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Home Media Magazine, which covers primarily home movie and videogame news, had an interesting lede for an article posted on August 9, 2007, about 300 DVD sales:
The article, by Thomas K. Arnold, so blatantly credits the movie as being like a videogame, yet videogame movies rarely do well (or a are usually not very good). Arnold seems to have missed that the movie actually – and intentionally – looks like the graphic novel by Frank Miller on which it was based. We gamers wish a videogame-based movie would be at least as good as 300.
The film earned $210.6 million in US theaters, $446.3 million worldwide, and has already earned $11.9 million in DVD rentals. As a comparison, Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2006) grossed $128.9 million worldwide in theaters ($50.7 million US) and Doom (2005) brought in only $54.6 million worldwide ($28.2 million US). The recent Dead or Alive (2007) movie has earned only $6 million. Comic book-based movies usually do a bit better, with Spider-man 3 (2007) raking in $887.3 worldwide ($336.3 in the US) and Superman Returns (2006) earning $391 million worldwide ($200 million US).
Read [Home Media Magazine]
NOTE: Sales figures are according to The Numbers.
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