Here are this week’s top videos in rentals and sales:
RENTALS
1. Star Wars: … Sith (full screen)
2. Bewitched
3. Batman Begins
4. House of Wax
5. Herbie: Fully Loaded
SALES
1. Star Wars: …Sith (widescreen)
2. Star Wars: … Sith (full screen)
3. Herbie: Fully Loaded
4. Office Space (widescreen)
5. Batman Begins (widescreen)
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Some of this week’s new movie and TV releases on DVD:
Alien vs. Predator Unrated Collector’s Edition
Cheaper by the Dozen: Baker’s Dozen (2003)
A Dog’s Life: A Dogamentary
The Grand Role
Hell on Wheels
The Honeymooners
King Kong
The King Kong Collection
The Last Days of Pompeii
Mighty Joe Young
Operation Last Patrol
The Polar Express
Punishment Park
Ran
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
The Son of Kong
The Tales of Hoffman
The True Stories Collection
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“Rent” is the latest big-time musical to go to the silver screen. Here’s a look at the five most successful movie musicals (first figure is total domestic gross, second is opening weekend, in millions, except as noted):
1
Grease
$188.4
$8.9, 1978
2
Chicago
$170.7
$2.1, 2002
3
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
$112.9
Not available, 1975
4
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
$69.7
$11.9, 1982
5
Moulin Rouge!
$57.4
$167,540, 2000
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Box office
Here are last week’s gross revenues in millions of dollars at North American theaters for the top 10 films, followed by total amount grossed and number of weeks in release in parentheses.
1
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
$102.3 (one week)
2
Walk the Line
$22.3 (one week)
3
Chicken Little
$14.7
$99.1 (three weeks)
4
Derailed
$6.5
$21.8 (two weeks)
5
Zathura: A Space Adventure
$5.1
$20.3 (two weeks)
6
Jarhead
$4.8
$54.4 (three weeks)
7
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
$4.4
$24.5 (two weeks)
8
Saw II
$4
$80 (four weeks)
9
The Legend of Zorro
$2.4
$42.8 (four weeks)
10
Pride & Prejudice
2.1
$6 (two weeks)
