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 Cover Art Gallery for the week of the 28th of February 2010 reveals a few bigger releases this week.

Sony steps it up with no less than two versions of the Roland Emmerich distater movie 2012 and the 2012 2 Disc Edition that also includes a Digital Copy.

Warner has Spike Jonze’s much anticipated adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, again with Digital Copy.

Warner is also releasing a Digibook version of the original Clash of the Titans while Fox has the latest Jared Hess film Gentlemen Broncos, that features Jermaine Clement from Flight of the Conchords.

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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

If you have not heard already, be sure to not operate your ‘fat’ Playstation 3 until advised that it is ok by Sony.

Last night a new bug manifested itself  that renders the old style PS3’s for the most part inoperable.

Sony expects to have a fix soon, and advises that it is best to avoid using the older PS3’s until the fix is available.

The newer slim Playstation 3 units are not affected.

Mostly smaller releases this week in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of the 21st of February 2010.

Directors Richard Kelly and Steven Soderbergh have new films out this week with The Box and The Informant! respectively from Warner Home Video.

On the cult movie side we have the first Troma title Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, and television related titles in the form of Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day and Nurse Jackie: Season 1.

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The Blu-ray market share was only 9% for the week ending February 14th according to Home Media Magazine - the first time it has been single figures this year.

On the other hand, the revenue was a healthy $20.15M for the week.

Top seller for the week was Couples Retreat from Universal, ahead of Zombieland from Sony Pictures in 2nd place.

New release The Time Traveler’s Wife from Warner took 3rd place ahead of strong sellers Michael Jackson’s This Is It from Sony Pictures and Star Trek from Paramount.

New releases A Serious Man from Universal, The Stepfather from Sony and Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic from Anchor Bay placed 12th, 13th and 15th place respectively.

Looking at per title market share, the top sellers were a little lower this week, with Couples Retreat at 19% and The Time Traveler’s Wife at 10% Blu-ray Disc market share, while Zombieland had a healthier 27%.

The Hangover from Warner was also lower than previous weeks with ‘only’ 20% Blu-ray Disc market share.

Top performers were Inglourious Basterds from Universal with 45% market share, and Star Trek with an awesome 56%.

Looking at other new releases, The Stepfather took only 13%, while A Serious Man had 27%  and Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic 34% Blu-ray market share.

Two Top 20 DVD releases that had an adverse effect on the overall market share were The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation DVD Premiere and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Minnie’s Bow-tique, which had no Blu-ray release at all.

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 Disc accounted for 11% of optical disc sales with a healthy revenue of $21.56M for the week ending February 7th, almost double for the same week last year according to Home Media Magazine.

The big seller this week was Zombieland from Sony Pictures, selling over three times the units of the second placed Michael Jackson’s This Is It, also from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

The rest of the top five titles were Planet Hulk from Lionsgate, The Hurt Locker from Summit and Surrogates from Disney.

Magnolia’s Ong Bak 2: The Beginning did surprisingly well to take 6th place, ahead of Up from Disney and Inglourious Basterds from Universal.

New release Amelia from Fox took 14th place on the chart, while the single disc release of The Godfather from Paramount just made the chart in 20th place.

Top selling Zombieland also did well on a per title basis with 31% market share for Blu-ray Disc.

Michael Jackson’s This Is It was a still healthy 19% for Blu-ray Disc, while popular DVD title Love Happens from Universal sold only 7% on Blu-ray Disc.

Ong Bak 2: The Beginning was a big seller for Blu-ray with 43%, while Star Trek from Paramount continues to be a strong Blu-ray title with 47% market share.

Other strong Blu-ray titles included The Hurt Locker with 33% and Inglourious Basterds with 34% Blu-ray Disc market share.

While Planet Hulk also did well with 28% of sales on Blu-ray Disc, new release Amelia had only 11% - perhaps a decent achievement considering the genre.

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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