

You don't spend nearly $200 million on a movie unless you think it will be a monster hit. Jack the Giant Slayer was thought to be a potential monster hit at the box office. Home Market Numbers: Jack Slays the Home Market It was only a midlevel hit at the box office, so this opening is on par with expectations, given the current state of the overall DVD market. None were major hits, but at least The Call earned first place with 225,000 units / $3.88 million during its first week of release. There was a quartet of new releases spread throughout the June 30th, 2013 edition of the DVD sales chart. That said, Jack the Giant Killer remained in first place with 90,000 units / $2.24 million over the week for a total of 313,000 units / $7.40 million after two.

There were only three new releases to chart on the June 30th, 2013 edition of the Blu-ray sales chart, but all three of them reached the top ten. Despicable Me rose to first place with 196,000 units / $2.19 million for the week for totals of 8.96 million units / $147.10 million.īlu-ray Sales: Holdovers Slay New Releases The new releases were terrible this week with only two of them reaching the top 30 and none of them reached the top 5 on the July 7th, 2013 DVD sales chart. This puts it just outside of the top 20 on the All-Time Blu-ray Chart, and it has already made it there as of the writing of this column. Leading the way was Despicable Me with 88,000 units / $1.23 million for the week and 2.35 million units / $58.37 million after more than two-and-a-half years of release. New releases were even worse on the July 7th, 2013 edition of the Blu-ray sales chart than they were on the DVD sales chart. New Line Cinema, Legendary Pictures, Original Film, Big Kid Pictures, Bad Hat Harry Productions, Bryan Singerīlu-ray Sales: Despicable Has Virtuous Result Prince/Princess, Rescue, Giants, Visual Effects, 3-D, Motion Capture Performance, IMAX: DMR, Filmed in Puzzlewood, Gloucestershire, England, Filmed in Gloucestershire, England, Filmed in England, Filmed in United Kingdom PG-13 for intense scenes of fantasy action violence, some frightening images and brief language. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend.and gets the chance to become a legend himself.

Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack, into the battle of his life to stop them. An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
