Star Wars: The Force Awakens Smashes UK Blu-ray Record and Tops Google Play’s April Charts
Star Wars: The Force Awakens turned out to be as big as everyone thought it would be — and it is becoming even bigger. The film has broken another record in sales and just topped another chart. Read on for more!
According to Insideci, the home entertainment release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens has set a major record for Blu-ray and DVD sales in the UK. Figures released by the British Association for Screen Entertainment showed that 1,247,622 discs were sold in the films first week of release.
The news breaks the record of the previous best-selling James Bond film, over the same period. This officially makes the disc the UK’s fastest selling Blu-ray disc. It also makes it the title the tenth best selling UK title.
J.J. Abrams beautiful epic masterpiece has also made a huge impact in the UK home entertainment market helping push sales up 51% year-on-year, according to the Official Charts Company. The company also noted that the sales of new release Blu-rays is up 17.1% year-on-year in 2016.
Oh, it gets even better, ‘The Force Awakens’ which was recently released for purchase on Google Play and has earned the top spot for movies on Google Play’s April’s chart. Other chart-toppers include The Revenant, The Hateful Eight and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2.
The Force Awakens’ has proved to be the blockbuster you expect to be the number.’
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Hope everyone’s learned their lesson on this one considering it sounds like all the great stuff will be on the 3D version they will probably release right before Rogue One.
I will never learn my lesson.
Spoken like a true fan. It’s pretty funny to think no one reading this will ever live to see the end of the series and at some point most everyone on here will be to senile or arthritc to post anymore.
I WILL have my brain frozen like Walt Disney until they can mount it onto a robot body. I will have a marathon of Star wars Episodes 27-3,237 upon my arrival.
Even after they wind up selling it to Nickleodeon?
Yes. I’ll even watch the Star Wars Easter Special.
The Kwanzaa one too?
ESPECIALLY the Gungan Kwanzaa Special.
Followed by the Tusken Ramadan one.
The Hutt Islam Worship Special was honestly a tad awkward though.
Especially since they sponsor Twi’lek girls gone wild?
I’m watched it a few more times now and though have one or two problems, overall its a great experience. Still searching for my ideal custom blu-ray covers, so may need to design my own.
I love purchasing movies on Google Play. I fell sucker to purchasing the movie more than once already. Blu-ray hands down is the best experience, but having the ability to play the movie on anything that supports YouTube is totally worth it. Not looking forward to purchasing the movie again when they release a 4k or 3D Blu-ray. But I will likely still purchase them.
Could anyone tell me the bitrate and file size of the Google Play version and the presumably mp4 extra on the BluRay?
Are the other extras not available anywhere separately? My nephew tells me they couldn’t even be obtained in his habitual non-democratic fashion. Are they not meaty enough to warrant being televised? (I saw the deleted scenes and am glad they were…)
Thanks.
I know that the bonus features are on iTunes, but I don’t know about the PLay store.