"Confessions" and "Code" boss video charts

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – With no high-profile affected appearance hitting DVD shelves, video consumers are axis to new material.

Case in point: "The Code," a direct-to-video abstruseness from First Look Studios, is the No. 1 rental for the anniversary concluded June 28, according to Home Media Magazine's bazaar analysis department.

The blur stars Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas and was helmed by adept TV ambassador and administrator Mimi Leder, whose contempo credits accommodate "E.R." and "Vanished." Leder is best accepted for her 1998 mega-hit, "Deep Impact."

"The Code" bumped the antecedent week's top renter, Warner Bros.' "Gran Torino," to No. 4, abaft two added new releases, anniversary with abstinent box-office earnings: Walt Disney Studios' "Confessions of a Shopaholic," which debuted at No. 2, and third-ranked "Inkheart," a fantasy from Warners.

"Confessions" was the week's No. 1 seller, according to Nielsen VideoScan First Alert data, with "Gran Torino" bottomward to No. 2. The third atom on the civic home video sales blueprint went to Paramount/Dreamworks' "Transformers," whose acknowledgment to the archive was fueled by the amazing affected aperture of its sequel.

"Transformers" additionally was the No. 1 Blu-ray Disc agent in the country, according to Nielsen VideoScan, with "Gran Torino" skidding aback into the No. 2 slot. Of the absolute cardinal of "Transformers" discs awash during the week, 21 percent were on Blu-ray Disc, an auspicious assurance for the high-definition format.

(Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)