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1st week DVD rentals - is it 3.65 million or 1.64 million?

POSTED BY: JOSSIZBOSS
UPDATED: Sunday, January 1, 2006 23:26
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Sunday, January 1, 2006 12:15 AM

JOSSIZBOSS


Can anyone clear this up? Pretty big discrepancy between these two figures. And one has us at #25 and the other at #12...

http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/rentals

http://www.dvdexclusive.com/charts_renters_weekly.asp

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Sunday, January 1, 2006 2:12 AM

FILLYGIRL

Operative: "Its worse than you know..." Mal: "It usually is."


Could it be one may have sales mixed in with the rental totals?? Really confusing!!


...it's worst than you know...Operative
...it usually is.....Mal

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Sunday, January 1, 2006 2:40 AM

THEPRIMARYBUFFERPANEL


Ouch. That is not cool. IMDB counted only DVD rentals...and DVDExpress counted both VHS and DVD.I can't trust IMDB's numbers because they also got the whole gross for the Serenity movie wrong too.

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Sunday, January 1, 2006 4:16 AM

SERYN


not sure if it helps, but on the SFX forum (when I asked if anyone had any ideas) someone mentioned the most accurate and reliable figures are recored by 'Nielson VideoScan'

Hang on -


Quote:



Digital Bits will report DVD sales, but "Aint it Cool" will be another. The major reporter on the sell-through market is "Nielsen VideoScan" - the same people who do the US TV Ratings

Their website quotes

Nielsen VideoScan's VHS and DVD sales charts are currently published in Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Video Store Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and others.




I had a look on the Billboard site, but (as I think someone may have already mentioned) you need a subscription, poot


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Sunday, January 1, 2006 7:48 AM

JOSSIZBOSS




Thanks for the research

Looks like hollywood reporter has the same numbers as imdb, but they only show up to #15 and Serenity isn't on the list so hard to say for sure...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/charts/home_video/rentals.jsp

Although I'm still happy about the DVD sales and still feeling plenty optimistic

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Sunday, January 1, 2006 8:45 AM

ANONYMOUS1


Does anybody know what how Universal's cut is calculated on Serenity rentals?

Does Universal only get money from the sale of the DVDs to Blockbusters etc? Or do they get a cut from each rental?


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Sunday, January 1, 2006 10:25 AM

SERYN


I think the way rentals work (in England at least) the rental company buys a version of the film for something like £40-£50 pounds which goes to the disributer etc, but then the rental place keeps the money from the actual rentals.

So in that case, its not the number of times its rented that count, but how many copies they buy in in the first place.

of course I could be talking rubbish. Anyone know for definite?

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Sunday, January 1, 2006 12:16 PM

HARSHCRITIC


I use to work at Blockbuster and I think that may be correct. I think the video store buys several copies for a certain amount and then lends them out. The movies are considered the sole property of the video store.

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Sunday, January 1, 2006 11:26 PM

JOSSIZBOSS


Bump

Hoping that someone out there has a little more info to add...


And on a side note - does anyone else obsessively click on the amazon dvd sale trackers like 15 times a day??

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