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James Cameron’s “Avatar”, both Dvds and Blu-ray Discs were sold out Thursday, the movie’s first day in stores though it was only accessible in the 2D format.
It was early estimated that the overall disc sales of Avatar would reach 4 million units and would be likely to become the year’s top-selling release so far. Due to the super popularity of Avatar especially the Blu-ray versions, many software vendors are trying to provide more professional Blu-ray rippers for the drastically larger demand all over the world especially in North America.
Blu-ray sales — at 1.5 million copies — well outpaced first-day sales of previous high-definition top dog “The Dark Knight.”
Retailers sold out of 60% of their Blu-ray inventory on average, said a spokesman for distributor 20th Century Fox. He declined to specify unit shipments. Mass merchants moved out roughly 50% of their “Avatar” DVDs, the spokesman added.
Due to the epic’s ecological theme, Fox broke with the industry’s Tuesday release date norm and scheduled the release to coincide with Earth Day. Cameron and others connected to the film have been participating in a host of green-themed events as part of the movie’s home-entertainment campaign.
A 3D version of the picture is expected to hit Blu-ray Disc early next year. Fox and the filmmakers wanted to wait until a greater number of homes were equipped with 3D Blu-ray players. Though 3D-enabled players only recently became available, virtually all new Blu-ray players will boast that capability by year’s end. The first DVDs lack even special features of the sort typically included on disc releases. A special edition release is expected to hit stores in November and will include extensive bonus features.
Despite the lean-and-mean nature of the release, Fox figures “Avatar” eventually will surpass “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” as the year’s best-selling disc. “New Moon” moved 4 million units in its first two days — after launching on a Friday, at midnight — and has sold 6.5 million copies On Dvd and Blu-ray to date.
Many Best Buy locations and other retailers stayed open until midnight Wednesday to allow witching-hour early birds to flock to stores and snatch the first “Avatar” discs.
Four days after its release on DVD, “Avatar” is on track to become as big a movie phenomenon in home entertainment as it was in theaters.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment said on Sunday that it sold 6.7 million DVD and Blu-ray units of the film in the United States and Canada since the discs were released on Thursday.
That amounts to gross sales of $130 million, making the film from the studio division of News Corp. the No. 1 home entertainment opening ever over a four-day period.
The previous record holder for a similar stretch had been “The Dark Knight,” which came out in 2008.
Fox said 2.7 million of its disc sales for “Avatar” came on Blu-ray, which is a newer technology that has a higher image quality than DVD but requires its own special player.
Director James Cameron’s 3-D fantasy adventure become the No. 1 film ever at worldwide box offices after opening on December 18. “Avatar” made $2.7 billion, and beat the record set by Cameron’s 1997 “Titanic.”
The film is about a soldier who infiltrates a tribe of space aliens on a distant moon, falls in love with a princess from the tribe and leads a rebellion against the human invaders who sent him on the mission.
Fox released the film on DVD and Blu-ray on Thursday to coincide with Earth Day, saying the timing dovetailed with “Avatar’s” theme of guarding the environment. As the growing popularity of Blu-ray and Blu-ray related products, more and more people, I guess, are tending to turn to this newborn thing.
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