'Brooklyn's Finest' Tops Weekly Blockbuster(R) Hit List of Top 10 Renting DVDs

'Brooklyn's Finest' Tops Weekly Blockbuster(R) Hit List of Top 10 Renting DVDs

DALLAS, July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Topping the BLOCKBUSTER® (BLOKA, BLOKB) Hit List of "Top 10 Renting DVD Titles" for the week ending July 11, 2010 is "Brooklyn's Finest." An American crime film starring Golden Globe® winner Richard Gere, Oscar® nominees Don Cheadle and Ethan Hawke, and Wesley Snipes, Brooklyn's Finest follows three New York police officers throughout the course of a week on the job. Gere plays Eddie, a disenchanted veteran cop days away from retirement. Cheadle portrays an undercover cop named Tango who begins to protect the drug kingpin target (played by Snipes) he is originally assigned to catch and arrest. Lastly, Hawke is cast as Sal, a narcotics cop using drug money to provide for his pregnant wife and two children. The film captures the dangerous world of New York City's most violent neighborhoods and the cops that serve them, Brooklyn's Finest.

BLOCKBUSTER® Hit List

Top 10 Renting DVD Titles at U.S. BLOCKBUSTER stores for the week ending July 11, 2010:

1. Brooklyn's Finest
2. Hot Tub Time Machine
3. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
4. Green Zone
5. The Crazies
6. The Book of Eli
7. Shutter Island
8. She's Out of My League
9. Remember Me
10. When In Rome

Top 10 Selling DVD Titles at U.S. BLOCKBUSTER stores for the week ending July 11, 2010:

1. Hot Tub Time Machine
2. Brooklyn's Finest
3. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
4. The Book of Eli
5. Green Zone
6. Avatar
7. Alice In Wonderland
8. The Jerk
9. Half Baked
10. Fried Green Tomatoes

Top 10 Online Renting DVD Titles at Blockbuster.com for the week ending July 11, 2010:

1. Brooklyn's Finest
2. The Book of Eli
3. Hot Tub Time Machine
4. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
5. Green Zone
6. A Single Man
7. Invictus
8. The Wolfman
9. Dear John
10. The Crazies

Top 10 Renting Blu-ray Titles at U.S. BLOCKBUSTER stores for the week ending July 11, 2010:

1. Brooklyn's Finest
2. The Crazies
3. The Book of Eli
4. Hot Tub Time Machine
5. Green Zone
6. She's Out of My League
7. Shutter Island
8. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
9. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
10. From Paris With Love

Top 10 Renting Digital Titles on BLOCKBUSTER On Demand® for the week ending July 11, 2010:

1. Hot Tub Time Machine
2. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
3. The Book of Eli
4. Green Zone
5. Shutter Island
6. She's Out of My League
7. The Road
8. Greenberg
9. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
10. Extraordinary Measures

Top 10 Selling Digital Titles on BLOCKBUSTER On Demand® for the week ending July 11, 2010:

1. Twilight
2. The Book of Eli
3. Unthinkable
4. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
5. Green Zone
6. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
7. Paranormal Activity
8. Avatar
9. A Single Man
10. Youth In Revolt

Top 10 Renting Video Game Titles at U.S. BLOCKBUSTER stores for the week ending July 11, 2010:

1. Crackdown 2- X360
2. Red Dead Redemption- X360
3. Super Mario Galaxy 2- Wii
4. Red Dead Redemption-PS3
5. UFC Undisputed 2010- X360
6. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction- X360
7. UFC Undisputed 2010- PS3
8. Transformers: War For Cybertron- X360
9. Battlefield: Bad Company 2- X360
10. Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4-Wii

These DVD Rental New Releases are hitting the streets Tuesday, July 20, 2010:

-- Cop Out
-- The Losers
-- The Runaways
-- Mother (Madeo)
-- Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg and The Pentagon Papers
-- Yellow Handkerchief
-- Dorian Gray
-- The Wronged Man
-- The Bannen Way
-- 2001 Maniacs: Field Of Screams
-- Ultimate Heist
-- Ninja's Creed
-- I Do & I Don't
-- Horse Crazy Too
-- Sutures
-- Kevin Hart-Seriously Funny
-- A Gangland Love Story
-- Just Another Day
-- Entre Nos
-- Secuestrada

For more information, check participating BLOCKBUSTER stores and online at Blockbuster.com.

About Blockbuster Inc.

Blockbuster Inc. is a leading global provider of rental and retail movie and game entertainment. The company provides customers with convenient access to media entertainment anywhere, any way they want it -- whether in-store, by mail, through vending kiosks or digitally to their homes and mobile devices. With a highly recognized brand and a library of more than 125,000 movie and game titles, Blockbuster leverages its multichannel presence to serve nearly 47 million global customers annually. The company may be accessed worldwide at www.Blockbuster.com.

Source: Blockbuster Inc.

CONTACT: Rebecca Fannin, +1-202-288-4372, for Blockbuster Inc.

Web Site: http://www.blockbuster.com/

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