The Video Software Dealers Association Announces VidTrac Results for Home Video Rental Activity for the Week Ended Sept. 27, 1998
--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 1, 1998--
SOURCE: VIDEO SOFTWARE DEALERS ASSOCIATION
Top 10 Renting Videos
For the Week Ended Sept. 27, 1998
This Last Weeks Weekly Total
Week'sWeek's in Earnings Earnings
Rank Rank Title Video Label Release (Millions) (Millions)
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1 1 City of Angels Warner 2 $4.55 $8.94
2 New Mercury Rising Universal 1 $3.44 $3.44
3 2 Wild Things Columbia TriStar 3 $2.60 $9.31
4 4 The Wedding
Singer New Line 8 $2.10 $31.30
5 3 Primary Colors Universal 3 $1.96 $8.07
6 6 U.S. Marshals Warner 10 $1.73 $38.60
7 5 Titanic (1997) Paramount 4 $1.51 $16.67
8 8 Good Will
Hunting BV/Miramax 12 $1.31 $41.58
9 9 Hush Columbia TriStar 2 $1.31 $2.80
10 7 Deep Rising BV/Hollywood 2 $1.25 $3.01
Top 5 Renting Video Games
For the Week Ended Sept. 27, 1998
Weeks Weekly
in Earnings
Rank Title Platform Release (000)
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1 WWF: Warzone N64 12 $276.00
2 NFL Blitz N64 7 $241.16
3 WWF: Warzone PSX 12 $185.76
4 Goldeneye 007 N64 57 $167.93
5 Gex: Enter the Gekko N64 9 $159.81
National Video Rental Spending (millions)
For the Week Ended Sept. 27, 1998: $130.76
For the Week Ended Sept. 28, 1997: $106.24
Change from the prior year: +23.1%
Year-to-Date through Sept. 27, 1998: $5.99 billion
(+9.0% from $5.50 billion in 1997)
Video Release Schedule
For the Week of Sept. 28 - Oct. 4
Title Video Label Pricing
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Chinese Box Trimark Rental
Paulie DreamWorks Sell-Through
The Object of My Affection 20th Century Fox Rental
Twilight Paramount Rental
Two Girls and a Guy 20th Century Fox Rental
For the Week of Oct. 5 - Oct. 11
A Perfect Murder Warner Rental
Lost in Space New Line Sell-Through
The Spanish Prisoner Columbia TriStar Rental
Source: VSDA VidTrac.
VidTrac Reports are prepared by Streamlined Solutions Inc. from
information provided by the VSDA.
VIDTRAC VIDTIPS
Oct. 1, 1998 -- The following VidTrac VidTips are distributed weekly
by the VSDA and are created especially for entertainment and video
journalists. VidTrac VidTips offer home entertainment tips for
consumers regarding upcoming events, themes, celebrity birthdays and
Hollywood film trivia. The VSDA (Video Software Dealers Association)
is the trade association promoting the $16 billion home video
industry. For more information, contact VSDA's Communications
Department at 818/385-1500.
After the most spectacular regular season in history, Major League
Baseball's playoffs are now in full swing. For years, baseball has
served as a backdrop for countless films.
Get in a "Fall Classic" mood by renting one of these baseball-themed
videos:
"Angels in the Outfield" "The Bad News Bears"
"Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings" "Bull Durham"
"Eight Men Out" "Field of Dreams" "A League of Their Own"
"Major League" "The Natural" "Soul of the Game"
Watch your favorite All-Stars of the past and present in these
biographical baseball flicks:
"Babe" "Babe Ruth Story" "Babe Ruth: The Man, the Myth, the Legend"
"Baseball: The Pete Rose Way" "Cobb" "Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream"
"The Jackie Robinson Story" "Jim Thorpe: All-American"
"Pride of the Yankees" "Ken Griffey Jr.: Adventures in Baseball"
Watch your favorite World Series on video, or rent one of these
baseball compilation videos:
"Baseball's Greatest Moments" "Baseball's Hall of Fame"
"Baseball's Record Breakers" "Baseball's Greatest Hits"
"Baseball's Greatest Memories, Myths & Legends"
"Baseball's Funniest Bloopers"
Want to learn the game? Check out the "The Baseball Masters" how-to
series.
MOVIES COMING TO VIDEO & VIDEO FUN FACTS:
The following videos, highlighting new releases and videos to
remember, can be found at your local video store.
Oct. 6 -- "A PERFECT MURDER"
"A powerful husband. An unfaithful wife. A jealous lover. All of them
have a motive. Each of them has a plan." Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael
Douglas star in this remake of Hitchcock's classic suspense "Dial 'M'
For Murder."
VidTrac's top renting GWYNETH PALTROW videos:
1. "Hush" 2. "Great Expectations" 3. "Seven" 4. "Emma"
5. "The Pallbearer"
Other GWYNETH PALTROW videos:
"Hard Eight" "Jefferson in Paris" "Moonlight and Valentino"
"Hook" and look for "Sliding Doors" on home video soon.
Rent a MICHAEL DOUGLAS flick today!
"The Game" "The Ghost and the Darkness" "The American President"
"Disclosure" "Falling Down" "Basic Instinct" "Shining Through"
"The War of the Roses" "Fatal Attraction" "Wall Street"
"A Chorus Line" "Romancing the Stone" "The Jewel of the Nile"
"The China Syndrome" "Coma" "Hail, Hero!"
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS OF THE WEEK
The following videos, featuring this week's celebrity birthdays, can
be found at your local video store.
WALTER MATTHAU -- Oct. 1, 1920 -- New York
Academy Award-winning performance in "The Fortune Cookie"
"Out to Sea" "I'm Not Rappaport" "Dennis the Menace" "Grumpy Old Men"
"Grumpier Old Men" "JFK" "Little Miss Marker" "California Suite"
"The Bad News Bears" "The Sunshine Boys" "Hello, Dolly!"
"Lonely Are the Brave" "The Odd Couple" and look for
"The Odd Couple II" on home video soon.
CHARLTON HESTON -- Oct. 4, 1924 -- Evanston, Ill.
Academy Award-winning performance in "Ben-Hur"
"Alaska" "Hamlet" "True Lies" "Tombstone" "Treasure Island"
"The Awakening" "The Prince and the Pauper" "Soylent Green"
"Airport '75" "The Three Musketeers" "Call of the Wild"
"Julius Caesar" "Planet of the Apes" "The Agony and the Ecstasy"
"Touch of Evil" "The Ten Commandments" "The Greatest Show on Earth"
SUSAN SARANDON -- Oct. 4, 1946 -- New York
Academy Award-winning performance in "Dead Man Walking"
"The Client" "Little Women" "Lorenzo's Oil" "Thelma & Louise"
"A Dry White Season" "The January Man" "Bull Durham"
"The Witches of Eastwick" "Beauty and the Beast"
"The Rocky Horror Picture Show"
SOURCE: VIDEO SOFTWARE DEALERS ASSOCIATION
CONTACT:
Video Software Dealers Association, Encino, Calif.
Gail Wilson, 818/385-1500, ext. 248
msgailw@vsda.org |
