Top 20 wholesale
rental DVD titles, 2006; Australian titles listed in bold
In 2006 rental outlets purchased 9.6 million
wholesale DVD units from distributors at a value of $174.9 million.
Of the titles shipped, Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest was the top movie when ranked by value.
Rank
Title
Video distributor
Release date
1
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead
Man’s Chest
Buena Vista
Nov 06
2
The Chronicles of Narnia:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Buena Vista
May 06
3
King Kong
Universal
Apr 06
4
Mr & Mrs Smith
Fox
Jan 06
5
40 Year Old Virgin
Universal
Feb 06
6
Click
Sony
Dec 06
7
Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire
Warner Bros
Mar 06
8
Superman Returns
Warner Bros
Dec 06
9
Mission: Impossible III
Paramount
Nov 06
10
Wedding Crashers
Roadshow
Feb 06
11
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roadshow
Jan 06
12
Inside Man
Universal
Aug 06
13
Cars
Buena Vista
Nov 06
14
You, Me and Dupree
Universal
Nov 06
15
Dukes of Hazzard
Roadshow
Jan 06
16
Over The Hedge
Paramount
Oct 06
17
The Break Up
Universal
Oct 06
18
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Sony
Jan 06
19
Fun With Dick and Jane
Sony
May 06
20
X-Men: The Last Stand
Fox
Oct 06
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.
