The Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of the 7th of March 2010 features the first Paramount title in a little while - Up in the Air is a great little film and well worth a look.

Other day and date titles for today from Sony and Disney both include DVD and Digital Copy, though neither Planet 51 nor Old Dogs were well received by the critics.

On the more dramatic side, Lionsgate has Precious and The Stoning of Soraya M., while Sony goes with a family movie Hachi: A Dog’s Tale and ultraviolence with The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day.

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The Blu-ray market share was back up to 13% on a revenue of $20.96M for the week ending February 28th, according to Home Media Magazine.

While it was good to see double figure market share and revenue over $20M, it was a bit of a strange week, perhaps with significant sales promotions for certain titles.

Law Abiding Citizen from Anchor Bay was again in 1st place, ahead of Pixar’s Up in 2nd place - and hint that promotional pricing was in play.

The best selling new title was Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths from Warner in 3rd place, ahead of Star Trek from Paramount and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian from Fox in 4th and 5th.

Other new titles didn’t fare quite as well, with The Informant! from Warner in 10th place,  Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant from Universal in 12th place, and The Box from Warner down in 15th position.

Looking at per title market share, we see almost the exact opposite of last week.

Top selling Law Abiding Citizen had a strong 41% Blu-ray Disc market share while Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths also performed well with 29% share.

New Warner titles The Informant! and The Box sold19% and 18% on Blu-ray Disc respectively, while Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant had 21% share.

Strong signs of promotional pricing were evident with a number of titles outselling their DVD counterparts.

Up had 55% market share, Star Trek an amazing 77% market share, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian had 68% and Inglourious Basterds from Universal squeaked in with 52% Blu-ray share.

I was a little surprised that Everybody’s Fine from Disney/Miramax didn’t get a Blu-ray Disc release, so no market share for that title at all.

The Blu-ray market share was at a 2010 low of 8% and the for the week ending February 21st, according to Home Media Magazine.

On the other hand the weekly revenue was still a fairly healthy $18.58M - up from last year and not bad for a week with no big releases.

The top sellers for the week were new releases - Law Abiding Citizen from Anchor Bay, followed by Halo Legends from Warner in 2nd place.

Recent releases Couples Retreat from Universal, Zombieland from Sony Pictures and last year’s Up from Disney filled out the top 5 on the chart.

The market share by title list shows why the market share was so low.

While Law Abiding Citizen managed a healthy 28% market share on Blu-ray Disc, other typically strongBlu-ray titles did quite poorly, like Up with 4%, The Hangover with 3% and Star Trek from Paramount with only 9% market share on Blu-ray Disc.

It seems likely that promotional DVD pricing helped skew these titles strongly towards DVD for the week.

Halo Legends and The Hurt Locker from Summit market share were in the 30% to 31%, which is more in line with my expectations.

Zombieland also continues to have a solid 29% market share on Blu-ray Disc

The Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of the 14th of February doesn’t have much for fans of block busters, but has a lot of those of more discerning tastes.

Lionsgate is releasing the first of their Studio Canal Collection on Blu-ray Disc, opening with French film Contempt, dark comedy The Ladykillers, as well as Akira Kurosawa’s Ran.

Not to be outdone, Criterion also has a selection of releases including Hunger,Revanche and Lola Montes.

Sony also has a foreign title with Coco Before Chanel , featuring Audrey Tautou ofAmelie and Da Vinci Code fame, while Warner has a cost down version of theDirty Harry Collection.

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Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of the 7th of February 2010 reveals a number of catalog titles from Lionsgate including Arnold in The Running Man, along with fresh titles from Universal in the form of Couples Retreat and A Serious Man.

Maybe someone can get A Serious Man, watch it and explain it to me…!

Warner is also releasing The Time Traveler’s Wife while Magnolia also has a couple of new titles - the comedy Serious Moonlight and the British film Bronson.

Stargate fans are also treated to a Blu-ray release of SGU Stargate Universe: Season One.

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The Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of the 31st of January 2010 reveals a lot of releases, though many of them are pretty basic titles from Anchor Bay.

New Day and Date titles include Zombieland and Amelia, while catalog titles include The Last King of Scotland, Walk the Line, Mystic River and individual releases for The Godfather and The Godfather Part II.

BBC SciFi fans will flip over the range of Dr Who titles, including Doctor Who: The Waters Of Mars, Doctor Who: The End Of Time and the whole shooting match in Doctor Who: The Complete Specials.

Warner also released less expensive ‘regular’ editions of Gone with the Wind and Bonnie and Clyde, along with The Music Man.

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Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of the 17th of January 2010 - not a lot of stunning releases this week.

Perhaps of most note is the The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum releases on flipper discs with DVDs stuck on the top of the Blu-ray Discs.

Lionsgate has Weeds: Season Five and the movie Gamer that comes with a Digital Copy.

Warner also has a pair of day and date releases today with The Invention of Lying and Whiteout, while Universal is also releasing Smokin’ Aces along with the direct to video Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball.

Criterion Collection has a new release today too with Steven Soderbergh’s biopic Che, with both parts 1 and 2 included in the package.

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Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of the 20th of December 2009 - some nice releases this week including District 9, (500) Days Of Summer, Mike Judge’s latest movie Extract and the guitar documentary It Might Get Loud.

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Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of the 6th of December 2009

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Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of the 29th of November 2009

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