'Riddick' Video Runs with &#36;1.5 Mil in Day 1 Sales
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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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"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" ruled the seven seas with a record $139.8 million domestically over the long Memorial Day weekend, lifting its worldwide total to $404 million.
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The action film holds on to the top box office spot.
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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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Johnny Knoxville and his sadomasochistic buddies took over the North American box office this past weekend with "Jackass: Number Two." The sequel to the 2002 hit earned about $28.1 million to claim the number one spot. Jet Li's "Fearless" settled for s...
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"Transformers," the big-budget movie about alien robots battling on Earth, crushed the competition in theaters over the weekend, racking up $67.6 million in three days to land at No. 1 on box office charts, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
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"Transformers," the big-budget movie about alien robots battling on Earth, raked in $67.6 million at box offices over the weekend to land at No. 1 and bring its seven-day total to a record $152.6 million, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
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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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Animated adventure Shark Tale becomes the best-selling US home video of 2005 earning $80m in its first week.
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Animated autos retained the pole position as &quot;Cars&quot; came in No. 1 at the box office for a second weekend with &#36;31.2 million, holding off the wrestling comedy &quot;Nacho Libre&quot; and another car tale, &quot;The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.&quot;
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Director Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill-Vol. 2" sliced its way to the top of the home video charts last week.
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Adam Sandler's comedy "Click," about a man whose universal remote takes over his life, debuted at #1 bringing in $40 million. "Click" bumped Disney-Pixar's "Cars" into second place with $22.5 million, raising its domestic total to $155.9 million. Jack ...
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Move over Darth Vader. Captain Jack Sparrow is king for a day. Preliminary estimates released by Disney show that &quot;Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man&#039;s Chest&quot; earned &#36;55.5 million on Friday, which would set the record for the largest one-day take at the box office. The previous record was set last year by &quot;Star Wars: Episode III &amp;#151; Revenge of the Sith,&quot; which grossed about &#36;50 million.
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The road trip comedy "Are We There Yet?" earned &#36;18.5 million to quickly arrive at first place in the weekend box office.
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Shark Tale, the animated underwater comedy, continued to rule theaters this weekend, bringing in $31.7 million, according to box office tracking firm Nielsen EDI.
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Movie-goers showed that they weren't afraid of the "Boogeyman," pushing the horror flick to the top of the weekend box office with a &#36;19.5 million debut.