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United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending November 9, 2008

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Week		%
Change		Total
Units		Spending
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Week		Total
Spending		Weeks
1 new Get Smart 685,214   685,214  $11,682,351  $11,682,351 1
2 new Kung Fu Panda 601,515   601,515  $9,898,230  $9,898,230 1
3 (1) Tinker Bell 453,296 -71% 2,004,164  $7,021,555  $31,370,183 2
4 new Shrek the Halls 383,377   383,377  $4,596,690  $4,596,690 1
5 (2) Journey to the Center of the Earth 296,424 -65% 1,139,648  $4,591,608  $17,830,225 2
6 (4) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 217,898 -29% 3,883,201  $3,713,527  $80,481,776 4
7 (3) The Incredible Hulk 197,342 -50% 2,118,149  $3,396,947  $38,891,187 3
8 (5) Iron Man 159,579 -13% 6,479,720  $2,752,307  $120,729,368 6
9 new Barbie in a Christmas Carol 117,377   117,377  $1,524,727  $1,524,727 1
10 (8) Sleeping Beauty 92,572 -22% 1,881,989  $1,387,654  $28,211,015 270
11 new Futurama - Bender's Game 73,249   73,249  $1,317,750  $1,317,750 1
12 (-) Madagascar 69,481 +619% 1,855,618  $1,006,592  $32,346,349 156
13 (6) Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 67,631 -58% 229,113  $1,115,235  $3,881,422 2
14 (9) Family Guy - Volume 6 62,149 -32% 344,983  $1,615,253  $8,966,108 3
15 (7) The Strangers 61,532 -58% 642,304  $1,168,493  $12,136,683 3
16 (-) Alvin and the Chipmunks 55,475 +272% 7,305,801  $888,343  $123,449,182 32
17 (11) Sex and the City - The Movie 55,387 -3% 2,321,808  $1,060,428  $50,519,252 7
18 (13) You Don't Mess with the Zohan 53,995 -1% 826,103  $1,102,281  $16,934,628 5
19 (10) The Nightmare Before Christmas 46,183 -27% 899,342  $1,003,709  $20,828,657 571
20 (19) High School Musical 2 44,950 +27% 5,635,376  $744,372  $89,514,136 48
21 (16) The Polar Express 44,882 +5% 3,684,937  $646,283  $47,397,283 150
22 (14) Forgetting Sarah Marshall 43,717 -1% 1,098,996  $848,062  $21,658,711 6
23 (-) Bourne Trilogy, The 42,004   42,004  $0  $0 48
24 (12) The Happening 40,016 -29% 932,625  $799,920  $18,643,173 5
25 (-) Rescue Dawn 33,530 +70% 1,312,304  $502,615  $23,341,147 51
26 (18) Indiana Jones - The Complete Adventures Collection 26,723 -26% 256,316  $1,603,113  $15,555,638 4
27 (28) Bee Movie 25,010 +2% 4,416,308  $401,501  $72,823,216 35
28 (27) Batman Begins 24,462 -1% 3,365,096  $129,891  $40,201,691 160
29 (22) Saw IV 23,503 -20% 1,782,942  $365,302  $30,426,950 42
30 (-) Transformers 22,818 -1% 14,369,587  $327,516  $270,032,707 56

Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on weekly retail surveys, which we use to build a weekly market share estimate for each title we are tracking. The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News.

For example, if our weekly retail survey estimates that a particular title sold 1% of all units that week, and the industry reports sales of 1,500,000 units in total, we will estimate 15,000 units were sold of that title. The consumer spending estimate is based on the average sales price for the title in the retailers we survey.

We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates.

Because sales figures are estimated based on sampling, they will be more accurate for higher-selling titles.