'SPIDER-MAN' VIDEO NIBBLING AT RECORD.Byline: Greg Hernandez Staff Writer CULVER CITY Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. - After a record-setting debut weekend, ``Spider-Man'' is on track to surpass ``The Lion King'' as the biggest-selling home video release of all time, Sony Pictures Entertainment executives said Monday. An estimated 11 million 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. 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. copies of ``Spider-Man'' were sold over the weekend, amounting to more than $190 million in revenue from the film's first three days in stores. Sony Pictures Entertainment President John Calley called the opening weekend business ``simply staggering.'' Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Sony's video division, had shipped a record-setting 26 million copies to stores. Friday's sales of 7 million copies easily topped the first-day record of 5 million copies set just six weeks ago by ``Monsters, Inc.'' Disney's animated classic ``The Lion King'' remains the best-selling best·sell·er also best seller n. A product, such as a book, that is among those sold in the largest numbers. best video ever with 30 million copies sold. But the record now appears vulnerable under the onslaught of the ``Spider-Man'' juggernaut Juggernaut, India: see Puri. Juggernaut (Jagannath) huge idol of Krishna drawn through streets annually, occasionally rolling over devotees. [Hindu Rel.: EB, V: 499] See : Destruction , which has easily translated from theaters to home video. ``Spider-Man'' is already 2002's top-grossing movie, earning $403.7 million at the domestic box office during its stellar theatrical run when it broke a slew of records, including the biggest opening day and weekend in movie history. Benjamin Feingold Benjamin F. Feingold, M.D., (born June 15, 1899 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; died, March 23, 1982) was a pediatric allergist from California, who proposed in 1973 that salicylates, artificial colors, and artificial flavors cause hyperactivity in children. , president of Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, said that while the film's immense popularity greatly benefited the home video sales, he credited the division's marketing, sales and operations teams for a distribution strategy ``that insured maximum awareness and timely availability of the product for our retailers and consumers.'' |
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