Summit Entertainment's '
The Hurt Locker' was the top-selling title on Blu-ray during the week ended January 17, according to Nielsen VideoScan First Alert. The top seller for the previous week, '
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs', fell to seventh place, while '
The Hangover' showed impressive legs in its fifth week and was again number two.
Update
Here is the Blu-ray top 10 (previous week ranking in parenthesis):
- • The Hurt Locker
- (2) The Hangover
- (4) District 9
- (5) Inglourious Basterds
- • Halloween II
- (9) Star Trek
- (1) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- (18) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- • Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself
- (8) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Blu-ray percentages for the week's new releases were as follows:
Overall, BD sales revenue was $18.94 million, up 79.36% from the same week last year.
Packaged-media sales revenue was $159.94 million, up 11.56% year-on-year. Blu-ray accounted for 11.8% of that revenue.