Disc market share for week ending in 2024-01-20: Trolls Band Together to take down Oppenheimer from the #1 spot. As usual, DVD has a bigger market share than Blu-ray and UHD combined.
Disc market share for week ending in 2024-01-20: Trolls Band Together to take down Oppenheimer from the #1 spot. As usual, DVD has a bigger market share than Blu-ray and UHD combined.
Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs
- Trolls Band Together
- Oppenheimer
- Five Nights at Freddy's
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- The Expendables 4
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- Journey to Bethlehem
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One
- The Raid: Redemption
- The Equalizer 3
- Barbie
- John Wick: Chapter 4
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- The Mandalorian: The Complete First Season
- Saw X
- The Mandalorian: The Complete Second Season
- Thor: Love and Thunder
Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs
- Oppenheimer
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Trolls Band Together
- The Raid: Redemption
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Thor: Love and Thunder
- The Fifth Element
- The Expendables 4
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Titanic
- Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
- The Equalizer 3
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie
- Army of Darkness
- Lone Star
- Blade Runner 2049
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
- Lightyear
- John Wick: Chapter 4
Source: MediaPlayNews.com
When I saw “Trolls Band Together to take down Oppenheimer” for a moment I thought it meant a bunch of internet trolls wanted Oppenheimer out of first place and worked together to make that happen.
You'll notice that on this list, there are some films here that flopped at the box office, if not outright bombed, such as Expend4bles, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Mission: Inpossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Since they're all in the top 20 selling Blu-ray/UHD list, it is safe to assume that these movies eventually made back their budgets. Box office performance isn't the end-all be-all!
(DISCLAIMER: I am not a fan of any of these movies; I have only watched Quantumania, which was cringe.)
I've not seen Expend4bles but the others were alright, definitely not awful and they all part of franchises, so it may be the kind of people who buy home video are the ones who want to complete the set, over them being that stoked to own them.
Since they’re all in the top 20 selling Blu-ray/UHD list, it is safe to assume that these movies eventually made back their budgets.
That would be true back in the day when they sold truckloads of DVDs but these days the numbers sold are a fraction of that and even with the higher price of the premium formats (and extra cost of special editions), it might be this isn't helping the bottom line as much as it did. I wouldn't be surprised if streaming brought in more cash but I'd want to see the numbers.
Until recently, studios could afford to churn out movies with heart-pumping action scenes featuring pricey special effects and high-salary actors. Although many of those movies cost more than they garnered in ticket sales, Hollywood could count on overall strong sales of DVDs to make up for excessive expenses.
"The DVD buying boom covered up a lot of sins in the middle part of the last decade," said Tom Adams, principal analyst and director of U.S. media for IHS Screen Digest.
But the curtain is falling on the DVD era. IHS said U.S. video disc sales fell from $10.3 billion in 2004 to $7 billion last year.
The popularity of low-cost rental options, such as Netflix and Redbox, along with the ease of piracy, has cut into DVD sales, making it tougher to profit from the movie business. Blu-ray disc sales and gains in digital purchases haven't made up for the shortfall.
Hollywood economics have been strained by movie budgets that have been rising steadily over the past couple of decades. To cut costs, some studios have dropped smaller budget movies with big-name, expensive actors, but kept making summer blockbusters based on franchises such as superheroes.
That trend has increased the average cost of major studio movies to $78 million in 2011 from about $42 million in 1995, according to Bruce Nash, the founder and president of Nash Information Services LLC, which operates The-Numbers.com
Fewer small movies means that each big-budget project has more pressure to deliver. Nash believes Hollywood will rely on tried-and-true material — sequels and reboots — rather than take a chance on untested pricey projects that follow in the footsteps of "Avatar."
"Studios are willing to spend money for well-established franchises," Nash said. "There's not that much enthusiasm in completely new franchises built from scratch."
The average cost of a movie from the major studios is now $100M or more. Although that might plateau a bit - I suspect it'll be a while before we see someone throwing $400-500M at a film (as they did for the Star Wars prequels or, bizarrely Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and PotC: On Stranger Tides) with Avatar leading the big budget blockbusters for now (although the sequel wasn't great, the franchise is popular enough to get bums on seats).