Oscar winners and nominees battled for supremacy as new arrival “Lincoln” bested “Les Miserables” to take the top sales slot, and returning “Argo” was the No. 1 rental title over “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Skyfall,” according to the tracking firm Rentrak.
New releases ruled the sales market, with “The Hobbit,” “Les Miserables” and “Zero Dark Thirty” knocking last week’s “Rise of the Guardians” off its roost. But holdover “Argo†claimed top spot on the rental chart. Here are the top-selling and top-renting titles for the week ending March 23 and March 24, respectively, according to Rentrak.
British actor Richard Griffiths, best known for playing muggle Uncle Vernon Dursley in the “Harry Potter” movies , has died.
HONG KONG — Hong Kong-born, London-raised Roger Garcia continues his role as the executive director of the 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival. We talked with him about this year’s event, which continues through April 2.
In greenlighting Antoine Fuqua’s ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ and Roland Emmerich’s ‘White House Down,’ studios just couldn’t resist the drama of an attack on the president’s residence. When veteran filmmaker Roland Emmerich was first offered the chance to direct a movie about terrorists taking over the White House, he couldn’t believe his luck.
Disney’s animated box-office hit “Wreck-It Ralph†knocked “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2†off the top of the DVD and Blu-ray sales chart but left its reign over the rentals market intact. Here are the top titles for sales (week ending March 9) and rentals (week ending March 10), according to Rentrak.
Relyea worked on several Steve McQueen movies , including ‘Bullitt’ and ‘The Great Escape.’ At MGM/UA, he oversaw production of ‘Get Shorty,’ ‘Legally Blonde’ and some James Bond films.
As far as decades go, the 1950s are sometimes characterized as a boring time when nothing of significance really happened. But you wouldn’t know it by these two exemplary films with new DVD releases to boast about.
“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2” cast members, from left, Judith Shekoni, Tracey Heggins, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Christian Camargo, Peter Facinelli and Casey LaBow in a scene from the film.