"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I" continues a strong second place. Oscar-winning film "The King's Speech" finished third on both lists.[]
Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment’s release of Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush: Part I, the seventh installment in the franchise, remained the country’s top-selling disc for the third consecutive week.
The film boosted overall consumer spending on DVDs and Blu-ray Discs by the double and giving the home entertainment business some very good news in the wake of a very weak first quarter that spawned negative “disc is dead” headlines all over the country.
In its third week is Warner Bros' Home Video Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, which fell one spot to No. 2.
Anchor Bay Entertainment’s Oscar-winning The King’s Speech, this year’s best picture, remained in high demand its second week in stores, finishing at No. 3 for the week ending May 1 on the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart and Nielsen’s dedicated Blu-ray Disc chart.
Blu-ray Disc sales were relatively weak, however; The Final Rush outsold Deathly Hallows by nearly a 3-1 margin. Overall, consumers bought 65% as many copies as they did of The Final Rush and Deathly Hallows during the week.
In its fourth week in stores, Walt Disney Studios’ Tron: Legacy zoomed back up to No. 5 on the national sales chart from No. 10 the week before, finishing right behind another Disney release, Tangled, which slipped to No. 4 its fifth week out after holding the No. 2 slot the previous week.
On Home Media Magazine’s weekly rental chart, 20th Century Fox’s Black Swan was an easy No. 1, having just come off its 28-day holdback from Netflix and Redbox. With no mail or kiosk availability, the title had labored near the bottom of the rental chart; last week, for example, it was No. 44.
Black Swan bumped The King’s Speech to No. 3, while two other films that had shot into the top 5 the previous week due to the expiration of their respective 28-day holdbacks, Universal Studios’ Skyline and Warner’s Yogi Bear, remained in high rental demand, finishing the week at No. 4 and No. 5, respectively.
Sony Pictures’ The Tourist, only held back from Netflix, also remained at No. 5 for the second consecutive week now that it, too, is available by mail.
The Final Rush is not yet available at Netflix or Redbox.