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.

Theater counts: Cruella takes command as this week’s widest release

May 27th, 2021

After having only one wide release debut last week (Bleecker Street’s Dream Horse in 1,254 locations), this week we see the arrival of two highly-anticipated films. The widest release will be Walt-Disney’s Cruella, which tells the story of the infamous “Cruella de Vil” of 101 Dalmatians fame. The crime comedy starring Emma Stone as the title villainess opens in 3,892 theaters. Coming in second this week with 3,726 theaters is the release of Paramount Pictures’s A Quiet Place: Part II, returning Emily Blunt as Evelyn Abbott and helmed by off-screen husband John Krasinski. The original movie collected $335 million worldwide. More...

Theater counts: Those Who Wish Me Dead remains the widest release

May 20th, 2021

The top three films in theaters this week are somewhat of an anomaly in terms of their box office results versus their theater counts. The widest release of the week is Warner Bros.’, Those Who Wish Me Dead, which opened in 3,188 locations, and likely play in something similar this weekend, but took in the least at the box office ($2.83 million). Another newcomer, Spiral, took the top spot at the box office with $8.75 million, but had the lowest theater count of the three at 2,811. It will gain 185 new venues this week. In the middle was Wrath of Man, which pulled in $3.7 million from 3,007 locations and remains in those theaters for a second weekend. Those films will go largely unchallenged this week as the only new wide release is Bleecker Street’s Dream Horse. The film based on a true story and starring Toni Collette and Damian Lewis opens in 1,256 locations... More...

Note: This list contains actors who appeared in at least two movies in the franchise.

Note: This list contains people who contributed to at least two movies in the franchise.