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In its first full week available, Warner’s The Last Samurai was t...

In its first full week available, Warner’s The Last Samurai was the #1-rented DVD in the U.S., Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended May 9 showed Thurs. Rentrak said the title earned $7.39 million in…

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the week and $7.49 million to date. Last week’s #1 DVD -- Fox’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World -- dropped to #4, earning an additional $3.43 million for a total of $16.45 million to date. The only other new DVDs in the top 10 were Warner’s Chasing Liberty at #9 ($1.85 million in the week and $1.89 million to date) and Universal’s Peter Pan at #10 ($1.60 million and $1.65 million).