Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending October 11, 2009
For the second straight week the animated movie Monsters vs. Aliens topped all DVD sales. Year One was the most rented movie last week. The Jack Black comedy knocked Matthew McConaughey's Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past from the top slot, which was held for two weeks. Below is the list of DVD sales and rentals for the week ending October 11, 2009:
Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs:
1 Monsters Vs. Aliens (DreamWorks)
2 Year One (Sony)
3 Bones: Season 4 (FOX)
4 Ginormous Double Pack: M...
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Dean Devlin and I are still set to make a sequel likely because we’ve found some sort of idea and we approached FOX and FOX has not quite figured o...