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United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending December 16, 2012

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Week		%
Change		Total
Units		Spending
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Week		Total
Spending		Weeks
1 new Ted 1,667,019   1,667,019  $27,905,898  $27,905,898 1
2 (1) The Dark Knight Rises 825,841 -59% 2,853,055  $11,941,661  $38,295,443 2
3 new Ice Age: Continental Drift 653,972   653,972  $10,901,713  $10,901,713 1
4 new The Bourne Legacy 562,452   562,452  $9,983,523  $9,983,523 1
5 (2) Brave 352,074 -31% 5,195,886  $6,164,886  $89,476,628 5
6 (7) Elf 210,878 +6% 5,031,479  $1,817,157  $48,714,287 422
7 (3) Men in Black 3 182,205 -60% 1,005,199  $3,507,446  $17,784,446 3
8 (16) Magic Mike 182,038 +41% 1,810,249  $1,636,522  $24,871,634 8
9 (4) The Odd Life of Timothy Green 164,868 -55% 530,983  $2,895,082  $9,225,210 2
10 (12) A Christmas Story 164,535 +14% 2,803,706  $1,365,229  $32,627,111 638
11 (15) The Polar Express 156,366 +18% 6,345,737  $1,476,971  $72,533,950 364
12 (9) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 152,532 +3% 4,283,654  $1,308,603  $51,298,417 787
13 (13) The Avengers 147,698 +5% 4,414,579  $2,906,697  $82,093,220 12
14 (5) The Dark Knight Trilogy 143,197 -57% 472,619  $3,717,394  $12,269,189 2
15 (19) The Hunger Games 138,363 +12% 7,094,528  $1,456,962  $118,876,428 18
16 (11) The Expendables 2 134,695 -8% 881,195  $1,990,792  $13,655,510 4
17 (17) Secret of the Wings 122,359 -5% 2,129,167  $2,162,084  $40,164,883 8
18 (14) The Amazing Spider-Man 105,022 -22% 1,545,497  $1,842,086  $27,713,017 6
19 (20) Madagascar 3: Europes's Most Wanted 101,521 -16% 2,777,518  $1,086,275  $46,047,904 9
20 (22) Lawless 101,120 -9% 428,441  $1,081,984  $6,884,497 3
21 (21) Cinderella 96,687 -17% 663,008  $4,382,822  $28,205,176 376
22 (8) Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax 88,685 -54% 5,009,049  $1,204,342  $75,531,326 19
23 (23) Mary Poppins 84,318 -12% 1,535,141  $1,630,575  $28,662,618 769
24 (28) The Lucky One 81,612 +14% 1,445,542  $605,561  $17,871,747 16
25 (6) Hope Springs 77,777 -72% 359,357  $1,511,207  $6,376,909 2
26 (24) Horton Hears a Who! 73,184 -22% 5,050,124  $291,404  $76,746,407 210
27 (26) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 72,210 -13% 3,526,515  $432,538  $45,458,709 27
28 (-) Home Alone 70,306 +115% 3,416,842  $529,622  $42,872,476 689
29 (10) ParaNorman 69,141 -53% 529,670  $1,380,054  $9,778,869 3
30 (30) Despicable Me 68,846 +3% 8,786,342  $687,772  $145,065,819 105

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.