Blu-ray Sales: March 5-11: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Still Purr-fect in Second Week

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Blu-ray Sales: March 5-11: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Still Purr-fect in Second Week

Posted March 17, 2023 03:34 AM by Sean Greenwood

For the week that ended on March 11th, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment's Puss in Boots: The Last Wish remained on top of both the Blu-ray-only and overall packaged media charts in its second week. The sequel to 2011's Puss in Boots concerns the feline hero's quest for to find magic star which can restore the eight of his nine lives he has used up. Over a decade on from the first film, and featuring a notably different computer-generated animation style to the other films in the Shrek franchise, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish opened in December 2022 to positive reviews. Despite finishing second on its opening weekend, behind the gargantuan Avatar: The Way of Water, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has legged it to over $180 million domestically and over $463 million globally. The film was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film at the Academy Awards. This week, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish had an HD share of 51% and 8% of units sold from the 4K UHD format.

Moving up one spot to second place on both charts is Walt Disney Home Entertainment's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. After the historic success of Black Panther in 2018, including seven Oscar nominations and three wins, as well as making over $1.3 billion worldwide, a sequel seemed obvious. However, unbeknownst to the public and to the film's cast and crew, star Chadwick Boseman had been privately battling cancer, and would pass away suddenly in August 2020. While Boseman's death could have meant that the Black Panther character would be recast, Marvel ultimately made the decision not to do so and instead, writer and director Coogler re-tooled the script to focus on other characters. The 30th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is considered the final film of Phase Four of the series, and released in November 2022 to critical acclaim and box office success, earning over $181 million on its opening weekend. So far, the film has grossed over $858 million worldwide and was recently nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Angela Bassett, the first Oscar-nominated performance in a Marvel film. This week, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever sold 41% as many Blu-ray units as Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, with an HD share of 48% and 19% of units sold from the 4K UHD format.

And dropping a spot to third place on both charts is Paramount Home Media Distribution's Devotion. The biopic tells the story of Jesse Brown, the first Black aviator in U.S. Navy and his friendship with white fellow officer Tom Hudner. The film received positive reviews, but failed to make a dent at the box office, where it was released by Sony's Columbia Pictures in November 2022. Since that time, star Johnathan Majors has had starring roles in both Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Creed III, with many singling out his performances for praise, so this may explain the success of Devotion on home media. This week, Devotion sold 29% as many Blu-ray units as Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, with an HD share of 50% and 6% of units sold from the 4K UHD format.

Elsewhere on the charts, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's Air Force One and The Mask of Zorro, both of which were re-released on 4K UHD with new Dolby Vision HDR encodes and SteelBook packaging, came in at No. 7 and No. 11, respectively, on the Blu-ray-only chart. Meanwhile, as its predecessor did last week, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and MGM's Rocky II, which had a standalone release as a Best Buy Exclusive 4K UHD SteelBook this week, came in at No. 10 and topped the UHD Market Share chart for the week, with over 99% of units sold from the 4K UHD format.

Top Ten Blu-ray Sellers for Week Ending 3/11/23:
  1. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
  2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  3. Devotion
  4. Top Gun: Maverick
  5. Everything Everywhere All At Once
  6. Black Adam
  7. Air Force One
  8. John Wick: Chapters 1-3
  9. Violent Night
  10. Rocky II
  11. The Mask of Zorro
Top Five Home Media Sellers for Week Ending 3/11/23 (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted):
  1. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (51%)
  2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (48%)
  3. Devotion (50%)
  4. Top Gun: Maverick (49%)
  5. Black Adam (46%)
Top Blu-ray 3D Sellers for Week Ending 3/11/23 (Per % of Total Unit Sales):
  1. Top Gun 3D (0.33%)
  2. Sing 3D (0.17%)
  3. The Wizard of Oz 3D (0.11%)
Top Five UHD Blu-ray Sellers for Week Ending 3/11/23 (Per % of Total Unit Sales):
  1. Rocky II 4K (99.74%) (Best Buy Exclusive)
  2. John Wick: Chapters 1-3 4K (31%)
  3. Scream 4K (2022) (20%)
  4. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 4K (19%)
  5. Top Gun: Maverick 4K (18%)