Here are this week’s top videos in rentals and sales:
RENTALS
1. Wedding Crashers
2. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
3. Four Brothers
4. The Cave
5. Must Love Dogs
SALES
1. Wedding Crashers (widescreen Uncorked edition)
2. Wedding Crashers (full screen Uncorked edition)
3. Wedding Crashers
4. The Gospel (Special Edition)
5. The Cave (widescreen)
BILLBOARD ONLINE
Some of this week’s new movie and TV releases on DVD:
Address Unknown
The Aristocrats
Cisco Pike
Codename: Icarus
Crusade of Vengeance (a.k.a. Warrior Angels)
Eavesdropper
Educating Rita
Flightplan
The Fog
Half Past Autumn
Live Freaky! Die Freaky!
Modern Romance
National Lampoon’s Barely Legal
Oliver Twist
Once and Future Queen
Poison Dust
The River King
Soap Girl
Streets of Legend
Thumbsucker
Thunderbolt
The Virgin Spring
Vital
Master of the period piece
James Ivory, with his late partner Ismail Merchant, has made a reputation with classy period pieces. Today’s release of “White Countess” is his latest. Here’s a look at his five top-grossing films (first figure is total domestic gross, second is opening weekend, in millions except as noted):
1
Howards End
$26
$52,568, 1992
2
The Remains of the Day
$23.2
$1.5, 1993
3
A Room With a View
$21
$42,970, 1986
4
Le Divorce
$9.1
$516,834, 2003
5
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
$7.7
$57,959, 1990
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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
Underworld: Evolution
$26.9 (one week)
2
Hoodwinked
$10.4
$28.6 (two weeks)
3
Glory Road
$8.8
$27.7 (two weeks)
4
Last Holiday
$8.7
$26 (two weeks)
5
Brokeback Mountain
$7.8
$42.1 (seven weeks)
6
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
$6.2
$271.9 (seven weeks)
7
Fun With Dick and Jane
$5.8
$101.4 (five weeks)
8
End of the Spear
$4.3 (one week)
9
Hostel
$4.2
$42.7 (three weeks)
10
King Kong
$4.2
$210 (six weeks)
