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United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending August 5, 2012

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  TitleUnits
this
Week
%
Change
Total
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
1 new Hatfields and McCoys 395,917   395,917  $7,902,503  $7,902,503 1
2 (1) The Three Stooges 134,889 -35% 762,998  $2,730,153  $15,267,209 3
3 new LOL 114,618   114,618  $1,600,067  $1,600,067 1
4 (4) The Dark Knight 112,272 +11% 17,244,714  $739,401  $260,152,176 191
5 (3) American Reunion 96,525 -13% 808,749  $1,757,720  $14,208,413 4
6 (5) 21 Jump Street 89,715 -12% 1,561,871  $1,611,281  $27,340,874 6
7 (6) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 87,696 -2% 2,552,759  $1,288,254  $37,031,669 8
8 (2) Batman Begins 85,993 -31% 4,275,360  $608,014  $46,450,934 355
9 (-) The Expendables 84,489 +7,680% 3,030,469  $716,467  $47,870,409 89
10 (7) Wrath of the Titans 62,119 -17% 1,112,492  $918,740  $16,637,544 6
11 (12) Mirror Mirror 53,132 -16% 1,131,532  $1,005,257  $19,516,390 6
12 (17) Safe House 50,184 +1% 1,270,670  $732,185  $21,849,666 9
13 (-) Ice Age: The Meltdown 48,981 +25,148% 8,177,980  $419,272  $132,865,864 298
14 (24) Journey 2 Mysterious Island 47,233 +59% 1,251,339  $707,220  $18,970,844 9
15 (14) Project X 44,835 -22% 849,316  $717,808  $12,824,260 7
16 (-) Despicable Me 44,145 +11,767% 8,109,050  $471,910  $138,806,355 86
17 (13) Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 42,046 -33% 5,695,755  $643,325  $93,915,104 145
18 (8) Lockout 40,186 -44% 239,490  $777,599  $4,373,231 3
19 (15) Casa de Mi Padre 35,146 -33% 183,042  $525,784  $2,446,964 3
20 (21) Rio 30,050 -14% 3,685,395  $412,887  $52,238,943 53
21 (16) Get the Gringo 28,902 -45% 210,734  $432,374  $3,158,036 3
22 (20) Friends with Kids 28,420 -21% 137,944  $427,153  $2,118,763 3
23 (9) Men in Black 27,820 -61% 393,419  $289,169  $6,719,340 772
24 (11) Silent House 27,120 -58% 91,404  $542,129  $1,634,314 2
25 (22) Big Miracle 25,699 -22% 458,356  $384,457  $8,131,743 7
26 (-) Total Recall 23,399   23,399  $142,345  $142,345 790
27 (29) Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol 22,013 +17% 1,497,848  $241,042  $21,705,511 16
28 (23) Act of Valor 21,975 -31% 1,236,655  $397,528  $21,779,080 9
29 (-) Bourne Trilogy, The 21,063   117,648  $420,417  $420,417 243
30 (25) John Carter 20,381 -30% 1,059,463  $366,858  $18,470,438 9

Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on weekly retail surveys, which we use to build a weekly market share estimate for each title we are tracking. The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News.

For example, if our weekly retail survey estimates that a particular title sold 1% of all units that week, and the industry reports sales of 1,500,000 units in total, we will estimate 15,000 units were sold of that title. The consumer spending estimate is based on the average sales price for the title in the retailers we survey.

We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates.

Because sales figures are estimated based on sampling, they will be more accurate for higher-selling titles.