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United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending December 9, 2012

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  TitleUnits
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Week
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Change
Total
Units
Spending
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Week
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Weeks
1 new The Dark Knight Rises 2,027,214   2,027,214  $26,353,782  $26,353,782 1
2 (2) Brave 509,236 -13% 4,843,812  $9,191,863  $83,311,742 4
3 (3) Men in Black 3 453,893 +23% 822,994  $7,825,115  $14,277,000 2
4 new The Odd Life of Timothy Green 366,115   366,115  $6,330,128  $6,330,128 1
5 new The Dark Knight Trilogy 329,422   329,422  $8,551,795  $8,551,795 1
6 new Hope Springs 281,580   281,580  $4,865,702  $4,865,702 1
7 (6) Elf 199,275 -24% 4,820,601  $1,815,535  $46,897,130 421
8 (1) Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax 194,004 -70% 4,920,364  $2,830,518  $74,326,984 18
9 (7) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 148,595 -40% 4,131,122  $1,363,612  $49,989,814 786
10 (4) ParaNorman 148,189 -53% 460,529  $2,957,852  $8,398,815 2
11 (5) The Expendables 2 146,568 -45% 746,500  $2,783,326  $11,664,718 3
12 (8) A Christmas Story 144,946 -36% 2,639,171  $1,389,844  $31,261,882 637
13 (16) The Avengers 140,891 -1% 4,266,881  $2,530,402  $79,186,523 11
14 (13) The Amazing Spider-Man 133,999 -23% 1,440,475  $2,406,622  $25,870,931 5
15 (12) The Polar Express 131,972 -25% 6,189,371  $1,199,296  $71,056,979 363
16 (21) Magic Mike 129,336 +17% 1,628,211  $1,727,929  $23,235,112 7
17 (19) Secret of the Wings 128,323 -1% 2,006,808  $2,534,392  $38,002,799 7
18 (15) Sparkle 125,494 -17% 277,555  $2,504,860  $5,278,453 2
19 (11) The Hunger Games 124,066 -32% 6,956,165  $1,837,417  $117,419,466 17
20 (20) Madagascar 3: Europes's Most Wanted 120,214 -3% 2,675,997  $1,713,050  $44,961,629 8
21 (17) Cinderella 116,565 -16% 566,321  $5,548,494  $23,822,354 375
22 (9) Lawless 111,046 -49% 327,321  $2,058,793  $5,802,513 2
23 (-) Mary Poppins 95,424 +153% 1,450,823  $1,904,234  $27,032,043 768
24 (26) Horton Hears a Who! 94,257 +96% 4,976,940  $428,577  $76,455,003 209
25 (14) Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups 89,373 -49% 448,313  $1,783,885  $8,592,592 3
26 (23) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 82,913 +4% 3,454,305  $495,820  $45,026,171 26
27 (-) Downton Abbey: Season 1 & 2 Gift Set 79,670 +1,795% 158,313  $2,852,983  $5,573,085 10
28 (27) The Lucky One 71,874 +54% 1,363,930  $590,804  $17,266,186 15
29 (-) The Campaign 69,853 +66% 921,450  $1,042,905  $13,099,898 6
30 (-) Despicable Me 67,123 +64% 8,717,496  $671,089  $144,378,047 104

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.