It's a bad time for going out to the movies. Last weekend's number one theatrical release only made $9 million. Audiences are staying home this month to watch DVDs instead, and with the fall television season approaching everyone's catching up on "Lost".
The Hollywood Reporter says that "Lost: The Complete Second Season" was the top selling DVD last week. "Lost" is only the second TV-DVD set to ever snag the number one sales spot. The first was "Chappelle's Show: Season 2 Uncensored" which debuted at number one last year after selling nearly 500,000 copies.
United 93 came in second place, but it beat out "Lost" and everyone else on the rental charts where it came in at number one with $8.27 million in rentals according to Box Office Mojo. For those keeping track, that's nearly as much as the number one theatrical release made last week, just in rentals alone.
"Lost" didn't fare nearly as well in the rental realm, only managing to come in 17th there. That makes sense really. The set is nearly 30 hours of viewing in one package, and that's the sort of thing you want to buy and watch over a period of several weeks rather than rushing to finish before Blockbuster's due date creeps up.
