More people considered BvS a keeper?
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ThoatWobblerMangrove — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 10:09 AM)
Not that you're looking for an answer, but here's a possible one. Civil War was put out by disney. Disney is notorious for rarely if ever lowering prices. BvS has been on the under 10 sale point multiple times since it's release (the blu-ray version). so more consumers are willing to buy it because it's less expensive.
This is an absolute reason in some previous cases. Most obvious: Man of Steel outselling Iron Man 3 with a price point about $10 lower on average. (My assumption is that Disney has been reluctant to put discs at bargain price because they want to make a killing on the large box sets later on.)
I don't think it's what's at play in his numbers, though. The data only runs up to early November for CA:CW and only up to mid-October for BvS, so the massive discounting hadn't even happened yet.
It's impossible to tell how big the impact of releasing two different versions of the film, with the "ultimate" version only available in premium formats, would be. It means die-hard fans would buy more than one copy, though. Some other customers would choose to purchase the premium-priced option, where they otherwise would have chosen to purchase the cheaper disc. (Or just wait to see it for free on cable - I've never seen the ultimate cut because I refuse to buy it.)
Otherwise, home video sales data is really hard to assess under even the best circumstances. There's so many moving parts, and they often don't follow obvious, rational patterns. -
CichlidAsh — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 09:10 AM)
I know the only reason that I have BvS on home video somewhere is that I wanted to see the full movie and while I think that Civil War is a far superior movie I don't own that on home video because I have no reason to I saw it in the cinema. So perhaps the answer is that in order to see the full version of BvS you had to buy the movie on home video while you could actually watch the full version of Civil War at the cinema. It is a clever tactic for getting more sales by WB with this double dipping by cutting large chunks out of the film in its cinema release but I have to say if they do it with JL I will skip watching it in the cinema and instead wait for the home video version to be released.
To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script -Alfred Hitchcock -
Damon369 — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 10:01 AM)
Fact is it didn't . After 16 weeks of sales data BVS sold 2,063,408 Blu-rays for a total of $48,929,136 . After 8 weeks of sales data Civil War has sold 2,480,426 Blu-rays (almost half a million more in half the time)for a total of $49,647,847.
As for DVD sales BVS 1,025,910 units for $17,538,712 .14 weeks of data .
Civil War 943,371 units for $16,185,005 .8 weeks of data .
Combined totals BVS 3,089,318 units for $66,467,848 .
CW 3,423,797 units for $65,832,852 .
So Civil war has sold 400,000 more units in half the time .
This data also shows the average price of BVS was more than Civil War .
For a direct comparison BVS sold 2,771,165 Dvds and Blurays after 8 weeks to
Civil Wars 3,423,797 units .
All data from The Numbers website .