James Bond flick “Skyfall” leads movie home video sales chart July 6, 2013 - 10:42 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Skyfall has proven to be the biggest selling video of 2013 so far, Digital Spy said citing the Official Charts Company. The latest James Bond outing, starring Daniel Craig and Judi Dench, leads the chart for movie home video sales, ahead of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and musical Les Misérables. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 landed in fourth place, while Taken 2 completed the top five. In total, Skyfall shifted more than 2.8 million units over the six-month period up until Saturday, June 29. The video market was dominated by various box sets of Brendan O'Carroll sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys and HBO's acclaimed fantasy series Game of Thrones. Martin Talbot, chief executive of the Official Charts Company, said: "The strength of Skyfall, Game of Thrones and Mrs Brown's Boys (not to mention other big sellers such as The Hobbit, Life of Pi, Les Misérables and Breaking Dawn 2) shows that DVD and Blu-ray continues to be a hugely popular entertainment format - either as a personal treat or a gift."   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity  The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization.Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia.Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |
