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United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending August 26, 2012

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  TitleUnits
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Total
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Spending
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Weeks
1 (1) The Hunger Games 2,435,039 +12% 4,611,094  $41,371,313  $78,342,487 2
2 (2) Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax 217,449 -65% 2,702,498  $4,155,450  $48,217,095 3
3 new The Dictator 128,327   128,327  $1,987,785  $1,987,785 1
4 new NCIS: The Complete Ninth Season 117,612   117,612  $3,878,844  $3,878,844 1
5 (3) Dexter: Season 6 81,817 -71% 368,403  $2,753,960  $9,910,012 48
6 new Revenge: The Complete First Season 69,155   69,155  $1,935,648  $1,935,648 1
7 new Pocahontas 2-Movie Collection 58,928   58,928  $1,061,293  $1,061,293 1
8 (4) Glee: The Complete Third Season 51,866 -58% 176,554  $1,814,791  $5,216,280 2
9 new House M.D.: Season Eight 49,675   49,675  $1,738,128  $1,738,128 1
10 new The Closer: The Complete Seventh Season 46,753   46,753  $1,635,887  $1,635,887 1
11 new Bernie 46,022   46,022  $499,799  $499,799 1
12 new The Rescuers/The Rescuers Down Under 38,717   38,717  $696,519  $696,519 1
13 (-) The Aristocats 38,474 +128,147% 949,118  $889,407  $16,468,485 647
14 (11) The Expendables 36,039 -10% 3,145,649  $252,273  $48,794,090 92
15 (10) Hatfields and McCoys 35,552 -20% 585,192  $709,618  $11,680,432 4
16 (7) Batman Begins 30,194 -41% 4,415,423  $193,459  $47,381,815 358
17 (18) American Reunion 30,161 +3% 910,349  $471,416  $15,947,431 7
18 (14) The Three Stooges 28,490 -23% 884,396  $511,680  $17,523,074 6
19 (5) Community: Season 3 27,272 -64% 103,869  $544,349  $2,073,225 49
20 (20) Project X 26,287 +9% 922,923  $412,180  $13,849,760 10
21 (-) Tigger Movie, The 25,081   117,410  $550,026  $1,511,027 627
22 (16) Marley 20,998 -37% 159,011  $377,754  $2,304,587 3
23 (9) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 20,211 -57% 2,662,565  $282,550  $38,372,878 11
24 (15) Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt 19,967 -43% 168,663  $356,611  $3,012,321 3
25 (13) 21 Jump Street 18,993 -51% 1,665,803  $303,318  $29,091,955 9
26 (6) The Raid: Redemption 18,750 -64% 71,411  $318,562  $1,213,272 2
27 (22) Mirror Mirror 16,962 -18% 1,198,866  $321,600  $20,798,850 9
28 (21) LOL 15,341 -30% 196,804  $213,547  $2,749,847 4
29 (24) Journey 2 Mysterious Island 14,447 -23% 1,297,552  $225,012  $19,593,136 12
30 (17) Wrath of the Titans 14,123 -54% 1,189,296  $191,508  $17,587,991 9

Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on weekly retail surveys, which we use to build a weekly market share estimate for each title we are tracking. The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News.

For example, if our weekly retail survey estimates that a particular title sold 1% of all units that week, and the industry reports sales of 1,500,000 units in total, we will estimate 15,000 units were sold of that title. The consumer spending estimate is based on the average sales price for the title in the retailers we survey.

We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates.

Because sales figures are estimated based on sampling, they will be more accurate for higher-selling titles.