With a DVD heavy top seller, the Blu-ray market share was down to 9% for the week ending August 22nd, according to Home Media Magazine.

The revenue was middle of the road these days at $13.37M, up fractionally over last year for the same period.

Miley Cyrus vehicle The Last Song from Disney was the top seller for the week, followed by Showtime favourite Dexter: The Fourth Season in 2nd place, closely followed by Clash of the Titans from Warner in 3rd.

Kick-Ass from Lionsgate and Date Night from Fox rounded out the top 5, pushing Avatar to 6th place.

King Kong from Universal made a surprise appearance in 11th place, ahead of recent releases Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief from Fox in 12th and 13th respectively.

The top sellers were lower than typical Blu-ray market share, with The Last Song taking 10% and Dexter: The Fourth Season with 14% on Blu-ray Disc.

A hot selling DVD that failed to make the top 20 Blu-ray chart was Furry Vengeance from Summit, with only 5% market share on Blu-ray Disc.

This no doubt goes a long way to explain the low overall market share for the week.

On the plus side, Clash of the Titans and Kick-Ass sold in the 33%-34% market share range, with Avatar holding strong at 43% Blu-ray Disc market share.

A bit of a slow week for Blu-ray releases is revealed by the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for this week.

New day and date releases are Marmaduke, Harry Brown and Why Did I Get Married Too?.

It is a big week for television releases though, with House: Season Six, The Vampire Diaries: The Complete First Season, Sons of Anarchy: Season Two and NCIS: Los Angeles - The First Season.

Perhaps the highlight for Sam Raimi fans is the release of the original The Evil Dead.

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Amazon has added some new promotions featuring recent Fox and MGM Blu-ray releases.

You can currently save over 62% on Hot Tub Time Machine, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Crazy Heart and Our Family Wedding - all only $14.99.

Also you can get Little Miss Sunshine, The Pink Panther or My Life in Ruins for only $9.99, saving over 71%.

Additionally I see that Sony titles We Own the Night and The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep are discounted 74% to $10.

Some great bargains to be had - no doubt all for a limited time.

Lots of new releases in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week, though few are high profile.

Perhaps the highlight for the week is the release of Lost: The Complete Sixth Season, rounding out the popular series on Blu-ray Disc.

Also on TV we have The Simpsons: The Thirteenth Season, which seems like an unusual choice given that we are 20 seasons in on this show.

The day and date release of Jennifer Lopez in The Back-up Plan is one of the few studio movie releases for the week.

Fans of  Bob Hoskins may want to check out Image Entertainment releases Mona Lisa and The Long Good Friday.

Other British notables from Image include Withnail and I and Time Bandits, though Time Bandits has a 1080i encode for some weird reason.

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While the Blu-ray market share was still in double figures, it was down to 11% for the week ending August 15th, according to Home Media Magazine.

The $14.42M revenue for the week was not a terrible number, however it was down again compared to the same week a year ago.

Date Night from Fox took the top of the chart, ahead of last week’s top seller Kick-Ass from Lionsgate and Clash of the Titans from Warner in 3rd place.

New release Death at a Funeral from Sony Pictures managed 4th place, ahead of Avatar from Fox in 5th position.

Recent Fox releases Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief took 6th place and 11th place on the chart respectively.

Buoyed by  promotional pricing at Amazon, Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series from Universal appeared on the chart in 12th position.

Other sale priced  titles to make the chart included Gangs of New York from Disney in 17th place and Terminator 2: Judgment Day from Lionsgate in 18th place.

Date Night had a fairly decent 20% market share, while the other major new release Death at a Funeral had only 15% Blu-ray market share.

Kick-Ass continues to live up to its name with 41% market share, edged out by Avatar with 42%.

On the other end of the scale, mark up a 10% market share for Diary of a Wimpy Kid and 12% for The Bounty Hunter.

More typical market share is in the 20% range, with Hot Tub Time Machine from MGM at 25%, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at 23% and Warner’s Cop Out at 21% Blu-ray market share for the week.

Kick-Ass propelled the Blu-ray market share to a healthier 14% for the week ending August 8th, according to Home Media Magazine.

Blu-ray revenue was $22.89M for the week, up over 40% compared to last year after two weeks of lagging 2009 figures.

Lionsgate’s Kick-Ass was easily to top seller for the week, ahead of Clash of the Titans from Warner in 2nd place.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid from Fox, Anchor Bay’s The Crazies and Avatar from Fox rounded out the top five on the chart for the week.

New release Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer from Summit took 9th position, ahead of Disney title James and the Giant Peach in 11th place.

Recent release Repo Men from Universal came in 12th place, ahead of another recent release Batman: Under the Red Hood from Warner in 14th position.

Kick-Ass was a very strong seller for Blu-ray Disc with 49% market share, while Diary of a Wimpy Kid was at the other end of the scale with just 12% of sales on Blu-ray Disc.

Other top sellers with strong Blu-ray performance include Clash of the Titans with 36%, Avatar with 42% and Hot Tub Time Machine with 40% Blu-ray Disc market share.

However even these were beaten by bargain priced titles The Crazies with 74% and Brooklyn’s Finest with 60% Blu-ray market share.

Market share for other new releases included The Ghost Writer with 23% and on the TV side  Heroes: Season 4 had 18% market share on Blu-ray Disc.

George Lucas told audiences at Celebration V that the Star Wars saga will hit Blu-ray in Fall 2011.

The collection will feature the six live-action Star Wars films, with Blu-ray quality picture and audio, as well as extensive special features.

As an example, the fans at the convention got to see an unreleased deleted scene from Return of the Jedi.

No doubt Star Wars fans will be thrilled that there are finally plans to release these favourites in high definition.

Quite a few titles of interest in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for this week.

We have a couple of day and date comedy release, with the Steve Carell in Date Night and Niel LaBute’s Death at a Funeral from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

On the catalog side, classic National Lampoon Chevy Chase movies National Lampoon’s Vacation and National Lampoon’s European Vacation hit the shelves today courtesy of Warner Home Video.

The Criterion adds another new title today with the release of Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb and The Weinstein Company has a selection of new Dragon Dynasty titles, including early Jet Li movies Tai Chi Master and The Legend.

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There are quite a few titles of note in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery this week, including the kick ass action film Kick-Ass.

Other Day and Date releases include Heroes: Season 4  and the Sony Pictures foreign language release A Prophet.

There are also a few notable catalog releases, including Sam Mendes directed Road to Perdition, cult classic Piranha, Disney’s animated James and the Giant Peach , eighties classic The Breakfast Club and Elvis documentary movie Elvis on Tour from Warner.

Additionally MGM has a number of their movies being released with DVDs included with titles like Escape from New York, Kalifornia, Bull Durham and Fargo.

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The Blu-ray market share was 12% - back in double figures after a week under 10% for the week ending July 25th according to Home Media Magazine.

While the revenue was a reasonably healthy $13.67M, this was down over 60% compared to the same week last year.

Warner was on top for the week with The Losers in 1st place, and while it was the top DVD, Kevin Smith’s Cop Out came in a close 2nd on the Blu-ray Chart.

Fox also had a decent week with Blu-ray favourite Avatar in 3rd place and Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief in 4th position.

The Bounty Hunter from Sony Pictures rounded out the top 5, ahead of new Sony release The Runaways in 6th.

2001: A Space Odyssey from Warner was pushed to 11th place by heavy discounting.

Art house titles featured in the top 20 chart, with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo from Music Box Films in 15th place and Criterion Collection’s new release The Red Shoes in 19th place.

The top DVD sellers were also strong  Blu-ray sellers. with Cop Out taking 38% market share and The Losers outselling the DVD with 51% of sales on Blu-ray Disc in its first week.

Other top DVD titles were not so hot on Blu-ray, with The Bounty Hunter at 13% and The Runaways with 17% Blu-ray market share.

Avatar had yet another strong week with 43% market share on Blu-ray Disc.