

‘Luca’ Tops August Disc Sales
September 15, 2021
Disney’s Luca earned top honors on the top 10 list of combined DVD and Blu-ray Disc unit sales for August 2021 according to the NPD Group’s VideoScan tracking service.
The Pixar Animation Studios film, which bypassed theaters domestically in favor of a Disney+ streaming debut, arrived on disc Aug. 3, giving it nearly the full month to accumulate retail sales.
The No. 2 seller for the month was Lionsgate’s Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard. The action-comedy sequel was released on disc Aug. 17 and was a top disc on the weekly sales charts for two consecutive weeks.
The No. 3 August seller was Paramount’s suspenseful sequel A Quiet Place Part II, which had been No. 4 in July after just four days of the disc being available that month. It moved up a spot in its first full month of availability.
No. 4 in August was Warner’s 1996 sports comedy Space Jam, which had been No. 3 in July after getting a boost from a new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray edition and the release of a new sequel, Space Jam: A New Legacy. Its sales were strong enough over the past two months to enter the year-to-date top 10 at No. 6.
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The top July title, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment’s Mortal Kombat remake, dropped to No. 5 in August, though it did crack the top 10 for top-selling titles of the year to date.
Other newcomers in the monthly top 10 included Warner’s Batman: The Long Halloween — Part Two at No. 6, Warner’s The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It at No. 8 (after being released the last week of the month), and Warner’s Those Who Wish Me Dead, which took No. 9 after an Aug. 3 disc release.
On the year-to-date chart, August results didn’t alter the top five at all, with Universal’s The Croods: A New Age remaining the year’s top-selling title. But Space Jam and Mortal Kombat climbing into the top 10 pushed Warner’s The Meg and Harry Potter Complete 8-Film Collection off the list.
According to NPD, the August 2021 top 10 by units sold were:
- Luca (Disney)
- Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard (Lionsgate)
- A Quiet Place Part II (Paramount)
- Space Jam (Warner)
- Mortal Kombat (Warner)
- Batman: The Long Halloween — Part Two (Warner)
- Godzilla vs. Kong (Warner)
- The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (Warner)
- Those Who Wish Me Dead (Warner)
- E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial (Universal)
Year-to-date Top 10 (through August 2021):
- The Croods: A New Age (Universal/DreamWorks)
- Wonder Woman 1984 (Warner)
- Godzilla vs. Kong (Warner)
- Raya and the Last Dragon (Disney)
- Monster Hunter (Sony Pictures)
- Space Jam (Warner)
- News of the World (Universal)
- Soul (Disney)
- Tom & Jerry (2021, Warner)
- Mortal Kombat (2021, Warner)