The Charts: Can’t Keep Bring It On Down

The top straight-to-DVD movie rentals on iTunes as of September 16th, 2009:

(source iTunes)

1. Road Trip: Beer Pong (Unrated)
2. Labor Pains
3. Van Wilder: Freshman Year (Unrated)
4. The Secret
5. Love and Other Disasters
6. The Clique
7. Bring It On: In It to Win It
8. Another Cinderella Story

Love and Other Disasters is a Brittany Murphy vehicle from ’06 notable for the presence of Catherine Tate (if, like me, you’re a Doctor Who fan – or just a Catherine Tate fan).  The Clique is based on a series of Lisi Harrison novels.  We’ll see if it does well enough to become a franchise.  And if Bring It On: Fight to the Finish were available for rental on iTunes, I’m sure it’d be on this list.  Things being what they are, its immediate predecessor will have to do.

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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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The Charts: Can’t Get Enough Kilmer

Top Straight-to-DVD Rentals for Week Ending 8/23

(Source: IMDb)

1. Streets of Blood
2. Labor Pains
3. The Code
4. Messengers 2: The Scarecrow
5. The Chaos Experiment
6. Van Wilder: Freshman Year

Val Kilmer shows up twice on our list this week, topping the charts with crime drama Streets of Blood, in which he co-stars with Fiddy Cent and Sharon Stone and again at #5 as a global warming zealot in The Chaos Experiment with Eric Roberts.  Lindsay Lohan’s straight-to-DVD debut Labor Pains comes in at #2.  Did you know Creed from The Office was in that?  Morgan Freeman/Antonio Banderas actioner The Code rounds out the top three after 61 days on the chart.

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Van Wilder-er-er

In case you were wondering if the director of Kickin It Old Skool would ever work again, you owe me five dollars.  Van Wilder: Freshman Year, the third installment in the Wilder saga, has arrived, serving as a Wilder Begins prequel for the series.

The flick stars Kristin Cavallari from Laguna Beach (and soon The Hills), and all y’all who watch those shows can tell me if this is a disappointing or monumentally appropriate start to her film career.

IMDb users give it a 4.8/10 and Monsters and Critics calls it a “tepid ta ta comedy.”

If you’re desperate to see this without the ta ta’s, it premieres on Comedy Central in September.

Trailer…