'Inferno' Blazes to No. 1 on Disc Sales Charts

1 Feb, 2017 By: Thomas K. Arnold

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Sony Pictures' Inferno debuted in the top spot for the week ended Jan. 29 on the NPD VideoScan First Alert sales chart, which tracks combined DVD and Blu-ray Disc unit sales, and the dedicated Blu-ray Disc sales chart.

Inferno is a mystery thriller directed by Ron Howard that earned $34.3 million in U.S. theaters, less than half its estimated budget. The film, the third adaptation of Dan Brown's mystery novel series, is a sequel to The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons and stars Tom Hanks, reprising his role as Harvard professor Robert Langdon.

Warner’s Suicide Squad rose back up to No. 2 on the First Alert chart, switching places with another Warner title, The Accountant, which slipped to No. 4 its third week in stores.

Universal Pictures’ The Secret Life of Pets rose back up to No. 3 on the overall disc sales chart, with Warner’s Storks returning to the top five, at No. 5, in its sixth week of release.

On the Blu-ray Disc chart, Suicide Squad and Secret Life of Pets also rose back up to No. 2 and No. 3, from No. 4 and No. 7, respectively, the week before.

Warner’s Sully and Storks rounded out the top five on the Blu-ray Disc sales chart, while the prior week’s second-biggest seller, The Accountant, fell to No. 7.

Inferno generated 46% of its total unit sales from Blu-ray Disc.

The previous week’s top seller, the Universal Pictures suspense thriller The Girl on the Train, dropped to No. 10 on both charts, one of the biggest week-to-week drops for a top title in years.

On Home Media Magazine’s weekly rental chart, Lionsgate’s Deepwater Horizon remained at No. 1 for the third consecutive week, while Universal Pictures’ Snowden soared up to No. 2 now that its 28-day holdback from Redbox is over.

Fox’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children remained at No. 3, while Secret Life of Pets slipped to No. 4 from No. 2 the prior week.

Rounding out the top five was Universal Pictures’ Jason Bourne, down a notch from the prior week.

Lionsgate’s USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage debuted at No. 6.

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