"12 Rounds" tops video sales chart in slow week

By Thomas K. Arnold

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Amid a dearth of high-profile video releases, as Hollywood studios hold back their big films for the fourth-quarter holiday season, movies that otherwise would have been also-rans are shooting up the rental and sales charts.

Case in point: The top-selling home video release for the week ended July 5 was 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's "12 Rounds," which grossed just $12.2 million at the box office during its theatrical release. The action film was one of the last movies from the now-shuttered Fox Atomic division, launched two years ago to produce low-budget movies aimed at teens.

"12 Rounds" was No. 1 on the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart and also topped Nielsen's Blu-ray Disc chart during its first week in stores.

On Home Media Magazine's video rental chart for the week, "12 Rounds" debuted at No. 2, right behind Warner Bros.' Clint Eastwood drama "Gran Torino," which moved back into the No. 1 rental spot a month after its release. The previous week it was No. 4.

The season-five DVD set of the HBO series "Entourage" debuted at No. 2 on the sales chart.

Walt Disney Studios' TV movie "Princess Protection Program" debuted at No. 3, with "Gran Torino" finishing at No. 4. Rounding out the top five was another Disney release, "Jonas Brothers -- The Concert Experience."