{"id":26419,"date":"2002-08-15T15:39:19","date_gmt":"2002-08-15T20:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/08\/15\/boxofficemojo-rental-stats-update-2\/"},"modified":"2002-08-15T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2002-08-15T20:39:19","slug":"boxofficemojo-rental-stats-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/08\/15\/26419-boxofficemojo-rental-stats-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BoxOfficeMojo Rental Stats Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Brandon Gray<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\" target=\"new\">Boxofficemojo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rentals stats for LOTR&#8217;s first week on home video are in: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/dvd\/2002\/32.htm\" target=\"new\">DVD Rentals<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/video\/2002\/32.htm\" target=\"new\">VHS Rentals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>People may have been so busy buying LOTR, that it didn&#8217;t break any rentals records. The epic fantasy minted $6.02 million in DVD rentals and $6.79 million in VHS rentals top both charts for the week ending August 11. By comparison, Harry Potter did $5.34 million on DVD and $7.41 million on VHS in its first week. So LOTR did top Potter in combined rentals, $12.81 million to $12.75 million.<\/p>\n<p>Full rentals charts will be posted later today, including how many times LOTR was rented, not just the money.<\/p>\n<p>Still no word on actual sales, but given the muted rentals numbers, they likely rivaled Harry Potter&#8217;s if not surpassed it. Potter&#8217;s first week came to 9.86 million in combined DVD and VHS sales, and it has gone on to sell nearly 7 million copies on DVD. Shrek is still the top DVD seller of all time at over 8 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon GrayBoxofficemojo.com The rentals stats for LOTR&#8217;s first week on home video are in: DVD Rentals and VHS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6S7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}