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Contrary to the narrative in some circles that Star Wars: The Last Jedi permanently and irrevocably destroyed the Star Wars franchise, the film’s Blu-ray, released about four months ago, is already a hot seller. In fact, it’s the best-selling Blu-ray of 2018 to date, according to The Numbers. And everything else in the top 10 is way behind. Here are their current sales:

1. Star Wars: The Last Jedi - 3.01 million units sold

2. Black Panther - 2.62 million

3. Thor: Ragnarok - 2.34 million

4. Coco - 2.25 million

5. The Greatest Showman - 1.75 million

6. Justice League - 1.54 million

7. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - 1.38 million

8. It - 921,473

9. Blade Runner 2049 - 827,421

10. Ferdinand - 688,996

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More at the link.

Interesting to see Star Wars is alive and well, Disney dominant and a musical film about a circus is beating Justice League.



                            

I always say this. To see if Star Wars is doing well, you need only to look at merch and toy sales.

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9. Blade Runner 2049 - 827,421

This is a fucking shame. It should be in the top 5 at the very least.

Last edited by OTBWY - on 06 September 2018

I'm glad to see Coco up there. One of my all time favorites.



It made 1.3b box office and is now the best-selling blu-ray of 2018. How exactly is that a flop? I can remember seeing a thread about how bad it performed on this site.



To be fair, looking at the numbers, it's amazing how much has physical media shrinked over the years, at least when it comes to films. Three of the top 10 don't even reach the million...



You know it deserves the GOTY.

Come join The 2018 Obscure Game Monthly Review Thread.

Got to laugh at the cherry picking. Just like people like to use the strawman that people are saying TLJ was a flop. No one said that. It was a big disappointment. It made much less than it was projected to make, was beaten easily by a Marvel standalone film, and lead to a steep decrease in franchise sales, including the first ever SW flop, Solo.

Seems like the DVD sales will be no different. Last we heard, TLJ's home video sales are about half that of TFA. They state that the others are WAY behind, but not only is BP only 390K behind it, BP released to home video almost two months after TLJ did. Oh, and let's not wait til IW and JW2 numbers come in before we claim victory. In the end, TLJ probably won't even be in the Top 3 by the time the year is over. Pathetic for a main installment in the franchise.



Blade runner even being on this list is still pretty great compared to how it bombed.
TLJ was impressive visually but the plot was just pretty meh, nothing is happening in this new trilogy and there isn't much memorable. I wished Rey and Ben would just made a team and fight Luke. That would have been great but they went the boring route.

Also, don't get the hype around IT. Saw it, thought it was pretty lazy for the most profitable horror movie of all time. Still think The conjuring 1 is one of the best horror movie of this decade and IT isn't even top 5 imo.



Hiku said:
thismeintiel said:
Got to laugh at the cherry picking. Just like people like to use the strawman that people are saying TLJ was a flop. No one said that. It was a big disappointment. It made much less than it was projected to make, was beaten easily by a Marvel standalone film, and lead to a steep decrease in franchise sales, including the first ever SW flop, Solo.

I don't know why people insist on crediting Solo's fate to TLJ. Solo was a (almost entierly) pointless story. It was the first Star Wars film I didn't go to see in the cinemas, and it had 0 to do with TLJ.

It's pretty simple really. When thousands of fans say that TLJ killed the franchise for them, of course that's going to affect future entries into the franchise. Even with all the crap surrounding Solo, it should have easily broken even. Instead it flopped. A franchise first. 



Wow, Thor Ragnarok is really holding it's own ....

Blade Runner sales don't seem that bad to me.



thismeintiel said:
Got to laugh at the cherry picking. Just like people like to use the strawman that people are saying TLJ was a flop. No one said that. It was a big disappointment. It made much less than it was projected to make, was beaten easily by a Marvel standalone film, and lead to a steep decrease in franchise sales, including the first ever SW flop, Solo.

Seems like the DVD sales will be no different. Last we heard, TLJ's home video sales are about half that of TFA. They state that the others are WAY behind, but not only is BP only 390K behind it, BP released to home video almost two months after TLJ did. Oh, and let's not wait til IW and JW2 numbers come in before we claim victory. In the end, TLJ probably won't even be in the Top 3 by the time the year is over. Pathetic for a main installment in the franchise.

Disney laughs in money