Looking at the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for this week I see a lot of new titles.

New studio releases include the comedy Hot Tub Time Machine and the fantasy movie Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.

Fox has a new ‘Ultimate Hunter Edition’ for Predator, Sony Classics has The White Ribbon and Anchor Bay has the recent horror release The Crazies.

Criterion also has a couple of new releases today with Everlasting Moments and The Leopard, and Magnolia continues its independent releases with The Eclipse and the Jet Li film The Warlords.

One the documentary side we get a new BBC series How the Earth Changed History and National Geographic’s A Traveler’s Guide to the Planets.

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With few new releases for the week, the Blu-ray market share was 12% and the revenue was $15.77M for the week ending April 18th, according to Home Media Magazine.

The top seller for the week was Sherlock Holmes from Warner, selling roughly double the second placed The Hurt Locker from Summit.

The top five featured Toy Story from Disney, The Blind Side from Warner and The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy from Warner.

Toy Story 2 from Disney followed up in 6th place.

Apollo 13 from Universal was the best selling new release in 7th place, while Pirate Radio, also from Universal, had to settle for 15th position.

Sherlock Holmes continues to have a strong 28% Blu-ray Disc market share, while Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel from Fox is considerably lower at 12%.

The big winner for the week was The Hurt Locker with 51% market share for Blu-ray Disc, while new release Pirate Radio had a pretty decent 21% Blu-ray Disc market share.

Titles right around 30% market share include 2012 from Sony and Fantastic Mr. Fox from Fox Home Entertainment.

Quite a number of DVD’s made the top 20 chart that had no Blu-ray counterparts, including Robots from Fox, The Great Mouse Detective from Disney and Dora the Explorer: Pirate Adventure from Paramount.

While the Blu-ray market share was a fairly healthy 13%, the revenue of $18.57M for the week ending April 11th was down compared to the same time last year for the first time ‘on record’, according to Home Media Magazine.

While the Blu-ray revenues were a little over 5% down compared to 2009, DVD revenues were down closer to 60%.

The much anticipated The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy from Warner was the top selling Blu-ray title, ahead of Sherlock Holmes, also from Warner, in 2nd place.

In fact the Blu-ray release of Peter Jackson’s trilogy ranked 5th place in DVD sales for the week.

The top 5 was rounded out by The Blind Side from Warner,  Toy Story from Disney and the new release Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans from First Look Home Entertainment.

As well as taking all of the top 3 Warner’s The Lord of the Rings original animated version took 10th place in the chart.

Lastly the new catalog release The Thomas Crown Affair from Fox just squeaked into the chart in 20th position.

Sherlock Holmes continues to sell well on Blu-ray Disc with 30% market share on Blu-ray Disc, while Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel is down at 9%.

In the middle we have The Blind Side, New Moon from Summit and The Princess and The Frog from Disney at 14% Blu-ray Disc market share.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans had a healthy 29% Blu-ray Disc market share, as did 2012 from Sony Pictures with 28%.

The Lord of the Rings: Original Animated Classic had a 45% market share on Blu-ray Disc, while The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy was credited at 100% on Blu-ray Disc for the week.

The Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery this week features a title that many have been eagerly awaiting - The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy.

Keep in mind that these are the theatrical versions of the movie, so if you want the extended editions, your wait isn’t over yet.

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The Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of the 14th of March 2010 reveals some new titles that will sell bulk on DVD but may have a harder time on Blu-ray Disc.

Top seller right now is teen fantasy flick New Moon (note that this streets March 20th), followed closely by Disney’s animated family title The Princess and the Frog.

Alternatively we have art house films in the form of Broken Embraces from Sony, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and Paris from MPI and Wonderful World from Magnolia.

On the Television side we have Breaking Bad: The Complete First Season and Breaking Bad: The Complete Second Season as well as South Park: The Complete Thirteenth Season.

It will be interesting to see how the week plays out from a market share and revenue perspective…

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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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Amazon has reduced the pricing on a number of First Look Pictures titles to under $10, with many at $6.99.

Perhaps the best deal money-wise is the Lindsay Lohan movie Labor Pains which has been reduced over 76% from retail to $6.99.

Titles at $6.99 include the Academy Award winning Monster, Dog Soldiers, Immortal  and The Proposition.

Other big reductions are Priceless for $7.99 saving 77% and Trans-Siberian for $9.99 saving over 70% off retail.

Sukiyaki Western Django is also only $7.99 and festive folks with a spare $5 might be interested in the Virtual Fireplace: Home for Christmas disc.

Certainly a good chance for some independent titles at a great price.

Amazon continues to beef up its list of heavily discounted titles, adding a few more $9.99 titles.

Recent additions to the list include Run, Fatboy, Run, P.S. I Love You and Music and Lyrics.

The surprising thing about this is the discount - these titles are reduced over 70% from the retail prices.

See more $9.99 titles at over 70% off after the break:

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Cover Art Gallery for the week of the 1st of November 2009

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Amazon has some heavily discounted Blu-ray Disc titles right now, including quite a number for only $10.

Discounted over 70% are the First Look Pictures Blu-ray titles Trans-Siberian and War, Inc., now only $9.99.

Also look for The Descent at 2/3 off retail - also $9.99.

This selection of $9.99 Warner titles including A Scanner Darkly, Enter the Dragon and Space Cowboys are over 65% off retail.

See more $9.99 titles after the break.

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