'NEMO' NETS DVD RECORD FOR SALES.Byline: Greg Hernandez Staff Writer BURBANK - With 15 million copies sold, box office sensation ``Finding Nemo'' has quickly become the biggest-selling DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. title of all time, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. figures released Monday by Disney's Buena Vista Home Video division. ``Nemo'' managed to quickly surpass the previous DVD record of 14.5 million copies sold last year by ``The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.'' ``It's pretty stupendous stu·pen·dous adj. 1. Of astounding force, volume, degree, or excellence; marvelous. 2. Amazingly large or great; huge. See Synonyms at enormous. in terms of the quickness in which it happened,'' said Kurt Indvik, editor-in-chief of Video Store magazine, an industry trade publication. ``It's also timed perfectly with the gift-buying season heating up.'' In combined DVD and VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. sales, ``Nemo'' has sold 20 million copies, but will need to reach 32 million in order to surpass Disney's ``The Lion King'' if it is to become the best-selling home video title overall. ``I'm not saying we are going to surpass that title, but ('Nemo') will be the first one to challenge it,'' said Buena Vista Home Entertainment President Bob Chapek. ``'Lion King' had no competition in the marketplace. It's a different time than it was then, so in terms of sales Terms of sale Conditions under which a firm proposes to sell its goods or services for cash or credit. velocity, this is just phenomenal.'' The Disney/Pixar Animation Studios film about a spunky spunk·y adj. spunk·i·er, spunk·i·est Informal Spirited; plucky. spunk  i·ly adv. clownfish The clownfish, or anemonefish, are the subfamily Amphiprioninae of the family Pomacentridae. Currently 27 species exist, of which one is in the genus Premnas and the rest are in the subfamily's type genus Amphiprion. who gets lost and the dad who goes on an undersea adventure to find him
features the voices of Albert Brooks Albert Brooks (born July 22, 1947) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, writer, comedian and director. BiographyEarly life Brooks was born Albert Lawrence Einstein and Ellen DeGeneres. It is the highest- grossing movie of 2003 with $339.4 million in U.S. ticket sales so far. First-day sales alone were phenomenal - a record 8 million copies - besting the 7.5 million copies of ``Spider-Man'' sold on its opening day last fall. ``Nemo'' came out of the gate strong, partly due to unusually strong online pre-sales from such retailers as Wal-Mart.com, which expects the movie to become the site's biggest-selling film to date. Disney will continue its marketing push for ``Nemo'' in the coming weeks with holiday shopping on most people's agenda. ``There will be a big holiday campaign with a gift-giving push around Thanksgiving,'' Chapek said. ``I think you will continue to see strong momentum on this title.'' ``Nemo,'' is the latest in a series successful Pixar Animation Films released by Disney. Others include ``Monsters, Inc.,'' ``Toy Story'' and ``A Bug's Life.'' The next Pixar film from Disney is ``The Incredibles'' scheduled for November 2004 followed by ``Cars'' during the 2005 holiday season. Greg Hernandez, (818) 713-3758 greg.hernandez(at)dailynews.com |
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