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United States Blu-ray Sales Chart for Week Ending October 21, 2012

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  TitleUnits
this
Week
%
Change
Total
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
1 new Madagascar 3: Europes's Most Wanted 499,352   499,352  $10,492,086  $10,492,086 1
2 (1) Prometheus 163,188 -71% 734,411  $3,638,319  $15,892,685 2
3 (-) Avatar 105,563 +1,347% 6,381,222  $2,795,204  $196,067,499 131
4 (3) The Avengers 94,927 -46% 3,905,041  $2,699,249  $95,853,943 4
5 (2) Cinderella 86,538 -51% 871,775  $2,183,937  $21,409,480 368
6 new Moonrise Kingdom 53,780   53,780  $1,098,192  $1,098,192 1
7 (4) ET: The Extra-Terrestrial 30,261 -81% 192,031  $592,808  $3,671,298 1,252
8 new That’s My Boy 29,062   29,062  $583,280  $583,280 1
9 new Chernobyl Diaries 26,216   26,216  $589,335  $589,335 1
10 (6) Dark Shadows 21,173 -63% 267,280  $510,389  $6,110,661 3
11 new Mad Men: Season Five 20,473   20,473  $659,040  $659,040 1
12 (5) Rock of Ages 18,576 -81% 117,855  $463,654  $2,770,888 2
13 (8) Snow White and the Huntsman 15,730 -25% 707,897  $313,963  $15,376,714 6
14 (10) The Hunger Games 13,183 -8% 2,345,643  $251,002  $47,688,246 10
15 (-) Pete's Dragon 12,684   12,684  $256,461  $256,461 614
16 (-) The Dictator 12,434 +425% 125,718  $156,320  $2,506,501 9
17 (16) Titanic 10,187 +10% 299,255  $246,626  $8,600,244 686
- (-) The Cabin in the Woods 9,751 +17% 160,203  $194,627  $3,214,308 5
18 (12) Battleship 9,488 -32% 505,071  $189,279  $11,482,511 8
19 (-) Madagascar 9,138 +1,362% 71,921  $101,663  $1,392,193 362

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.