Rentrak said its Home Video Essentials data showed that Universal...
Rentrak said its Home Video Essentials data showed that Universal’s The Bourne Identity was the #1-rented DVD of 2003, earning $44.72 million. But Rentrak’s top 10 showed that DreamWorks and Disney’s Touchstone division had the most titles in the…
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top 10 -- 3 each. DreamWorks’s were Catch Me If You Can at #2 with $43.90 million, Old School #3, $40.05 million; The Ring #7, $39.36 million. Touchstone’s DVDs were Bringing Down the House #4, $39.97 million; Signs #5, $39.71 million; Sweet Home Alabama, #9, $38.29 million. Rounding out the top 10 were Paramount’s How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days #6 ($39.45 million), HBO’s Big Fat Greek Wedding #8 ($38.76 million), Fox’s Phone Booth #10 ($36.52 million). Separately, Rentrak said preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Jan. 4 showed the top-rented DVD was Columbia TriStar’s S.W.A.T., which -- in its first full week of availability -- earned $13.52 million in rentals. Rentrak said the only other new DVDs in the top 10 were Universal’s unrated version of the comedy American Wedding at #4 ($5.96 million) and Fox’s horror movie The Order at #7 ($5.32 million).