Kandahar
August 1, 2023
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment’s Kandahar remained No. 1 on the Redbox disc rental chart the week ended July 30.
In the film, Gerard Butler reteams with action director Ric Roman Waugh to play an undercover CIA operative who is stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan. After his mission is exposed, he must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all while avoiding elite enemy forces and foreign spies tasked with hunting them down.
Lionsgate’s John Wick: Chapter 4 stayed No. 2 on the disc rental chart, which tracks DVD and Blu-ray Disc rentals at Redbox’s thousands of red kiosks.
Universal’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie stayed No. 3 on the disc rental chart. However, the adaptation of the Nintendo video game franchise remained No. 1 for a third week on the Redbox On Demand chart, which tracks digital VOD and sellthrough transactions.
The No. 4 disc rental was Lionsgate’s Sisu, a World War II-set actioner about a gold prospector who takes on a squad of Nazis.
No. 5 on the disc rental chart was Paramount’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
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On the digital chart, No. 2 was again Warner’s The Flash, the latest DC-based superhero actioner which features the title character, played by Ezra Miller, causing a rift in the multiverse when he attempts to travel back in time to prevent his mother’s murder. Teamed with a younger version of himself, he recruit’s Michael Keaton’s Batman and Supergirl (Sasha Calle) to fix the timeline.
Remaining No. 3 was Relativity Media’s Hypnotic, which stars Ben Affleck as a detective investigating a string of impossible, high-end heists, who begins to question his own reality after discovering the man behind these robberies is a government-trained hypnotist.
The No. 4 digital title was again director Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, from MGM. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a U.S. Army sergeant who sets out to rescue the family of the Afghan interpreter who saved his life. It had been the top digital title the previous week.
The No. 5 digital title was Decal’s God Is a Bullet a thriller about a detective who quits the force after his ex-wife is murdered and daughter kidnapped, so he can infiltrate the satanic cult responsible.
Top DVD and Blu-ray Disc Rentals, Redbox Kiosks, Week Ended July 30:
- Kandahar — Universal
- John Wick: Chapter 4 — Lionsgate
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie — Universal
- Sisu — Lionsgate
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves — Paramount
- Book Club: The Next Chapter — Universal
- Renfield — Universal
- 65 — Sony Pictures
- Cocaine Bear — Universal
- Shazam! Fury of the Gods — Warner
Top Digital (VOD + Sellthrough), Redbox On Demand, Week Ended July 30:
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie — Universal
- The Flash — Warner
- Hypnotic — Relativity
- Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant — MGM
- God Is a Bullet — Decal
- Shrapnel — Well Go USA
- Fast X — Universal
- Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken — Universal/DreamWorks
- The Meg — Warner
- Book Club: The Next Chapter — Universal