August 12th, 2020
There are some relatively big titles on this week’s list of VOD releases. The King of Staten Island and The Wretched both earned some of the loudest buzz during the pandemic-induced disruptions. However, it is a smaller film on this week’s list, Max Reload and the Nether Blasters, that I’m most interested in, as it hits the right nerdy notes for me. I’m also cautiously optimistic about Perry Mason: Season 1.
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August 11th, 2020
TV on DVD continues to dominate the home market on DVD and Blu-ray. This includes this week’s Pick of the Week, Eureka: The Complete Series: Blu-ray. However, it isn’t the only new release worth picking up. The Wretched was a hit in theaters, which you can’t say about most films over the past several months. Meanwhile, the price is the only downside with The Complete Films of Agnès Varda. If you want smaller releases, I would go with Lucky Grandma (DVD or Blu-ray) or Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card (Blu-ray).
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Weekly US DVD Sales
| Date | Rank | Units
this
Week | % Change | Total
Units | Spending
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Week | Total
Spending | Weeks
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Release |
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| Aug 23, 2015 | 12 | 29,286 | | 29,286 | $995,431 | $995,431 | 48 |
| Sep 6, 2015 | 23 | 6,834 | | 46,066 | $232,288 | $1,565,784 | 50 |
| Aug 7, 2016 | 20 | 16,077 | | 16,077 | $530,380 | $530,380 | 98 |
| Aug 19, 2018 | 18 | 7,203 | | 7,203 | $201,468 | $201,468 | 204 |
Weekly US Blu-ray Sales
| Date | Rank | Units
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Week | % Change | Total
Units | Spending
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Week | Total
Spending | Weeks
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Release |
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| Aug 23, 2015 | 10 | 9,463 | | 9,600 | $341,795 | $347,275 | 48 |
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.
