Top DVDs: 'Simpsons' yellow signals green

It was dollars to doughnuts at the DVD sales counters as "The Simpsons Movie" crashed into first place in its opening week.

The 20th Century Fox release took second in rentals, chasing Universal Studios Home Entertainment's "The Bourne Ultimatum."

The rest of the chart toppers looked familiar: In sales, it was "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" second, "Bourne" in third and "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" chugging along in fourth.

Next week should be more of the same with few new titles of interest braving the holiday period.

Sales (week ending Dec. 23)
1. The Simpsons Movie
2. Harry Potter: Phoenix
3. The Bourne Ultimatum
4. Pirates: At World's End
5. High School Musical 2

Rentals (week ending Dec. 23)
1. The Bourne Ultimatum
2. The Simpsons Movie
3. Harry Potter: Phoenix
4. Superbad
5. Stardust

Comments

[Liz]

The Simpsons Movie certainly deserves to top sales - it's much better than the show has been recently.

[Andy Cooper]

The Simpsons Movie turned out a lot better than a lot of us dared hope. Love the little touches, like when danger threatens, the church congregation rushes into the bar next door while the bar crowd rushes into the church. Harry Potter DVD is pretty good too - have those kids ever grown. You see JK Rowling is now hinting there MIGHT be another Potter book in a few years?