Source: The Hollywood Reporter
The United Kingdom will have to throw out the current DVD first week record holder because there is a new sheriff…er, pirate in town. “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” has squashed the previous U.K. DVD sales records to become the fastest-selling DVD of 2006. It went on sale November 20, and sold just shy of 1.5 million copies in its first week of release, accounting for one in four DVDs purchased in the U.K. this past week.
Disney Pictures has been forced to order up another one million copies just to meet demand. They are expecting even greater sales on December 5th, next week, when the DVD is ready for sale in the United States.
Before Pirates 2, the previous record holder in the UK for a first week entry in 2006 was “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” which set a record at 1.4 million DVDs sold. The king of all sales however is still James Cameron’s “Titanic” with 2.2 million in one week to its credit.
Disney said that if sales continue as they are, the DVD could sell up to three million copies by the end of the year.
I commented on this on another item . . . on how incredible it is to me others humans could hold so diametrically opposite views from my own, and how I am no longer surprised by it.
Then this comes along, and I am left in a state of total shock . . . I never before realized the depth of the problem.
Just kidding, of course, as tastes differ; still, to call this a great movie seems a bit of a stretch. And I never did get the attraction of Depp and his portrayal of Captain Jack. For me it tainted the good image of fierce pirates, turning them into effeminate caricatures.
Yellowbeard; there was a movie capturing the fierce and ruthless nature of pirates.