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Thornton's "Lights" shines in video debut
2005-01-22
LOS ANGELES - The Billy Bob Thornton football drama "Friday Night Lights" sold about 1.3 million combined DVD and VHS units to rental and retail stores nationwide Tuesday, its first day in release, according to industry sources.That sales figure bodes well for the Universal Pictures drama based on the true story of an Odessa, Texas, high school's 1998 football season, considering the film's domestic box office take was about $61.2 million. Disney's suspense thriller "The Village" was the best-selling and -renting DVD last week, according to Nielsen VideoScan and Home Media Retailing magazine, respectively. (Video Store magazine, which reports weekly rental revenue statistics for the home video industry, officially changed its name this week to Home Media Retailing magazine.) M. Night Shyamalan's film generated an estimated $11.96 million in consumer rental spending during its first week in release, or roughly 10.5% of its relatively disappointing $114.2 million domestic box office take. The Paramount comedy "Without a Paddle" was the nation's second-best-selling and the third-best-renting home video during the same frame, generating an estimated $7.69 million, or 13.2% of its $58 million-plus domestic box office take in rentals. Meanwhile, Warner's "Troy" dipped from No. 1 to No. 3 on VideoScan's weekly DVD sales chart for the week ending Jan. 16 and generated an estimated $9.10 million during its second week on rental shelves for a 12-day haul of more than $20 million in consumer rental spending. Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
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