Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 6:59 am
From Reuters on first week sales:
Meanwhile, Disney's remastered "The Lion King" has apparently picked up steam, selling upward of 5 million combined DVD and VHS units during its first five days at retail. The 10-year-old animated classic -- which remains the best-selling video of all time at 32 million VHS units sold to consumers during the mid-1990s -- appears to have topped its own Day 1 and Day 2 sales records for a rerelease, selling 2.3 million units Day 1 and about 3 million combined unit during its first two days in release, according to Disney execs.