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United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending December 23, 2012

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1 (1) Ted 1,041,887 -37% 2,708,906  $18,920,668  $46,826,566 2
2 (2) The Dark Knight Rises 891,334 +8% 3,744,389  $9,082,693  $47,378,136 3
3 new Pitch Perfect 806,004   806,004  $14,232,902  $14,232,902 1
4 (3) Ice Age: Continental Drift 566,057 -13% 1,220,029  $8,281,414  $19,183,127 2
5 (5) Brave 456,242 +30% 5,652,128  $6,446,745  $95,923,373 6
6 new Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days 396,334   396,334  $6,713,898  $6,713,898 1
7 (7) Men in Black 3 273,600 +50% 1,278,799  $3,420,000  $21,204,446 4
8 (4) The Bourne Legacy 271,516 -52% 833,968  $5,419,459  $15,402,982 2
9 new Trouble with the Curve 240,884   240,884  $3,644,575  $3,644,575 1
10 new Total Recall 209,732   209,732  $3,638,850  $3,638,850 1
11 (13) The Avengers 206,502 +40% 4,621,081  $3,743,881  $85,837,101 13
12 (19) Madagascar 3: Europes's Most Wanted 197,333 +94% 2,974,851  $2,500,209  $48,548,113 10
13 (17) Secret of the Wings 187,540 +53% 2,316,707  $2,636,925  $42,801,808 9
14 (15) The Hunger Games 178,996 +29% 7,273,524  $2,683,150  $121,559,578 19
15 (9) The Odd Life of Timothy Green 162,847 -1% 693,830  $2,486,674  $11,711,884 3
16 (8) Magic Mike 147,427 -19% 1,957,676  $1,462,476  $26,334,110 9
17 (18) The Amazing Spider-Man 139,509 +33% 1,685,006  $2,084,264  $29,797,281 7
18 (21) Cinderella 136,070 +41% 799,078  $5,249,581  $33,454,757 377
19 (12) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 132,320 -13% 4,415,974  $1,263,881  $52,562,298 788
20 (25) Hope Springs 121,329 +56% 480,686  $1,883,026  $8,259,935 3
21 (14) The Dark Knight Trilogy 117,837 -18% 590,456  $3,059,049  $15,328,238 3
22 (20) Lawless 113,169 +12% 541,610  $2,115,129  $8,999,626 4
23 (16) The Expendables 2 110,232 -18% 991,427  $1,243,417  $14,898,927 5
24 (-) Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups 99,823 +68% 607,504  $1,496,347  $11,252,552 5
25 new Resident Evil: Retribution 96,166   96,166  $1,727,141  $1,727,141 1
26 (6) Elf 89,908 -57% 5,121,387  $799,003  $49,513,290 423
27 (10) A Christmas Story 88,123 -46% 2,891,829  $861,772  $33,488,883 639
28 (-) The Dark Knight 84,914 +415% 17,694,097  $355,611  $262,705,227 211
29 (29) ParaNorman 77,651 +12% 607,321  $1,549,914  $11,328,783 4
30 (26) Horton Hears a Who! 75,725 +3% 5,125,849  $302,915  $77,049,322 211

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.