`Casino Royale` features in Top 10 best selling DVDs ever

[stockslivevan]

As the home entertainment industry marks the tenth anniversary of DVD’s launch in the UK, charts supplied by the BVA (using data from the Official UK Chart Company), have revealed the best selling discs from the past 10 years. James Bond lands the #9 spot with his 2006 outing "Casino Royale".

Top Ten Selling DVDs over the past ten years...
1. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN – THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
2. THE LORD OF THE RINGS - FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
3. THE LORD OF THE RINGS – THE TWO TOWERS
4. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN – DEAD MAN’S CHEST
5. THE LORD OF THE RINGS – THE RETURN OF THE KING
6. SHREK 2
7. THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
8. GLADIATOR
9. CASINO ROYALE
10. HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE

Growth in DVD sales has been exponential. By the end of 1998, the new format had sold 200,000 discs but this rose rapidly to 4 million the following year. Now 10 years on, with DVD the established platform, BVA figures reveal a total of 248 million DVDs sold in 2007. Furthermore, the latest data from the BVA reveals that so far in 2008, an additional 63.3 million DVDs have been bought by the British public.

The continued popularity of DVD for home entertainment is clearly illustrated by the charting of Casino Royale as the ninth highest selling DVD of the last decade, a film which was only released in early 2007 and has now exceeded sales of 3.1 million units. The film also charted as the highest selling Blu-ray title in the last year.

I suppose the boycott was successful at preventing CR making it to #8.

[retrokitty]

Well I'm glad that Gladiator is in there..... but that list is strange. It's like on Sesame Street.


"Which one of these things doesn't belong?"


All of them are fluff except for The Shawshank Redemption. No matter what the list, that movie doesn't belong with the rest.

Just odd.

[Mazer Rackham]

I suppose the boycott was successful at preventing CR making it to #8.

How Droll, Troll. And
3.1 mil is good sales in the UK? What the f**k? Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire one of the fastest selling DVD in the UK 2006 sold less than 3 million copies in two years? I don't believe this report, where is Finding Nemo?
BS about being the best selling Blu-ray, not possible, there were bigger Blu-ray sellers in the last two months of 2007 with Spider-man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean At Worlds End. Besides the blu-rays sales dont account for anything right now. No more than UMD sales do, bet CR was at the top of that list.
There were other reports that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Shrek the Third and Transformers, sold very strongly in the UK.

I don't doubt CR sold well in the UK but world wide it sold less the DAD which had over 16 million initial release 8 million for the US and 8 million Europe, all of it sold very fast according to MGM along with the video tape edition.

The Numbers.COm
1 Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End 13,699,490 $279,046,391 12/4/2007
2 Transformers 13,251,378 $262,307,061 10/16/2007
3 Happy Feet 12,353,541 $208,418,686 3/27/2007
4 300 12,248,728 $263,577,299 7/31/2007
5 Ratatouille 11,233,232 $169,016,024 11/6/2007
6 Shrek the Third 10,889,584 $164,198,234 11/13/2007
7 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 9,905,305 $200,996,396 12/11/2007
8 Night at the Museum 8,787,682 $148,189,379 4/24/2007
9 Departed, The 7,563,680 $146,168,519 2/13/2007
10 Spider-Man 3 6,845,349 $116,640,667 10/30/2007
11 Bourne Ultimatum, The 6,839,131 $110,144,592 12/11/2007
12 Knocked Up 6,179,394 $116,394,347 9/25/2007
13 Superbad 5,763,546 $114,524,309 12/4/2007
14 Wild Hogs 5,724,249 $93,752,905 8/14/2007
15 Open Season 5,500,668 $92,713,499 1/30/2007
16 Pursuit of Happyness, The 5,463,491 $89,076,847 3/27/2007
17 Live Free or Die Hard 5,407,501 $92,993,595 11/20/2007
18 Peter Pan 4,936,020 $85,377,686 3/6/2007
19 Ghost Rider 4,864,747 $103,328,132 6/12/2007
20 High School Musical 2 4,850,387 $76,218,434 12/11/2007
21 Charlotte's Web 4,848,305 $82,203,492 4/3/2007
22 Casino Royale 4,832,785 $77,092,814 3/13/2007
23 Hairspray 4,828,382 $94,023,312 11/20/2007
24 Simpsons Movie, The 4,632,907 $78,977,748 12/18/2007

Since you brought it up and gave the Boycott credit boy did they own your ass


The Bourne Ultimatum and Simpsons Movie did their numbers in less than 20 days, not the 292 day CR had.

[stockslivevan]

So that's your defense? "My movie did better than yours"? CR was still successful in its own right, meaning the boycott was an utter failure.