Blu-ray sales for 'Star Wars' top $84 million

Customers were prepared to spend out a premium price for that complete "The Exorcist" franchise, which bowed on Blu-ray now, using the collection selling a lot more than a million models to interrupt records for that high-definition homevideo format. The nine-disc set produced a lot more than $84 million from worldwide sales, with $38 million collected within the U.S. alone, from 515,000 models in The United States. Normally, the gathering is listed at $79.99. The sales figures made "The Exorcist: The Entire Saga" no. 1 pre-order and catalog title because the launch of Blu-ray in 2006. Lucasfilm and Last Century Fox Home Theatre happen to be marketing the discharge within the last 13 several weeks, using the advertising campaign including Darth Vader and Stormtroopers overtaking the Panasonic booth to announce the September release date at January's Electronic Devices Show in Vegas along with a start looking at North Park Comic-Disadvantage. "Once more our fan's enthusiasm to celebrate 'Stars Wars' is constantly on the amaze us," stated Kayleen Walters, senior director, marketing at Lucasfilm. "Our goal ended up being to deliver reasonably limited creation that they might enjoy using their family and buddies and that we are thrilled that they're taking pleasure in it around we wished they'd.Inch Episodes I-III and IV-Mire can also be found separate Blu-ray trilogy collections for $39.99 each. "The Exorcist is really a franchise with universal tales that resonates just as much today because it did 3 decades ago," stated Mary Daily, executive Vice president of selling for Last Century Fox Home Theatre and Vincent Marcais, senior Vice president of worldwide marketing for Last Century Fox Home Theatre. "Using the Blu-ray, audiences will go much deeper in to the mythology than in the past and reunite with everything else they love concerning the saga in the perfect quality."The gathering includes the six movies around the Blu-ray format the very first time, with erased, extended and alternate moments, new documentaries and "The Exorcist" spoofs created in the last 30 years. The very first pic from the original trilogy did not bow on DVD until 2004, as the prequels arrived on the scene sooner, from 2000. Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com