Blu-ray Sales: September 10-16

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For the week that ended on September 16th, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse remained atop both the Blu-ray-only and overall packaged media charts in its second week. The sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse finds Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy traveling across the multiverse and meeting the Spider-Society, and it began development even before the first film was released and became a breakout hit back in 2018. Like its predecessor, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was both a critical and commercial success, earning positive reviews from both critics and audiences and grossing over $381 million domestically and $689 million worldwide, so far. This week, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse had an impressive HD share of 78%, with 29% of units sold from the 4K UHD format.

Coming in second place on the Blu-ray-only chart this week is Warner Bros. Home Entertainment’s Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. The animated feature by the team behind Batman: The Animated Series was conceived as a direct-to-video release, before Warner made a late call to give the film a Christmas 1993 theatrical release. Although it failed to catch fire at the box office, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm received positive critical reviews and over the decades, it gained legendary status among Batman fans through home video. Despite this, the film was not remastered and released on Blu-ray until 2017, but months later its sequel, Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero also got a release, and before the year 2018 was out, Warner had also released all 109 episodes of Batman: The Animated Series on Blu-ray, even putting together a box set, Batman: The Complete Animated Series, which contained both films and the TV series together. Now, five years later, Warner revisted Batman: Mask of the Phantasm for its 30th anniversary, granting it both a 4K scan and a 4K UHD release with HDR, as well as both the original DTS-HD MA 2.0 audio track and a brand new DTS-HD MA 5.1 mix. Additionally, the film got its first bonus content, as a new featurette celebrating Kevin Conroy, the beloved voice actor of Batman who passed away in 2022, was included on the 4K UHD disc. This week, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm sold 26% as many Blu-ray units as Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, with a perfect HD share of 100% and 99.58% of units sold from the 4K UHD format….

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