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With Halloween right around the corner, it’s no surprise that scary movies are dominating the national home video sales chart for the week ending Oct. 27.
At the top: Warner Home Video’s The Conjuring, about paranormal investigators who work to help a family terrorized by dark spirits in their Rhode Island farmhouse. The critically hailed film, which grossed $137.4 million in theaters — a high take for a horror film — debuted at No. 1 on both the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert chart, which tracks overall disc sales, DVD and Blu-ray Disc combined, and Nielsen’s dedicated Blu-ray Disc sales chart.
The Conjuring is based on the paranormal investigating team of Ed and Lorraine Warren, whose reports inspired The Amityville Horror, a 1977 best-seller that inspired 10 movies between 1979 and 2011.
Of its first-week sales, 33 percent were on Blu-ray Disc, according to Nielsen research.
The Conjuring bumped the previous week’s best-sellers to No. 2: Twentieth Century Fox’s The Heat, on First Alert, and the Guillermo del Toro creature film Pacific Rim, on the Blu-ray Disc sales charts.
Rounding out the top five on First Alert were Pacific Rim at No. 3, down from No. 2 the previous week; the 20th Century Fox comedy The Internship — a Vince Vaughn–Owen Wilson pairing that earned a disappointing $44.7 million in theaters — at No. 4; and DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods at No. 5, down from No. 3 the prior week.
The Internship is a new release that finds Vaughn and Wilson as downsized-out salesmen who wind up with internships at Google, along with a horde of brainy college students. The duo’s last joint venture was 2005’s The Wedding Crashers, which grossed a whopping $209.3 million in U.S. theaters.
On the Blu-ray Disc sales chart, the other top five sellers, after The Conjuring and Pacific Rim, are The Heat at No. 3 (down from No. 2 the previous week), Walt Disney Studios’ The Little Mermaid at No. 4 (down from No. 3) and The Internship at No. 5.
On Home Media Magazine’s rental chart for the week, the top five remain unchanged from the previous week: After Earth at No. 1 and This Is the End at No. 2, both from Sony Pictures, followed at No. 3 by the Lionsgate live comedy film Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain. Disney’s Iron Man 3 is at No. 4, with Paramount’s World War Z at No. 5.
After Earth and This Is the End have held down the two top rental spots on Home Media Magazine’s weekly chart for three consecutive weeks.
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