Citing VideoScan’s First Alert sales chart, The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Robert Rodriguez’s adaptation of Frank Miller’s Sin City graphic novel series was the best-selling release of the week. The violent, black-and-white neo-noir thriller from Buena Vista Home Entertainment easily outsold all newcomers, including Universal’s Debra Messing romantic comedy, The Wedding Date.
Sin City, which grossed around $74 million in theatrical release, picked up another estimated $9.84 million with rentals alone last week. While sales figures haven’t been released yet, it’s estimated that the film surpassed The Wedding Date by a four-to-one ratio. Coming in at a close third is 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s The Simpsons: The Complete Sixth Season, a major coo for a $50 box set.
Sin City blends live actors with CG imagry created by TroubleMaker Studios, The Orphanage, Café FX and Hybride under visual effects supervisor Daniel LeDuc (Spy Kids, Once Upon a Time in Mexico). Based on three of Miller’s graphic novels–Sin City, The Big Fat Kill and That Yellow Bastard, the film features an all-star cast that includes Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Nick Stahl, Powers Boothe, Rutger Hauer, Elijah Wood, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy, Michael Clarke Duncan and Carla Gugino.
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