Blu-ray Sales: December 3-9

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For the week that ended on December 9th, Walt Disney Home Entertainment’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny took the top spot on the both the Blu-ray-only and overall packaged media charts in its debut. The fifth Indiana Jones film was the first in the series not to be directed by Steven Spielberg, with James Mangold taking the director’s chair. However, series star Harrison Ford did return for the new film, which is set in 1969 and sees Jones and his goddaughter racing to recover an artifact that could alter time and change the outcome of World War II. The film opened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2023, where Ford’s performance received positive reviews, though reaction to the film as a whole was mixed. On its wide release in June 2023, the film topped the box office, but underperformed, grossing only some $83 million over the extended July 4th holiday weekend. Eventually, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny managed over $174 million domestically and over $383 million globally, but with the film’s extremely high budget of almost $300 million, it is unfortunately considered a box office bomb. Still, that hasn’t dampened enthusiasm for the home video release, as this week, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny had an HD share of 57% and 22% of units sold from the 4K UHD format…

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