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In its first full week available, Mel Gibson’s controversial The ...

In its first full week available, Mel Gibson’s controversial The Passion of the Christ was the top- rented DVD in the U.S., Rentrak said its preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Sept. 5 showed. Rentrak said…

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the movie, released by Fox on home video, earned $6.65 million in the week on DVD, for $6.72 million to date. The only other new top 10 DVD was Paramount’s Twisted, in a tie at #2, which earned $4.8 million in the week and $4.88 million to date. Also earning $4.8 million in the week was last week’s #1-rented DVD, Warner’s Taking Lives ($17.36 million to date).