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United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending May 16, 2010

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  TitleUnits
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1 new Legion 401,191   401,191  $7,209,402  $7,209,402 1
2 (1) Avatar 394,812 -32% 6,703,198  $7,374,970  $114,465,465 4
3 new Edge of Darkness 301,295   301,295  $5,119,002  $5,119,002 1
4 new Daybreakers 265,990   265,990  $4,886,236  $4,886,236 1
5 (2) Tooth Fairy 147,077 -68% 602,144  $2,498,838  $10,294,136 2
6 (3) It’s Complicated 136,124 -62% 1,201,585  $2,312,747  $20,414,930 3
7 (-) Toy Story 125,934 +1,766% 251,703  $2,379,850  $5,423,593 707
8 (-) Toy Story 2 120,157 +12,862% 1,163,941  $2,348,733  $22,180,674 478
9 (9) Iron Man 106,029 +49% 9,346,726  $1,322,839  $165,660,072 85
10 (4) The Blind Side 105,273 -67% 4,687,128  $1,314,860  $74,638,500 8
11 (6) Sherlock Holmes 72,616 -31% 2,126,433  $906,974  $35,325,291 7
12 new Daria: The Complete Series 70,289   70,289  $3,226,968  $3,226,968 1
13 (7) Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel 70,128 -31% 3,688,764  $706,189  $61,163,770 7
14 (5) Leap Year 66,598 -58% 226,441  $1,198,098  $4,073,674 2
15 (13) The Princess and the Frog 61,824 +32% 3,816,135  $864,918  $59,693,499 9
16 (10) The Twilight Saga: New Moon 53,318 -22% 6,625,324  $932,532  $149,320,519 9
17 (11) Crazy Heart 42,446 -37% 585,194  $763,604  $10,952,528 4
18 (8) Nine 38,153 -49% 112,409  $686,372  $2,022,237 2
19 (15) The Lovely Bones 36,869 -5% 336,946  $642,258  $6,144,644 4
20 (19) Alice in Wonderland 34,222 +15% 794,297  $615,654  $14,331,864 633
21 (27) Up 33,901 +37% 10,406,410  $544,196  $175,402,806 27
22 (12) The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 33,018 -31% 177,698  $593,994  $3,196,787 3
23 (25) 2012 25,611 +3% 2,652,283  $515,549  $45,747,021 11
24 (14) The Descent: Part 2 25,476 -41% 114,391  $555,632  $2,466,415 3
25 (17) Glee, Volume One: Road to Sectionals 22,236 -34% 811,412  $400,026  $20,205,910 20
26 (-) The Dark Knight 18,485 +18% 15,377,131  $194,869  $245,716,912 75
27 (22) Brothers 18,032 -31% 462,576  $297,348  $7,930,250 8
28 (28) Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day 17,229 -19% 1,023,094  $370,251  $18,502,045 10
29 (-) The Adventures of Milo and Otis 16,037 -5% 361,482  $120,117  $2,513,079 559
30 (-) Ponyo 14,773 -4% 644,407  $206,674  $11,050,910 11

Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on weekly retail surveys, which we use to build a weekly market share estimate for each title we are tracking. The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News.

For example, if our weekly retail survey estimates that a particular title sold 1% of all units that week, and the industry reports sales of 1,500,000 units in total, we will estimate 15,000 units were sold of that title. The consumer spending estimate is based on the average sales price for the title in the retailers we survey.

We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates.

Because sales figures are estimated based on sampling, they will be more accurate for higher-selling titles.