The Video Software Dealers Association Announces VidTrac Results for Home Video Rental Activity for the Week Ended Oct. 4, 1998
--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 8, 1998--
SOURCE: VIDEO SOFTWARE DEALERS ASSOCIATION
Top 10 Renting Videos
For the Week Ended Oct. 4, 1998
This Last Weeks Weekly Total
Week'sWeek's in Earnings Earnings
Rank Rank Title Video Label Release (Millions) (Millions)
1 1 City of Angels Warner 3 $3.80 $12.74
2 2 Mercury Rising Universal 2 $3.54 $6.98
3 New Paulie DreamWorks 1 $2.76 $2.76
4 3 Wild Things Columbia
TriStar 4 $2.60 $11.91
5 4 The Wedding
Singer New Line 9 $1.90 $33.20
6 5 Primary Colors Universal 4 $1.66 $9.73
7 6 U.S. Marshals Warner 11 $1.62 $40.22
8 New The Object of 20th Century
My Affection Fox 1 $1.54 $1.54
9 9 Hush Columbia
TriStar 3 $1.35 $4.15
10 10 Deep Rising BV/Hollywood 3 $1.19 $4.21
Top 5 Renting Video Games
For the Week Ended Oct. 4, 1998
Weeks Weekly
in Earnings
Rank Title Platform Release (000)
1 WWF: Warzone N64 13 $255.95
2 NFL Blitz N64 8 $216.67
3 WWF: Warzone PSX 13 $194.32
4 Goldeneye 007 N64 58 $167.78
5 NFL Blitz PSX 8 $154.12
National Video Rental Spending (millions)
For the Week Ended Oct. 4, 1998: $133.95
For the Week Ended Oct. 5, 1997: $122.55
Change from the prior year: +9.3%
Year-to-Date through Oct. 4, 1998: $6.13 billion
(+8.9% from $5.63 billion in 1997)
Video Release Schedule
For the Week of Oct. 5 - Oct. 11, 1998
Title Video Label Pricing
A Perfect Murder Warner Rental
Lost in Space New Line Sell-Through
The Spanish Prisoner Columbia TriStar Rental
For the Week of Oct. 12 - Oct. 18, 1998
Black Dog Universal Rental
I Got the Hook-Up BV/Dimension Rental
The Last Days of Disco Polygram Rental
Major League: Back to the Minors Warner Rental
Quest for Camelot Warner Sell-Through
Suicide Kings Artisan Rental
Tarzan and the Lost City Warner Rental
The X-Files Movie 20th Century Fox Sell-Through
Source: VSDA VidTrac.
VidTrac Reports are prepared by Streamlined Solutions Inc. from
information provided by the VSDA.
VIDTRAC VIDTIPS
Oct. 8, 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.
In memory of GENE AUTRY -- 1907-1998
"A great man and humanitarian has just ridden off into the sunset." --
Bob Hope. To salute the endlessly entertaining life of the famed
singing cowboy Gene Autry, rent:
"The Big Show" "In Old Santa Fe" "The Phantom Empire" "Melody Trail"
"The Old Corral" "The Big Sombrero" "Cow Town" "Down Mexico Way"
"Git Along Little Dogies" "The Man From Music Mountain"
"Manhattan Merry-Go-Round" "Boots & Saddles" "Oh Susanna"
"Heart of the Rio Grande" "Sioux City Sue" "The Old Barn Dance"
"Prairie Moon" "Radio Ranch" "Ridin' on a Rainbow"
"Robin Hood of Texas"
In memory of RODDY McDOWALL -- 1928-1998
He was born Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall on Sept. 17, 1928,
in London. In addition to his acting career, which began at age 8,
Roddy was also a published photographer. In honor of Roddy McDowall,
rent:
"My Friend Flicka" "Lassie, Come Home" "Macbeth" "Midnight Lace"
"Cleopatra" "That Darn Cat" "The Greatest Story Ever Told"
"Planet of the Apes" "Bedknobs and Broomsticks"
"The Poseidon Adventure" "Funny Lady" "Mae West"
"Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen" "Overboard"
"Around the World in 80 Days" "Last Summer in the Hamptons"
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. 13 -- "THE X-FILES MOVIE"
"The fight for the future is here." Watch Special Agents Fox Mulder
(David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) search for the
truth regarding paranormal activity. Based on the television series,
"The X-Files Movie" is a SCI-FI flick sure to thrill both skeptics and
believers.
GILLIAN ANDERSON can also be seen in "The Turning."
Watch DAVID DUCHOVNY in these videos:
"New Year's Day" "The Rapture" "Chaplin" "Beethoven" "Kalifornia"
and the "Red Shoe Diaries" series.
Other movies based on hit television series:
"The Addams Family" "Batman" "The Beverly Hillbillies"
"The Brady Bunch Movie" "Dennis the Menace" "Dragnet"
"The Flintstones" "The Fugitive" "Leave It to Beaver"
"Mission: Impossible" "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" "Lost in Space"
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS OF THE WEEK
The following videos, featuring this week's celebrity birthdays, can
be found at your local video store.
ELMORE LEONARD -- Oct. 11, 1925 -- Detroit
Elmore Leonard books adapted to film:
"Jackie Brown" "The Ambassador" "Cat Chaser" "52 Pick-Up" "Get Shorty"
"Glitz" "Hombre" "Last Stand at Saber River" "Stick" "3:10 to Yuma"
"Touch" "Valdez is Coming" and look for "Out of Sight" coming soon to
home video.
CHEVY CHASE, born Cornelius Crane Chase -- Oct. 8, 1943 -- New York
"The Groove Tube" "Tunnelvision" "Foul Play" "Saturday Night Live"
"Caddyshack" "National Lampoon's Vacation" "Spies Like Us"
"National Lampoon's European Vacation" "Fletch" "Three Amigos"
"Funny Farm" "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" "Fletch Lives"
"Cops and Robbersons" "Vegas Vacation"
SIGOURNEY WEAVER, born Susan Alexandra Weaver
-- Oct. 8, 1949 -- New York
"Annie Hall" "Alien" "Deal of the Century" "Ghostbusters" "Aliens"
"Working Girl" "Gorillas in the Mist" "Ghostbusters 2" "Alien 3"
"Dave" "Jeffrey" "Copycat"
SOURCE: VIDEO SOFTWARE DEALERS ASSOCIATION
CONTACT:
Video Software Dealers Association, Encino, Calif.
Gail Wilson, 818/385-1500, ext. 248
msgailw@vsda.org
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