1-Day Figures Due for 'Passion' DVD Sales
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LOS ANGELES - Total one-day sales figures were expected Wednesday for the DVD of Mel Gibson's biblical epic "The Passion of the Christ," which has already sold about 2.4 million copies.   "We think a lot of the consumers will be going in after work to pick it up," said Steve Feldstein, spokesman for Fox Home Entertainment, which is distributing the DVD...
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LOS ANGELES  - Two feature-length DVDs on the Who will reach stores on November 6, one targeted at mainstream fans of the British rock veterans and the other at die-hard aficionados.
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LOS ANGELES - The DVD of Mel Gibson's biblical epic "The Passion of the Christ" went on sale Tuesday and sold 2.4 million copies by midday.   "We think a lot of the consumers will be going in after work to pick it up," said Steve Feldstein, spokesman for Fox Home Entertainment, which is distributing the DVD...
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Talk about booty.  Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" tallied  first-week sales of 10.5 million units, according to the  studio, making it the biggest home video debut of any new  release this year.
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DVD releases of "Cars" and "Pirates  of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and ad revenue from ESPN's  Monday Night Football are expected to boost Walt Disney Co's   first-quarter earnings by a double-digit percentage.
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LOS ANGELES  - It was gore in the video stores last week. The gruesome prequel "Hannibal Rising" topped the national DVD sales chart for the week ending June 3, while equally brutal "Apocalypto" held on to the No. 1 slot on the rental chart.
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Mel Gibson&#39;s &quot;The Passion of the Christ,&quot; which is being released on DVD on Tuesday, has caused many valid reactions: religious inspiration, charges of anti-Semitism, nausea at the violence
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By Michele Chandler, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 3--Sales of flat-screen TVs, beer, dip and chips are brisk in advance of this weekend's Super Bowl.
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Holiday shoppers in North America snapped up nearly 5 million DVD units of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" in the hit title's first day in release, Walt Disney Co. said on Wednesday.
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Reaffirming the strength  of TV-DVD, the season 2 set of "Lost" debuted at No. 1 on the  national DVD sales chart for the week ending September 10,  while the acclaimed docudrama "United 93" came in at No. 2.
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"Transformers," a special-effects movie extravaganza based on popular toys, earned $27.5 million during its first full day of release and appears on track to dominate the weekend box office, according to estimates on Wednesday by distributor Paramount Pictures.
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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.
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This weekend at the boxoffice Evan Almighty came out on top with sales of $32.1 million, even though the sales were less than half of the $68 million grossed by its predecessor, Bruce Almighty, in its first week. 1408 was number 2 ...
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The Passion of the Christ sells 2.4 million copies on DVD in its first few hours on sale in the US.
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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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"Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason" was the No. 1 film at the international box office over the weekend with an estimated haul of &#36;26.7 million.
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Japan's Toshiba Corp (6502.T) 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.