For the week that ended on January 14th, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment's
Black Adam topped both the the Blu-ray-only and overall packaged media charts in its second week. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson had been tapped to play the DC Comics antihero as long ago as 2007 and confirmed his involvement in 2014, back when Black Adam was supposed to be part of
Shazam!. In 2017, the character was split off into his own film with Johnson as the star, but filming was delayed, first by Johnson's busy schedule, and then by the coronavirus pandemic, such that
Black Adam took until April 2021 to begin filming. Upon release in October 2022, the film grossed over $67 million on its opening weekend, the highest opening of Johnson's career. However, mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike led to the film ultimately grossing just over $168 million domestically and over $392 million globally. This week,
Black Adam had an HD share of 54% and 14% of units sold from the 4K UHD format.
Remaining in second place on the Blu-ray-only chart in its tenth week is Paramount Home Media Distribution's
Top Gun: Maverick. Originally announced in 2010, the sequel to the 1986 action blockbuster
Top Gun saw several delays, including the death of director Tony Scott in 2012. When filming finally commenced in 2018, a projected release in June 2019 was delayed a year in order to complete the film's action sequences. That process would be further drawn out by the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, which would see the film's release date moved several more times, before it finally opened in May 2022. After a 36-year wait, the result was an enormous success.
Top Gun: Maverick opened to rave reviews and over $160 million over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, going on to make over $718 million domestically and even more internationally at over $770 million and counting, for a running total of over $1.4 billion worldwide. In June, the film passed $800 million to become the highest-grossing film in Tom Cruise's career, while later that month, it became only the second film since 2019 to cross the $1 billion mark, following Sony's
Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Top Gun: Maverick was also the highest-grossing film of 2022 until it was dethroned in January 2023 by
Avatar: The Way of Water. This week,
Top Gun: Maverick sold 43% as many Blu-ray units as
Black Adam, with an HD share of 54% and 15% of units sold from the 4K UHD format.
And remaining in third place on the Blu-ray-only chart is Universal Pictures Home Entertainment's
Halloween Ends. As with the previous film in the franchise, 2021's
Halloween Kills, this film was announced after the box office success of
Halloween (2018), and both sequels were intended to be shot back-to-back, with projected release dates in 2020 and 2021. However, the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic changed those plans, and forced
Kills to a 2021 release, while
Ends ultimately went before the cameras in 2022. Like its predecessor,
Halloween Ends also received a controversial simultaneous release to theaters and streaming, which, along with relatively negative reviews from critics and audiences alike, resulted in a film that topped the box office on its opening weekend back in October, but with just over $40 million, almost $10 million less than
Halloween Kills. Ultimately, the film would finish in theaters with a global box office take of over $104 million, the lowest of the trilogy by some distance. This week,
Halloween Ends sold 16% as many Blu-ray units as
Black Adam, with an HD share of 54% and 18% of units sold from the 4K UHD format.
Elsewhere on the charts, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's
Groundhog Day, which saw a new 4K UHD release for its 30th anniversary, came in at No. 8 on the Blu-ray-only chart and easily topped the UHD Market Share chart for the week, with 76% of units sold from the 4K UHD format. Lionsgate Home Entertainment's
Fear the Walking Dead: The Complete Seventh Season was the top new release for the week, coming in at No. 18 on the Blu-ray-only chart in its debut.
Top Ten Blu-ray Sellers for Week Ending 1/14/23:
- Black Adam
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Halloween Ends
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- House of the Dragon: The Complete First Season
- The Woman King
- Cowboy Bebop: The Complete Series
- Groundhog Day
- Prey for the Devil
- Elvis (2022)
Top Home Media Sellers for Week Ending 1/14/23 (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted):
- Black Adam (54%)
- Top Gun: Maverick (54%)
- 1883: A Yellowstone Origin Story (27%)
- Halloween Ends (54%)
- The Woman King (47%)
Top Blu-ray 3D Sellers for Week Ending 1/14/23 (Per % of Total Unit Sales):
- Snow White and the Huntsman / The Huntsman: Winter's War (0.50%)*
- Top Gun 3D (0.35%)
- The Wizard of Oz 3D (0.29%)
- Aquaman 3D (0.05%)
*This appears to be an error, since there is no such release in 3D, although
The Huntsman: Winter's War 3D did receive an individual Blu-ray 3D release in certain international markets. For the record, the previous week's top 3D release was
The Polar Express 3D. If and when a correction is made, this article will be updated.
Top Five UHD Blu-ray Sellers for Week Ending 1/14/23 (Per % of Total Unit Sales):
- Groundhog Day 4K (76%)
- Everything Everywhere All At Once 4K (41%)
- House of the Dragon: The Complete First Season 4K (21%)
- Halloween Ends 4K (18%)
- Puss in Boots 4K (17%)