Blu-ray Sales, Mar. 24-30: Frozen Remains Top Seller

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Blu-ray Sales, Mar. 24-30: Frozen Remains Top Seller

Posted April 3, 2014 09:13 AM by Josh Katz

For the week that ended on March 30th, Disney Home Entertainment's Frozen once again took the top spot on the Blu-ray-only and overall package-media charts. This year's Academy Award-winner for Best Animated Feature, Frozen won Disney much acclaim last year. Besides solid critical notices (on Metacritic, the film has a 74% score), Frozen grossed over $1 billion worldwide on top of its estimated $150 million production budget. Furthermore, it's already setting records on the small screen; as Blu-ray.com reported last Monday, the title sold 3.2 million discs in its first day of home-media release, helping to make it Disney's best-selling kids' movie of all time on Blu-ray. This week, Frozen had a Blu-ray market share of 45%.

Next up on the Blu-ray-only and overall package-media sales rankings was Paramount's release of The Wolf of Wall Street. Martin Scorsese's dark corporate satire was one of the director's biggest commercial successes; the film grossed almost $400 million worldwide and was a critical hit as well, becoming the recipient of five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The Wolf of Wall Street sold 39% as many Blu-rays as Frozen, though it did have a higher HD market share of 54%. On the overall package media list, the film sold 32% as many total units as the animated hit.

Finally, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment's Walking with Dinosaurs: The Movie rounded out the top three spots on the Blu-ray-only and overall package-media charts. The family-friendly, part-fiction/part-documentary feature - the big-screen iteration of the BBC's popular Walking with Dinosaurs series - was a modest success for the studio, grossing $126 million worldwide on top of its $80 million budget. On the Blu-ray-only list, Walking with Dinosaurs sold 11% as many copies as Frozen and had a 35% HD market share; regarding the overall package-media chart, the film sold 15% as many units as the Disney picture.

Top Ten Blu-ray Sellers for Week Ending 03/30/14:
  1. Frozen
  2. The Wolf of Wall Street
  3. Walking with Dinosaurs: The Movie
  4. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
  5. Delivery Man
  6. American Hustle
  7. Saving Mr. Banks
  8. Thor: The Dark World
  9. 12 Years a Slave
  10. Despicable Me 2
Top Five Home Media Sellers for Week Ending 03/30/14 (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted):
  1. Frozen (45%)
  2. The Wolf of Wall Street (54%)
  3. Walking with Dinosaurs: The Movie (35%)
  4. Delivery Man (30%)
  5. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (39%)
Top Five Blu-ray 3D Sellers for Week Ending 03/30/14 (Per % of Total Unit Sales):
  1. Thor: The Dark World 3D (22%)
  2. Gravity 3D (13%)
  3. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D (6%)
  4. Pacific Rim 3D (5%)
  5. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (4%)