Star Trek passes 8 Million DVDs Sold

[Flake]

In its 8th week of release Star Trek has crossed 8 Million:

TOP DVD SALES - Week Ending 10 January 2010

1 NE 1 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS Animated 1.352.000 1.352.000
2 1 4 THE HANGOVER Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms 466.000 9.121.000
3 NE 1 THE FINAL DESTINATION Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten 397.000 397.000
4 3 3 DISTRICT 9 Sharlto Copley, David James 236.000 2.120.000
5 2 2 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat 204.000 565.000
6 6 4 INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Brad Pitt, Mike Myers 195.000 3.499.000
7 4 5 HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE Daniel Radcliffe 160.000 8.580.000
8 5 2 9 Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly 141.000 334.000
9 NE 1 CHUCK - SEASON 2 Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski 118.000 118.000
10 8 9 UP Animated 117.000 9.433.000
11 7 2 GLEE: VOLUME 1 - ROAD TO SECTIONALS Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch 115.000 281.000
12 13 5 PUBLIC ENEMIES Johnny Depp, Christian Bale 99.000 1.852.000
13 14 8 STAR TREK Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto 98.000 8.059.000
14 9 3 FAMILY GUY: SOMETHING…DARK SIDE Animated 97.000 501.000
15 12 2 JENNIFER'S BODY Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried 81.000 183.000
16 11 6 TERMINATOR: SALVATION Christian Bale, Sam Worthington 76.000 2.482.000
17 18 4 G-FORCE Animated 64.000 1.720.000
18 RE 21 THE DARK KNIGHT Christian Bale, Michael Caine 63.000 18.793.000
19 16 3 (500) DAYS OF SUMMER Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel 61.000 364.000
20 RE 4 JULIE & JULIA Meryl Streep, Amy Adams 60.000 1.775.000

Source: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/forums...tart=180&sid=e77acf38e9960dccd3fca8fef73674ba

 

[Flake]

Star Trek vs Star Wars:

Attack of the Clones: 10,500,000 (21wks on chart)
Revenge of the Sith: 9,850,000 (10wks)
Star Trek: 8,059,000 (8wks)
The Phantom Menace: 8,265,000 (31wks)

 

[cooleddie74]

SWEET! Nice to see these sales numbers...TREK is not only back, but back with a vengeance!

 

[MvRojo]

Star Trek vs Star Wars:

Attack of the Clones: 10,500,000 (21wks on chart)
Revenge of the Sith: 9,850,000 (10wks)
Star Trek: 8,059,000 (8wks)
The Phantom Menace: 8,265,000 (31wks)

To be fair, there was much less market penetration when the other films were released, significantly so especially with TPM..

 

[Flake]

Not so with Sith and Clones though, both of which were released at the peak of DVD popularity!

 

[Borgminister]

So I take it the numbers are good? Could it hit 10 mill, or is it on the downslide?

 

[MvRojo]

Not so with Sith and Clones though, both of which were released at the peak of DVD popularity!

Yeah, that's true for Sith, but not really for Attack of the Clones.

Even in 2002, DVD sales were less than 50% of what they were last year and there had only be about 50+ million players sold at that point (it's around 300 million now).

In any case, Star Trek's sales numbers are good.

 

[cooleddie74]

Star Trek vs Star Wars:

Attack of the Clones: 10,500,000 (21wks on chart)
Revenge of the Sith: 9,850,000 (10wks)
Star Trek: 8,059,000 (8wks)
The Phantom Menace: 8,265,000 (31wks)

To be fair, there was much less market penetration when the other films were released, significantly so especially with TPM..

Also, TPM's first release on disc didn't come until the spring or summer of 2001...well over a full year after the movie first hit the home-video market on VHS. By that time most people who were gonna rush to get the movie had already done so and the Big Surge was over.

 

[USSPhilippi]

How many copies did the Star Wars Original Trilogy sell (released in 2004)? I think that would be a more apt comparison.

 

[shapeshifter]

"Star Trek passes 8 Million DVDs Sold"

Is this a record for Trek DVDs?

 

[SalvorHardin]

How about blu-ray sales ?

 

[KobayashiMaru13]

Good to know i contributed to 0.000000025% of those sales with the 2 DVD's I bought!

 

[Aike]

How about blu-ray sales ?

It includes blu-ray. The exact number is probably around 1.5-2.5 million copies.

 

[cwnorma]

It IS nice to like something in the mainstream again...

 

[Aike]

"Star Trek passes 8 Million DVDs Sold"

Is this a record for Trek DVDs?

Yes, Nemesis sold about 1.5 million copies.

 

[bbailey861]

Those numbers are quite impressive. More so considering there has likely been tens of millions of illegal downloads from people who didn't purchase the movie.

 

[SalvorHardin]

Those numbers are quite impressive. More so considering there has likely been tens of millions of illegal downloads from people who didn't purchase the movie.

As a matter of fact, XI was declared the most pirated movie of 2009 with more than 10 million downloads

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8429559.stm

 

[MvRojo]

Star Trek is still in the Top 10 for Blu-Ray sales, actually moving up from #9 to #6 last week.

 

[cooleddie74]

It's pretty much assured of being THE best-selling STAR TREK-related DVD to date in any respect...movie or television series.

 

[Aragorn]

So what negative thing can be said about this that will move the goalposts back even further?