The Charts: The Tournament Wins the Tournament

Top 10 Straight-to-DVD Rentals for Week Ending 11/8/09

(Source: IMDb – Video Business hasn’t posted yet, for some reason)

1. The Tournament
2. Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead
3. The Maiden Heist
4. Trick ‘r Treat
5. Hardwired
6. Lies & Illusions
7. The Line
8. Blood & Bone

Well, I guess this answers that question.  The Tournament leading the charts with last week’s leader, The Maiden Heist, dropping to third place.  Hardwired debuts right in the middle, giving the list a healthy dose of Cuba Gooding Jr. and Val Kilmer.  Prior chart-toppers The Line and Blood & Bone hanging in at 7 and 8, respectively.

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The Charts: A Treat for Trick

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

(source Video Business)

1. Trick ‘r Treat
2. Lies & Illusions
3. Assassination of a High School President
4. It’s Alive
5. Dark Country
6. The Hills Run Red
7. The Code
8. Bring it On: Fight to the Finish
9. Blood & Bone
10. The Thaw

Trick ‘r Treat debuting strong at number one, vindicating the anitcipation and praise that has followed it on the long road to release.  Assassination also making an impressive bow, ending an almost-as-endless stay in distribution purgatory.  Right behind it is a remake of It’s Alive.  So, yeah, that happened.  And lest you think that our beloved Kilmer had disappeaerd completely from the charts, he’s in at number 10 with Arctic chiller (see what I did there?) The Thaw.

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The Charts: There Will Be Blood

Top US Straight-to-DVD Rentals for Week Ending 9/27/09

(Source: IMDb)

1. The Line
2. Blood & Bone
3. Bring it On: Fight to the Finish
4. Streets of Blood
5. Labor Pains
6. The Killing Room
7. The Code

Michael Jai White holding on to the number two slot after two weeks of release with Blood and Bone.  More blood a little further down the list with Kilmer/Fiddy Cent actioner Streets of Blood hanging on at four.  Action/thrillers in geneal dominating the list with The LIne still on top and The Code and The Killing Room persevering.

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Review: An MMA Look at Blood and Bone

Mixed martial arts reporter (what, you don’t have one for your local Web site?) Peter Lampasona reviews Michael Jai White actioner Blood and Bone for Atlanta site Examiner.com.

You may remember White as Spawn or as the gangster who gets the business end of the Joker’s backstory (version 1.0) in The Dark Knight. Here he plays a character named, um, Bone.

While some serious indie cred awaits him as the lead of fest sensation Black Dynamite, which hits theaters next month, his latest flick, according to Lampasona, only delivers nice fight scenes and some “hilariously unnecessary” cameos from MMA stars.

Blood and Bone drops September 15. You can pre-order it here.