Big Picture
Kim & Kourt Take Bev Hills Plus, Daniel Radcliffe works his magic and Bruce Jenner blasts to the past. Get the latest pics!
MORE PHOTOS +Most Commented
- TV's Top Couples Tournament: Vote in the Final Round! (2036)
- TV's Top Couples Tournament: This Round Is Closed, Please Stand By (698)
- Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart Photos Galore! New Pics From Their Post-Twilight Flicks! (606)
- Afternoon Mail! Are Gleeks Having More Sex Than Vamps? (586)
- TV's Top Couple Tournament: And the Winner Is... (504)
- Beyoncé and Jay-Z Share First Photos of Baby Blue Ivy! (398)
- Whitney Houston Dead at 48 (396)
- Life After Breaking Dawn?! Maybe, Says Studio Head! (226)
- Morning Mail! Céline Dion Talks Whitney Houston's Tragic Death (222)
- Blind Vice! Nevis Divine's Sad Past (214)
Top 10 Stories
- Colbert Report Mystery Shutdown: Production Suspended Due to "Unforeseen Circumstances"
- Kevin Costner? Aretha Franklin? Bobby Brown? Latest Details on Whitney Houston's Funeral
- Diddy Remembers Whitney Houston: "She Was So Full of Life"
- Royal Feud Shocker! Sean Penn Slams Prince William's "Unthinkable" Deployment
- Real Housewives' Michaele Salahi & Journey's Neal Schon: Tareq Salahi Is the One Tormenting Us!
- Angelina Jolie Tears Up—Watch Her Get Emotional
- Josh Duhamel Not Coming Back for Transformers 4: Is Anyone?!
- Spoiler Chat Daily: A New Girl Baby on the Way?! Plus, Scoop on Vampire Diaries, Glee and More
- Jersey Shore Sneak Peek: Pauly D Pulls a Fast (and Dirty) One on Deena
- American Idol: Did Tent Girl Get Better? Who Passed Out Onstage? And Who's Headed to Vegas?!
Fashion Police
Leighton's Valentine's Look Plus, Ashlee Simpson and Cate Blanchett. Rate the highs and lows!
MORE PHOTOS +
Our Partners
Indy DVD Whips Record
After a week in stores, The Adventures of Indiana Jones--The Complete DVD Movie Collection has found fortune and glory.
The long-awaited collection moved 1.1 million copies in its first week, making it the best-selling DVD set of all time.
Retailing for $46 a pop, the four-disc package, which debuted on October 21, sold an estimated 600,000 units within its first 24 hours for a haul of $28 million. Total receipts have already topped $50 million.
"This is just the beginning of what looks to be a long and very successful run," said Jim Ward, Lucasfilm's veep of marketing and distribution.
"We couldn't be more pleased about the fantastic sales figures, but probably the best news is that we delivered a collection that lived up to the enormously high expectations that Indiana Jones fans had for this movie collection. We know that Indy is at the top of their holiday gift lists, as well, so we're looking forward to strong results through the end of the year."
Adventures of Indiana Jones makes available for the first time on DVD all three Indy flicks--1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade--along with a fourth disc of goodies, including new interviews with director Steven Spielberg, producer-writer George Lucas and star Harrison Ford, deleted scenes and documentaries, all remastered in digital surround sound.
The box set is expected to tide over fans until the Indy brain trust gets moving on the fourth installment, which is slated to start filming sometime in 2004 and hit the big screen on July 4, 2005.
Meanwhile, another recent video release also put up boffo numbers. Disney's The Lion King, released October 7, moved 3 million copies in just its first two days of release, with DVDs accounting for 92 percent of the initial sales, according to the Mouse House.While the 'toon failed to match the single-day sales record set by Sony's Spider-Man (7 million combined DVD and VHS copies upon its release last year), it remains the all-time champ in home-video sales, having previously sold 32 million VHS copies in its initial release in the mid-1990s.
Mickey's minions are expected to challenge Spider-Man's record next week with the release of Finding Nemo. Expectations for the Disney-Pixar joint, due out Tuesday, are running high, especially since it eclipsed The Lion's King box-office record as Hollywood's highest-grossing animated feature.
0 Comments
Now loading...