SPIDEY WRAPS UP NEW DVD RECORD SUPERHERO TITLE SINKS 'TITANIC' MARK.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. - ``Spider-Man'' continued its heroics Friday by shipping a single-day record 26 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 in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , more than any other home-entertainment title in history, studio officials said. Executives at Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment said the year's highest-grossing film ($403.7 million) surpassed the approximately 21 million first-day copies of ``Titanic'' shipped four years ago. The home entertainment unit is responsible for the DVD and videotape release of the blockbuster film released in theaters by Columbia Pictures in May. ``It's exciting to be a part of an event film such as 'Spider-Man,' especially when you get to see the successful culmination of all the planning and hard work that went into selling it on DVD and video,'' Marshall Forster, executive vice president for sales for Columbia TriStar, said in a statement. ``We are very proud of the fact that our efforts have been etched in video history.'' The DVD is a two-disc set in both wide- and full-screen editions and features several interactive elements. In addition to the record shipment figures for North America, an additional 14 million copies of ``Spider- Man'' were shipped worldwide. The Marvel Comics comic hero-inspired film has grossed more than $800 million worldwide and holds a slew of box-office records, including the largest three-day opening in history ($114.8 million). ``The incredible success of 'Spider-Man' on DVD clearly mirrors the box-office success of the film,'' Avi Arad Avi Arad (Hebrew: אבי ארד) is an Israeli-American businessman. He became the CEO of the company Toy Biz in the 1990s, and soon afterward became the chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment, a Marvel director, and chairman and CEO of Marvel , president of Marvel Entertainment Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: MVL) is an American entertainment company. The company traces its origins to the May 1933 publication of Western Supernovel Magazine. , said in the statement. ``Both performances are true barometers of our culture's love and fascination with this beloved heroic character.'' Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment President 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. predicted that the performance of ``Spider-Man'' would lead his division to a record fourth quarter with such box-office hits as ``Men In Black II'' and ``XXX'' still to be released. ``Home entertainment has proven to be virtually recession-proof and we expect industry growth to be 15 (percent) to 20 percent for all video categories this fourth quarter,'' Feingold said. |
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