HARRY POTTER PERFORMS MAGIC ON DVD

The DVD charts looked like Potter’s fields last week as all seven Harry Potter movies managed to make the top 20 on Nielsen Videoscan’s First Alert sales chart for the week. The chart was headed, of course, by last year’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ‹ Part 1. Home Media magazine — this despite […]

GULLIVER A BETTER TRAVELER ABROAD THAN IN U.S.

Gulliver’s Travels has traveled well. The film, which flopped in the U.S. when it opened last weekend and earned only an estimated $9.1 million in its second weekend, was the top-grossing film overseas, despite playing in only 19 countries, most of them — except for the U.K. and India — relatively small. The film earned […]

BOX OFFICE SETS SAIL WITH DAWN TREADER; TOURIST ALSO ABOARD

After spending two weeks in the doldrums, the box office is expected to set sail again with the release of 20th Century Fox’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and the Angelina Jolie/Johnny Depp starrer, The Tourist. Both are expensive productions, although Dawn Treader‘s budget of around $145 million is down […]