'Transformers' Sets Hi-Def Sales Record
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Although the reviews were lackluster, Michael Bay's Transformers has become the fastest selling title on HD DVD. More than 100,000 copies of the movie sold in the first day and over 190,000 in the first week, setting a record that beat every title on both HD DVD and rival format Blu-ray.
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Steven Spielberg's "Transformers" premiered Thursday in theaters in South Korea, after notching up the country's highest online ticket bookings of any movie this year.
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"The Chronicles of Riddick," a sci-fi movie starring Vin Diesel, sold about 1.5 million combined DVD and VHS units to consumers during its first day in release Tuesday, according to industry sources, an impressive figure for a film that bombed at the box office.
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More than four million DVDs of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ are sold on the first day of release in the US.
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Sci-fi saga Transformers tops the North American box office chart, with takings of $68m in its first weekend.
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HD DVD exclusives not a good thing, Bay says Michael Bay, the director of Transformers, has slammed distributor Paramount's decision to release the hi-def version of the film only on HD DVD.â¦
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Eddie Murphy comedy Norbit goes straight to the top of the UK box office chart in its first week.
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"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" set the record for the highest opening in box office history on Sunday, selling an estimated $132 million worth of tickets in its first three days of release across North America and beating the four-year-ol...
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Japan's Toshiba Corp  said on  Sunday sales of HD DVD players in North America, including  other brands' HD DVD drive sales, totalled 1 million units last  year, driven by demand for Internet-delivered content.
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Thanksgiving came early for the stars of "Shrek 2" as the cast celebrated record-breaking DVD sales.
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First-quarter profit more than doubled on asset sales and income from last yearâs two biggest-selling DVD releases.
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Sony Pictures Entertainment's movie  ticket sales reached $1.577 billion at domestic box offices in  2006, beating an industry record of $1.573 billion set by the  studio in 2002, a company spokesman said on Monday.
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In one week's time, the number of Blu-ray movies sold for every 100 HD DVD movies sold since data was first tracked, increased from 85.05 in the first week of January to 92.4 in the second, according to data made public by Nielsen VideoScan in Home Video Magazine.
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For much of its core 20- and 30-something male audience, Michael Bay's "Transformers" film is more than just a reason to go to the movies on a hot, summer night. It's also an excuse for a grown man to head to the toy store.
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DVD copies of Mel Gibson&#39;s unlikely blockbuster &quot;The Passion of the Christ&quot; went on sale on Tuesday as distributor Fox Home Entertainment reported initial shipments
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"Pirates of the Caribbean:  Dead Man's Chest" has plundered the U.K. record books to become  the fastest-selling DVD of all time, Disney said Monday.
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While HD DVD may be trumpeting the success of Transformers, the format is still struggling to take the lead back from rival Blu-ray. Sony's format has seen sales of 2.6 million discs from January 1 to September 30, compared with 1.4 million discs sold on HD DVD.