Top 20 wholesale
rental DVD titles, 2002; Australian titles listed in bold
In 2002 rental outlets purchased 3.6 million
wholesale DVD units from distributors at a value of $97.3 million. Of
the titles shipped, The Lord of the Rings: The
Fellowship of the Ring was the top movie when ranked by value.
Rank
Title
Video distributor
Release date
1
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Roadshow
Aug 02
2
Spider-Man
Columbia TriStar
Oct 02
3
Monsters, Inc.
Buena Vista
Sep 02
4
Ice Age
Fox
Oct 02
5
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Warner Bros
Jun 02
6
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of The Clones
Fox
Nov 02
7
Men in Black II
Columbia TriStar
Dec 02
8
The Fast and the Furious
Columbia TriStar
Mar 02
9
Black Hawk Down
Columbia TriStar
Aug 02
10
Ocean’s Eleven
Roadshow
Jun 02
11
American Pie 2
Columbia TriStar
Jun 02
12
Blade 2
Roadshow
Nov 02
13
A Knight’s Tale
Columbia TriStar
Mar 02
14
Panic Room
Columbia TriStar
Oct 02
15
Showtime
Roadshow
Sep 02
16
Driven
Roadshow
Jan 02
17
About a Boy
Universal
Dec 02
18
The One
Columbia TriStar
Jul 02
19
Artificial Intelligence: A.I.
Warner Bros
Mar 02
20
A Beautiful Mind
Universal
Aug 02
Source: Australian Visual Software Distributors
Association (AVSDA).
Notes:
Data represents the number of wholesale sales shipped to rental stores.
It does not rank titles by the number of times rented.
Top wholesale rental video titles:
Titles shipped 2002
