Although many people have upgraded to Blu-ray Discs, the majority of Americans still view movies on DVD. While the overall home entertainment market is still hurting as more people rent than buy movies, blockbuster event movies still entice purchases. Warner Home Video had a very good year with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I and II dominating the chart. Disney has a trio of kid-friendly movies, including Cars 2, which is featured in the exclusive video interview with Owen Wilson and Eddie Izzard below. And it's worth noting that every movie, save for Bridesmaids, had a videogame tie-in for gamers to further explore these worlds.
Neilsen's Top 10 DVD Movies of 2011
Rank
Title
Distributor
Release Date
Source: Nielsen
Data from January 3, 2011 – December 4, 2011. Based on Aggregate disc unit sales (DVD, Blu-ray, Blu-ray/DVD Combo packs, etc.). Does not include data from Wal-Mart. Most other sell-through retailers are included.
1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
Warner Home Video
4/15/2011
2
Tangled
Disney/Buena Vista Home Video
3/29/2011
3
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II
Warner Home Video
11/11/2011
4
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Paramount Home Entertainment
9/30/2011
5
Cars 2
Disney/Buena Vista Home Video
11/1/2011
6
Rio
20th Century Fox Home Ent
8/2/2011
7
Bridesmaids
Universal Home Entertainment
9/20/2011
8
Megamind
Paramount Home Entertainment
2/25/2011
9
Fast Five
Universal Home Entertainment
10/4/2011
10
Lion King
Disney/Buena Vista Home Video
10/4/2011
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John Gaudiosi has been covering videogames for the past 20 years for outlets like The Washington Post, CNET, Wired Magazine and CBS.com. He has focused on the convergence of entertainment and videogames for outlets like Video Business, Home Media Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Gamerlive.TV and is also a freelance game columnist for Reuters and writes for outlets like Forbes.com, NVISION, Official PlayStation Magazine, EGM Now, Geek Monthly, PrimaGames.com, and Yahoo! Games. John also serves as the video game expert for NBC in Washington D.C. and has produced videogame documentaries for The History Channel and Starz Entertainment. John was named one of the Top 50 Game Journalists in the world by Next-Gen.biz in 2007. He is the co-author of Scholastic Books' How to Get into Videogames, Prima Publishing's Madden: Twenty Years of Videogame Football and Electronic Arts: The Official History.
