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.

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: Three Wrongs Make a Right

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

(source Video Business)

1. Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead
2. Trick ‘r Treat
3. Lies & Illusions
4. Assassination of a High School President
5. The Code
6. The Haunted Airman
7. Bring it On: Fight to the Finish
8. It’s Alive
9. Dark Country

Wrong Turn 3 debuting at number one to no one’s surprise, as it’s one of the most hotly anticipated horror titles of the year.  The other most anticipated horror title slips to number two.  The other debut, The Haunted Airman, gets some juice from its star, Robert Pattinson, who was still an unknown when he filmed this straight-to-British-TV-movie finally getting its US release.  We’ll see if Pattinson’s other pre-Twilight release, How to Be,will make similar inroads when it launches later this month.

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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: 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: 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: 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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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.

The Charts: You Can Rent, But You Can’t Buy

Top Straight-to-DVD Rentals for Week Ending 9/6/09

(Source: IMDb)

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

A couple of new entries opening strong at the top.  The Line is a drug drama starring Ray Liotta and Andy Garcia.  It’s not for sale until November, but you can rent it now.  The latest Bring It On sequel is scoring predictably high.  The Killing Room, a psychological-experiment-turns-ugly thriller starring Nick Cannon, Timothy Hutton, Peter Stormare, and Chloe Sevigny won’t be ownable til October, but is holding its own for now.  And if The Code can hang in there a little longer, we might see Morgan Freeman on this chart twice when The Maiden Heist launches next month.

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The Charts: Bring It On Fights to the Finish

The most downloaded straight-to-DVD titles on iTunes as of September 8, 2009:

(source: iTunes)

1. Bring it On: Fight to the Finish
2. Road Trip: Beer Pong (Unrated)
3. Labor Pains
4. The Secret
5. Van Wilder: Freshman Year (Unrated)

The fifth installment of the Bring It On franchise (Can you name the other four? No peeking!) opens strong coming in at number one on our chart and number 11 overall in the iTunes top 100 movie downloads. The Road Trip and Van Wilder sequels make their mark in their unrated incarnations, making one wonder if anyone ever buys the “rated” version. The Secret, out since 2006, cannot possibly still be a secret.

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