Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure Best-Selling Straight-to-DVD Title of ’09

Top Straight-to-DVD Sales of 2009

(Source The Numbers)

1. Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
2. Santa Buddies
3. Space Buddies
4. Bring It On: Fight to the Finish
5. Barbie and the Three Musketeers

Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure wins the year with $51.4 million in sales and 3.3 million units sold.  The film comes in at #22 on the overall DVD chart for 2009, right behind fellow Disney title High School Musical 3 and beating out Fast and Furious.  Sequel comes in just behind the original Tinker Bell, which claimed the same record in 2008 with $51.8 million in sales.

Children’s movies dominated the year, with two separate Buddies entries landing the two and three slots with $38.3 million for Santa Buddies and $29.4 million for Space Buddies.  Barbie and the Three Musketeers pulled in $14.9 million, coming in just behind Bring It On: Fight to the Finish‘s $15.3 million haul, even though Barbie sold almost 200,000 more units.

Tinker Bell 2nd Highest Grosser for 2009 After One Week

Top Selling Straight-to-DVD Titles for Week Ending 11/1/09

(source The Numbers)

1. Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
2. Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
3. Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead
4. Barbie and the Three Musketeers

Tinker Bell making a huge splash with a number one debut on the straight to DVD charts and a number two bow on the DVD charts overall, well behind Ice Age 3, which moved a million more units, but ahead of the second frame of Trans-freakin-formers!  Tink sold almost 1.5 million copies for a first week haul of nearly $24 million.  That puts it behind only Space Buddies (think Air Bud in space) for highest-grossing straight-to-DVD title of ’09 so far.  Given that Buddies‘ run is pretty much over (it came out in February) and it currently rests at just under $29 million with just under 2 million units sold, both records are well within Tink’s reach.

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan opening strong in the number two slot (number seven overall) with $3 million in the kitty.  That haul might explain the motivation behind a straight-to-DVD premiere vs. a premiere on SyFy (which won’t happen until 2010, I hear).

Wrong Turn 3 closing in on $3 million after a sharp sales drop in it’s second week of release.  Barbie inching a little over $11.5 million after seven weeks in the mix.

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If Loving Wrong Turn 3 Is Wrong, Then the Charts Don’t Want to Be Right

Top Selling Straight-to-DVD Titles for Week Ending 10/25/09

1. Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead
2. Barbie and the Three Musketeers
3. Bring it On: Fight to the Finish

Wrong Turn 3 busing out of the gate with a decent nearly-$2 million haul moving just over a hundred grand units.  After six weeks Barbie adding another half-mil to the kitty to bring the total to just over $11 million.  Bring It On hitting roughly the same number after 24 weeks.  Maybe they should do a Barbie/Bring It On crossover.  Is there a Cheerleader Barbie?

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The Charts: Keep on Trickin’

Top Selling Straight-to-DVD Titles for Week Ending 10/11/09

1. Trick ‘r Treat
2. Clifford the Big Red Dog: Clifford’s Big Halloween
3. Bring It On: Fight to the Finish
4. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
5. Barbie and the Three Musketeers

Trick ‘r Treat debuts on top of the sales as well as the rental charts.  Chiller just squeaked into the top ten overall DVD sales with 94,717 units moved and $1,419,808 in sales.  Clifford the Big Red Dog: Clifford’s Big Halloween actually moving up the chart as we get closer to Halloween.  Flick has earned $1,197,345 off 141,030 units so far.  Bring It On: Fight to the Finish also moving up the chart breaking the $10 million mark.  No idea if that has anything to do with Halloween.  (Dressing up as a cheerleader?  Let us know.)  Superman/Batman: Public Enemies taking a tumble after debuting at number one, but has earned a respectable $4,276,981 so far.  Barbie and the Three Musketeers also sliding down  the chart, but lands just shy of breaking the $10 million mark.

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The Charts: Superman/Batman Open Strong

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies opening strong at #5 in the overall Top 30 DVD Sales Chart for the week ending 10/4/09.  Flick moved 194,593 units for $3,222,460 in sales, putting it right behind the second week of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past‘s 195,690 units.  Barbie and the Three Musketeers closing in on the $10 million mark after 3 weeks of release.  Halloween putting a lot of kid’s flicks on the charts, including the feature-length Clifford the Big Red Dog: Clifford’s Big Halloween, moving over 60,000 units with its debut.  Meanwhile Bring It On: Fight to the Finish also closing in on $10 million after 5 weeks of release.  Its immediate predecessor, In It to Win It, got to $15 million in only 3 weeks.

The Charts: Barbie on Top

Two straight-to-DVD titles making it into the Top 30 DVD Sales Chart for the week ending 9/20/09.  Barbie and the Three Musketeers debuts at number two.  Two!  That’s right behind the debut of Wolverine, which outsold it about six times over, but still.  Barbie moved 399,420 units for a total of $5,643,805 in sales.  Not too shabby.

Bring It On: Fight to the Finish racked up another 47,504 units this week to come in at 19 after dropping from fifth place.  After three weeks in release it’s sold 415,629 copies for a grand total of $7,397,149, putting it on track to be the least successful entry in the franchise (unless Bring It On Again did far worse than I imagine).  Time will tell, though.  It’s only a couple of million behind where All or Nothing was in its third week.

Interview: Barbie Reveals All

Amazon has an exclusive interview with the star of Barbie and the Three Musketeers, and if you think Barbie’s recent stint in rehab is off the table, well…it is, are you high?  Her latest movie has her proving that women can be musketeers, too.  And no, Barbie being asked to describe the character she plays in a movie never stops sounding weird.  Oh, and they end the interview talking about her going to Fashion Week, because that kinda sorta actually happened.  Seriously.

Barbie and the Three Musketeers drops September 15.  You can pre-order it here.