700,260 $4,060,236 6224 (21) Justice League: Doom 37,005 8.4% 173,837 $526,441 $2,399,049 325 (22) Real Steel 29,654 -9.8% 1,312,641 $517,759 $22,791,044 826 (24) Weeds: Season Seven 21,184 -17.3% 220,442 $390,209 $4,181,550 427 (23) The Lion King 20,503 -20.7% - $422,647 - 89028 (25) Drive 19,441 -18.2% 481,981 $326,998 $7,467,113 729 (-) The Hangover Part II 19,161 -.-% 3,437,680 $138,342 $43,419,032 1530 (29) Johnny English Reborn 18,828 -4.3% 97,650 $368,276 $1,755,494 3

[fmpro]

Week 13Rank Prev. Rank Title Units this Week % Change Total Units Sales this Week Total Sales Weeks in Release1 (-) The Muppets 884,116 -.-% 884,116 $15,045,532 $15,045,532 12 (-) Hop 704,817 -.-% 704,817 $11,974,841 $11,974,841 13 (-) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 643,548 -.-% 643,548 $10,933,881 $10,933,881 14 (1) Happy Feet Two 228,279 -69.4% 975,461 $3,536,042 $14,736,300 25 (2) The Descendants 200,517 -63.3% 746,782 $3,148,117 $11,336,629 26 (3) The Adventures of Tintin 196,716 -53.2% 617,454 $3,285,157 $9,802,389 27 (-) The Sitter 193,356 -.-% 193,356 $3,229,045 $3,229,045 18 (4) Puss in Boots 162,500 -13.0% 2,336,176 $2,702,375 $39,069,782 59 (-) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 144,376 -.-% 144,376 $2,308,572 $2,308,572 110 (5) Immortals 109,454 -40.8% 836,237 $2,016,143 $14,421,535 311 (7) Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2 99,640 -34.0% 690,639 $1,422,859 $8,735,221 312 (13) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 89,207 -9.4% 4,840,209 $1,626,244 $88,302,238 613 (10) The Bodyguard 88,588 -29.7% - $397,760 - 95714 (8) Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season 72,250 -51.8% 611,182 $2,455,778 $20,774,076 315 (11) Footloose 70,552 -37.5% 568,582 $1,363,770 $9,772,485 316 (14) Hugo 68,431 -25.3% 848,971 $1,064,786 $14,324,864 417 (24) Downton Abbey: Season One 66,857 94.5% 298,988 $1,164,649 $5,108,555 6318 (-) Lady and the Tramp 65,601 -.-% - $2,623,384 - 70619 (6) My Week with Marilyn 61,181 -64.6% 233,929 $960,542 $3,550,034 220 (16) The Help 60,562 -6.3% 4,693,669 $1,043,483 $79,248,168 1621 (12) Jack and Jill 59,501 -44.0% 507,506 $1,147,179 $9,654,794 322 (9) The Three Musketeers 50,218 -63.4% 187,401 $852,199 $3,114,347 223 (17) Downton Abbey: Season Two 42,059 -29.8% 671,625 $900,904 $13,439,011 724 (15) Young Adult 34,127 -58.3% 115,943 $613,945 $2,085,815 225 (20) J. Edgar 32,933 -34.3% 537,208 $493,666 $8,052,748 526 (23) The Lorax 31,163 -11.4% 282,434 $447,189 $3,759,021 627 (21) Tower Heist 30,048 -36.1% 709,161 $544,770 $12,799,585 528 (19) Tooth Fairy 2 25,316 -50.1% 183,232 $357,715 $2,445,039 329 (26) Real Steel 24,847 0.5% 1,332,562 $448,488 $23,153,524 930 (25) Justice League: Doom 21,895 -29.0% 189,585 $304,483 $2,616,083 4

[SchumacherFTW]

Hmm. It sold more on Blu ray than it did on DVD. Had Hop seriously only just come out in the US? I got my copy of it back in September!

[tilko]

'Chipwrecked' Lands Atop Sales Charts

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment topped the national home video sales charts the week ended April 1 with Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, the third installment in the hugely successful franchise of CGI/live-action feature films based on the animated chipmunk characters created for a 1958 novelty record.

The film grossed $132 million in theaters, significantly less than its two predecessors, both of which made more than $200 million. But that’s still a tidy sum, and Fox marketers can take pride in the fact that Chipwrecked bumped Walt Disney’s The Muppets from the No. 1 spot on both the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert chart, which tracks overall disc sales, and Nielsen’s dedicated Blu-ray Disc sales chart.

The Muppets finished its second week in stores at No. 3 on both charts, behind Universal Studios’ Hop, an Easter-themed family film that finished its second week in stores at No. 2. Hop debuted at No. 3 on both charts the prior week but was released on a Friday instead of the traditional Tuesday, so its first-week sales tally only consisted of three rather than six days.

A second new release, Warner’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, debuted at No. 4 on First Alert and No. 5 on the Blu-ray Disc chart. The 9/11 drama, about a boy who lost his dad in the World Trade Center attack, earned just under $32 million in theaters but stars Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock and was nominated for Best Picture at the recent Oscars.

On Home Media Magazine’s weekly rental chart, the three top rentals haven’t changed from the prior week: Sony Pictures’ The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo at No. 1, Universal Studios’ Tower Heist at No. 2 and Sony Pictures’ Jack and Jill at No. 3.

Chipwrecked didn’t make the rental chart because Fox withholds new releases from rental kiosks for 28 days.

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/research/chipwrecked-lands-atop-sales-charts-tattoo-still-top-rental-26884

Top 20 Sellers for the Week Ended 04/01/12

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/top-sellers/top-20-sellers-week-ended-040112

[fmpro]

Looks like shitmunks will do big numbers next week

[rockNrollaDIM]

I get the Easter release but waiting nearly a year to release Hop just seems dumb

[bryan]

Neither Hop deserves to be that high nor shitmunks, I would have prefered to see Muppets repeating the first spot on both formats

[fmpro]

I get the Easter release but waiting nearly a year to release Hop just seems dumb

I don´t think it would have done much better if it were released last year

[forg]

Good debut for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

[tilko]

Top 20 Sellers for the Week Ended 04/08/12http://www.homemediamagazine.com/top-sellers/top-20-sellers-week-ended-040812Easter bunny wins !

[CJohn]

Universal did well to hold the release one year in America.

[fmpro]

Week 14Rank Prev. Rank Title Units this Week % Change Total Units Sales this Week Total Sales Weeks in Release1 (-) Alvin and the Chipmunks Chipwrecked 893,046 -.-% 893,046 $15,556,861 $15,556,861 12 (2) Hop 696,754 19.4% 1,280,542 $12,534,604 $22,453,163 23 (1) The Muppets 257,912 -64.8% 990,210 $4,646,207 $17,108,162 24 (-) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 221,565 -.-% 221,565 $3,321,259 $3,321,259 15 (3) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 143,870 -73.0% 676,910 $2,588,221 $11,644,571 26 (8) Puss in Boots 97,699 -27.4% 2,405,971 $1,478,186 $40,083,925 67 (4) Happy Feet Two 79,124 -58.2% 1,015,385 $1,197,146 $15,326,238 38 (6) The Adventures of Tintin 70,104 -57.0% 653,778 $1,186,160 $10,424,423 39 (5) The Descendants 62,067 -62.6% 774,417 $1,036,519 $11,832,566 310 (7) The Sitter 58,137 -63.7% 218,291 $1,062,163 $3,736,735 211 (18) Lady and the Tramp 52,332 -3.7% - $2,070,254 - 70712 (11) Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2 51,529 -37.6% 725,058 $621,414 $9,112,304 413 (13) The Bodyguard 47,778 -34.9% - $214,523 - 95814 (12) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 46,528 -37.0% 4,871,419 $906,831 $88,929,822 715 (14) Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season 45,331 -24.3% 644,106 $1,540,801 $21,893,163 416 (10) Immortals 41,169 -54.6% 858,610 $806,501 $14,881,813 417 (15) Footloose 38,951 -33.3% 595,418 $745,133 $10,283,435 418 (16) Hugo 35,365 -37.6% 872,585 $532,597 $14,674,615 519 (9) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 32,596 -72.7% 152,180 $521,210 $2,433,358 220 (20) The Help 32,239 -35.7% 4,715,508 $635,431 $79,704,406 1721 (-) The Lion King 30,721 -.-% - $557,245 - 89222 (19) My Week with Marilyn 30,012 -40.8% 253,435 $477,791 $3,862,881 323 (21) Jack and Jill 25,605 -48.0% 522,894 $508,515 $9,966,326 424 (-) Casablanca 20,451 -.-% - $0 - 70325 (22) The Three Musketeers 20,004 -51.9% 198,782 $344,669 $3,312,684 326 (23) Downton Abbey: Season Two 18,538 -46.8% 682,941 $395,786 $13,680,102 827 (26) The Lorax 17,062 -33.9% 294,145 $247,228 $3,929,463 728 (27) Tower Heist 16,305 -34.5% 720,306 $253,706 $12,959,740 629 (-) Melancholia 15,986 -.-% 59,781 $235,154 $869,744 330 (25) J. Edgar 15,700 -42.4% 547,253 $235,343 $8,203,322 6

[rockNrollaDIM]

Looks like Easter-time release was a good move for Hop after all.

[fmpro]

Looks like it..Its doing pretty well

[ecstasy]

1 (2) Hop 729,321 0.3% 2,040,056 $10,516,809 $33,513,143 32 (1) Alvin and the Chipmunks Chipwrecked 674,257 -27.6% 1,606,002 $10,012,716 $26,243,714 23 (-) War Horse 556,326 -.-% 556,326 $9,451,979 $9,451,979 14 (-) We Bought a Zoo 516,286 -.-% 516,286 $8,771,699 $8,771,699 15 (3) The Muppets 330,893 23.0% 1,332,279 $4,830,806 $22,140,300 36 (6) Puss in Boots 133,976 31.4% 2,544,181 $1,768,483 $41,916,468 77 (12) Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2 116,764 117.2% 844,055 $1,249,725 $10,388,958 58 (-) Despicable Me 100,573 -.-% 8,042,410 $1,019,669 $138,028,802 699 (8) The Adventures of Tintin 98,750 35.0% 755,566 $1,423,975 $11,899,800 410 (7) Happy Feet Two 98,677 19.5% 1,117,491 $1,528,507 $16,906,626 411 (4) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 74,318 -67.9% 305,484 $1,114,027 $4,579,205 212 (5) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 73,443 -51.1% 756,587 $1,316,833 $13,073,554 313 (-) Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel 70,817 -.-% 4,418,798 $709,586 $71,773,317 10614 (21) The Lion King 68,848 114.8% - $1,327,410 - 89315 (11) Lady and the Tramp 65,639 20.2% - $2,468,026 - 70816 (27) The Lorax 60,607 240.5% 355,491 $635,767 $4,575,938 817 (-) Tangled 58,783 -.-% 6,497,829 $855,880 $99,953,940 5418 (18) Hugo 55,501 50.4% 929,618 $776,459 $15,474,146 619 (9) The Descendants 49,521 -23.5% 826,627 $760,147 $12,637,619 420 (17) Footloose 43,152 6.2% 640,258 $819,456 $11,135,183 521 (19) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 39,152 15.1% 192,745 $626,040 $3,081,993 322 (14) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 38,654 -20.4% 4,912,089 $695,385 $89,664,499 823 (10) The Sitter 37,487 -38.2% 258,298 $701,007 $4,483,782 324 (16) Immortals 36,531 -15.0% 896,925 $651,713 $15,568,475 525 (15) Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season 33,213 -29.8% 679,283 $1,128,910 $23,088,829 526 (26) Downton Abbey: Season Two 31,290 61.8% 715,034 $491,253 $14,188,499 927 (22) My Week with Marilyn 26,120 -16.6% 280,856 $397,808 $4,281,401 428 (23) Jack and Jill 25,812 -3.4% 549,816 $454,291 $10,442,662 529 (13) The Bodyguard 24,617 -50.6% - $146,963 - 95930 (-) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 21,150 -.-% 6,405,817 $257,396 $87,837,529 22