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United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending November 16, 2008

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  TitleUnits
this
Week
%
Change
Total
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
1 (2) Kung Fu Panda 2,667,861 +344% 3,269,376  $42,530,240  $52,428,470 2
2 new Hellboy 2: The Golden Army 1,007,736   1,007,736  $18,011,266  $18,011,266 1
3 new Star Wars: The Clone Wars 394,953   394,953  $7,366,031  $7,366,031 1
4 new This Christmas 298,965   298,965  $5,976,310  $5,976,310 1
5 (1) Get Smart 289,339 -58% 974,553  $4,945,787  $16,628,138 2
6 (4) Shrek the Halls 243,958 -36% 627,335  $2,925,056  $7,521,746 2
7 (3) Tinker Bell 219,298 -52% 2,223,462  $3,396,926  $34,767,109 3
8 (5) Journey to the Center of the Earth 151,546 -49% 1,291,194  $2,347,448  $20,177,673 3
9 (6) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 144,021 -34% 4,027,222  $2,421,987  $82,903,763 5
10 (8) Iron Man 141,218 -12% 6,620,938  $2,344,657  $123,074,025 7
11 (7) The Incredible Hulk 125,692 -36% 2,243,841  $2,135,394  $41,026,581 4
12 new Katt Williams: It's Pimpin' Pimpin' 111,665   111,665  $1,673,858  $1,673,858 1
13 new Beer for My Horses 110,015   110,015  $2,199,200  $2,199,200 1
14 (12) Madagascar 103,964 +50% 1,959,582  $1,496,208  $33,842,557 157
15 new Radio City Christmas Spectacular Starring the R… 98,463   98,463  $885,182  $885,182 1
16 new The Perfect Holiday 78,661   78,661  $1,572,433  $1,572,433 1
17 (9) Barbie in a Christmas Carol 72,610 -38% 189,987  $943,204  $2,467,931 2
18 new Scrubs: The Complete Seventh Season 72,335   72,335  $1,445,977  $1,445,977 1
20 (16) Alvin and the Chipmunks 69,584 +25% 7,375,385  $1,313,057  $124,762,239 33
19 (10) Sleeping Beauty 69,584 -25% 1,951,573  $1,043,064  $29,254,079 271
21 (17) Sex and the City - The Movie 65,217 +18% 2,387,025  $1,256,034  $51,775,286 8
22 new Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage 63,259   63,259  $948,252  $948,252 1
23 (21) The Polar Express 59,683 +33% 3,744,620  $864,657  $48,261,940 151
24 (13) Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 50,928 -25% 280,041  $839,803  $4,721,225 3
25 (19) The Nightmare Before Christmas 49,507 +7% 948,849  $1,075,144  $21,903,801 572
26 (15) Strangers, The 42,940 -30% 685,244  $815,431  $12,952,114 4
27 (18) You Don't Mess with the Zohan 41,716 -23% 867,819  $849,705  $17,784,333 6
28 (25) Rescue Dawn 36,289 +8% 1,348,593  $543,972  $23,885,119 52
29 (-) The Forbidden Kingdom 35,595 +146% 1,060,227  $550,188  $20,907,815 10
30 (-) Independence Day 33,563 +315% 291,666  $309,239  $3,799,070 438

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.