81:19 Nielsen/VideoScan Weekly Sales Numbers

[OokieSpookie]

Rambo Lionsgate
The Eye Lionsgate
Jumper Fox
The Other Boleyn Girl Sony
The Forbidden Kingdom ( Jet Li and Jacky Chan) Lionsgate
The List Fox (Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Disney
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Dreamworks but Spielberg )
Dragonball Z live action (fox)
Bond 22 (MGM/Sony)
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Angels & Demons ( davinci code follow up )

[OokieSpookie]

Originally Posted by richard lichtenfelt

Miramax - No Country for Old Men (blu-ray)
Here is a link to the extended trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/mirama...ldmen/trailer/
Here is a link to some critics reviews from Movie Review Query Engine:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?no+country+for+old+men
So far it has received almost all perfect marks.
Only Sweeney Todd interests me off the hd dvd list.

Sweeny Todd, Beowulf, Iron Man, and the Hulk will all be importable on blu

[bajor27]

SingingTheBlues - that is a pretty heavy red list indeed, and it contains some movies I would like to own (but I guess I won't)

I don't think Indiana would be both or none - It should be considered a spielberg movie, and I don't see him putting it on red. If it does go both, I at least think spielberg would demand an actual blue encoded release and we may have some good comparison stuff.

As an addition, Fox is releasing Wolverine next year. Hopefully we'll see X-men 1 and 2 at that time as well.

[SingingTheBlues]

Guys this list is ONLY for new-release movies. NOT catalog titles.

As we have learned, the new releases are what usually do the big numbers in HD disc sales.

[SingingTheBlues]

Oookie, which of those titles are new release only? I'll update my list. Some of those you listed are not new release movies.

[Bullseye]

Its 65:35 in the USA but overall it must be in the high 70's worldwide. You guys are not seeing the big picture.

If the BDA have stomacks like half of you guys they would have given up ages ago. Its time to knuckle down and buy those BDs.

[OokieSpookie]

Originally Posted by SingingTheBlues

Oookie, which of those titles are new release only? I'll update my list. Some of those you listed are not new release movies.

Every movie I listed is hitting the theater in 2008

[SingingTheBlues]

Originally Posted by OokieSpookie

Every movie I listed is hitting the theater in 2008

Rambo?

[OokieSpookie]

Originally Posted by SingingTheBlues

Rambo?

Yes, the new one that hits in January.

http://rambo-4-trailer.blogspot.com/


(Edit : I should have said "John Rambo" though they keep changing the title)

[SingingTheBlues]

Ok, here's the updated list of NEW RELEASE ONLY movies coming out in 2008:

Please feel free to edit or add if I have missed anything. This is why I feel dual-format players will be for sale next Christmas, and why neither format will "win" anytime soon.:


Universal
American Gangster
Charlie Wilson's War (Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts).
Wanted
The Incredible Hulk
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Mamma Mia!
The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Leatherheads
Forgetting Sarah Marshall



Paramount/Dreamworks
Bee Movie
Beowulf (Int'l distribution available for BR?)
Sweeney Todd (Dreamworks Exclusive dist. in USA only - Warner Int'l distrib.)
1-18-08 (Cloverfield)
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (should come for both formats or not at all)
Kung Fu Panda (animated from Dreamworks)
The Love Guru (Mike Myers new comedy)
Tropic Thunder (Spielberg produced Action Comedy with Ben Stiller)
Iron Man
Madagascar 2
The Crate Escape
Startrek XI

Weinstein
The Mist

New Line
The Golden Compass
Semi-Pro
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo


Warner
Fred Claus
I Am Legend
Get Smart
The Dark Knight
Speed Racer
10,000 B.C.
The Bucket List

Warner International titles
One Missed Call
The 11th Hour
Fool's Gold
Spring Breakdown
Nights In Rodanthe
Where The Wild Things Are
Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince
Trick 'R Treat

Sony
Vantage Point
Hancock
Vantage Point
Bond 22
The Other Boleyn Girl
Step Brothers
You Don't Mess with Zohan (Adam Sandler)
Walk Hard (Columbia - Apatow flick)
Angels & Demons ( davinci code follow up )

Fox/MGM
Hitman
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Wolverine
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The List
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
Starship Dave (Eddie Murphy)
X-Files 2 (films in December, supposed to come out in July at theaters)
Jumper
Horton Hears a Who
Dragonball Z live action

Disney
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Wall-E
No Country for Old Men
Enchanted


Lionsgate
Rambo
The Eye
The Forbidden Kingdom (Jet Li/Jacky Chan)

[foots]

New Line is neutral.

[WickyWoo]

New Line is neutral, but they may as well be Blu since all their new releases will have a 4-6 month lag to HD DVD. The way home video works they may as well not come out at all

[richard lichtenfelt]

Vantage Point (Sony)

Waiting on Aliens movies and Disney classics to push catalog sales to the forefront.

[oldmike]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

New Line is neutral, but they may as well be Blu since all their new releases will have a 4-6 month lag to HD DVD. The way home video works they may as well not come out at all

100% right also Weinstein is no longer even listed on the HD-DVD pages last i looked
think they droped out of HD sales do to bleeding cash

[blu2]

Originally Posted by SingingTheBlues

Ok, here's the updated list of NEW RELEASE ONLY movies coming out in 2008:

Please feel free to edit or add if I have missed anything. This is why I feel dual-format players will be for sale next Christmas, and why neither format will "win" anytime soon.:


Disney
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Wall-E
No Country for Old Men
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Not sure how well it will do, but you are missing Disney's Enchanted.

Anyway, I share your conclusion that there's no obvious advantage on one side or another based on this lineup.

[WriteSimply]

Originally Posted by SingingTheBlues

Ok, here's the updated list of NEW RELEASE ONLY movies coming out in 2008:

Please feel free to edit or add if I have missed anything. This is why I feel dual-format players will be for sale next Christmas, and why neither format will "win" anytime soon.:


Paramount/Dreamworks
Beowulf
Sweeney Todd (Dreamworks Exclusive dist. in USA only)

These are Warner Bros Internationally. So you may get them on Region A via Hongkong, Korea and Japan.

Iron Man

This one belongs to SPHE Japan so that's Region A.


Warner
Fred Claus
I Am Legend
Get Smart
The Dark Knight
Speed Racer
10,000 B.C.
The Bucket List

Warner International titles:
One Missed Call
The 11th Hour
Fool's Gold
Spring Breakdown
Nights In Rodanthe
Where The Wild Things Are
Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince
Trick 'R Treat


fuad

[quetzalcoatl]

You missed Enchanted for Disney.

[thebluemax]

I see a lot of big talk on here, but not enough BD owners are buying Blu-Ray movies, especially PS3 owners. It appears to me that Standalone owners buy more BD's heck I have over 200


I will never go neutral. There is not enough DUD HD movies worth buying and if I really love a Uni or Para***** I'd buy in SD. Besides I don't have shelf space for another player. and I can barely keep up with BD's. I have a ton of BD's to watch.

[Vonscoot]

Originally Posted by sj001

Hmm, it seemed to be sold out in many more locations than Spidey 3, and maintained a higher number on Amazon for a much longer time. We shall see obviously, but I think it did really well.

Rat on DVD did so bad that WM was allowed to return all overstock discs 3 days after the movie came out... normally we have to wait 2 weeks to send back overstock new releases.

[TheSentinel]

Originally Posted by thebluemax

I see a lot of big talk on here, but not enough BD owners are buying Blu-Ray movies, especially PS3 owners. It appears to me that Standalone owners buy more BD's heck I have over 200

Hey, after about 3 months of owning a PS3 and much wallet emptyness I'd say i'm not doing too bad, 26 titles in my library with 5 more on the way. 2 of which are box sets of movies and 1 season. Just a bit late to the party is all .