October 28, 2005
Batman Begins Tops the DVD Charts / Sequel
Source: Superherohype.com
Warner Home Video's Batman Begins shot to first place on both the preliminary national sales and rental charts. It ranks as the top-selling DVD so far this fourth quarter, with nearly 4 million copies sold in the week ended October 23.
"George A. Romero's Land of the Dead" from Universal finished a distant second on VideoScan's First Alert chart.
On trade publication Home Media Retailing's rental chart, Batman Begins also scored an easy victory, generating an estimated $11.36 million in rental revenue for the week.
Empire Online got an update from Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan about how his meeting went with Warner Bros. Pictures about the sequel:
Jeff Robinov at Warners was quoted as saying that you tell him what the sequel is going to be. Is that the case?
Well, he's very polite to put it that way! I have marched into his office and I have told him what David Goyer and I think the story is, and they seem to like it a lot. I think the success of Batman Begins, in my terms, in it being a film that I wanted it to be, is very much due to a collaboration with the studio. It wasn't really one or the other telling the other what it should be, so I think he's poking fun
Sounds like great news. Nolan will first direct "The Prestige," starring Batman himself, Christian Bale, and Wolverine, Hugh Jackman.
Posted by MK Magazine at October 28, 2005 07:23 AM