Avengers Tops DVD and Blu-Ray Sales, Lifts All Marvel’s Films

By: Russ Burlingame

 Marvel’s The Avengers, the year’s top-grossing film and the third-most moneymaking movie of all time, is not only blowing away the competition on the DVD sales chart but is also driving so much interest that it has dragged the previous Marvel Studios films near the top of the sales charts as well.

Home Media Magazine reports five of the earlier installments of the Marvel tentpole franchises have entered the First Alert Top 25 list for DVD and Blu-ray sales: Thor at No. 8, Captain America: The First Avenger at No. 13, Iron Man 2 at No. 14, The Incredible Hulk at No. 19 and the first Iron Man at No 23. The five films also reappeared on the top 20 Blu-ray chart. The only thing missing from that list is Ang Lee’s The Hulk, which is years older than the others and only very tenuously connected to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.