DVD Sales: 'Resident Evil: Afterlife' rises from its grave; 'The American' dies

I was working in New Orleans all last week, so this chart is arriving a week late. I'll be getting caught up on last week's posts throughout the day today.

The post-Christmas week isn't a huge frame on the DVD Sales Chart, as most of the major retail shopping has already been done. Thus, during the week that ended January 2, 2011, there were only two new releases in the Top 30: Resident Evil: Afterlife and The American. One of them did alright, and one of them did not—at all. Resident Evil: Afterlife, which earned a solid $60.1M in its 3D theatrical release, kicked off the new year in first place, selling 575,668 copies and earning $9.9M. That's a big step back from Resident Evil: Extinction's 951,686 first-week sales in the first week of 2008, but Afterlife made up the difference with Blu-Ray sales of 470,000. (The full Blu-Ray chart will post later today.) Meanwhile, The American, George Clooney's latest political diatribe, was DOA, debuting in 15th place with first week sales of 208,737 copies and $3.1M, which is pretty awful for a film that earned $46.5M in theaters. Looks like young people buy DVDs and adults don't. That's really not shocking, is it?

In second place, Despicable Me shifted another 565,191 copies and is now only a week away from surpassing $100M in DVD sales revenue. Inception came in third, and the film has now sold 3.5M DVDs, and many, many more Blu-Rays. The post-holiday frame was especially kind to Salt, The Town, Glee: The Complete First Season, and The A-Team, as each filmed crossed the 1 million copies-sold mark this week. Check out The-Numbers' full chart below:

DVD Sales for the Week Ending January 2, 2011

Rank	Title	Units this Week	% Change	Total Units	Sales this Week	Total Sales	Weeks in Release
1	Resident Evil: Afterlife	575,668	-.-%	575,668	$9,861,193	$9,861,193	1
2	Despicable Me	565,191	-60.1%	5,732,257	$9,979,973	$96,817,119	3
3	Inception	518,331	-26.0%	3,474,186	$6,943,925	$60,511,675	4
4	Salt	416,266	-35.3%	1,059,189	$6,656,093	$16,936,432	2
5	The Town	374,933	-30.2%	1,250,988	$4,870,380	$19,787,299	3
6	Glee: The Complete First Season	371,997	276.4%	1,260,387	$5,576,235	$34,549,492	16
7	The A-Team	323,122	7.2%	1,263,055	$3,874,233	$19,843,694	3
8	Toy Story 3	312,876	-51.4%	9,348,244	$3,398,991	$165,457,995	9
9	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse	276,263	-64.2%	7,410,141	$5,166,118	$133,504,583	4
10	The Blind Side	259,454	-.-%	7,526,180	$1,554,129	$101,643,135	41
11	The Other Guys	258,532	-34.9%	1,293,056	$4,909,523	$24,555,133	3
12	Easy A	251,797	-21.5%	572,408	$4,278,031	$9,725,212	2
13	Family Guy: It's a Trap!	227,446	-42.9%	625,480	$2,954,524	$8,124,985	2
14	The Office: Season Six	216,739	-.-%	831,273	$3,248,918	$22,878,068	17
15	The American	208,737	-.-%	208,737	$3,128,968	$3,128,968	1
16	Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps	178,457	-53.3%	560,325	$2,853,527	$8,959,597	2
17	The Expendables	167,577	0.1%	2,308,706	$2,132,350	$38,428,989	6
18	Shrek Forever After	163,087	-54.6%	2,749,222	$2,680,840	$48,691,477	4
19	Knight and Day	158,021	-13.5%	1,236,706	$1,578,630	$16,814,455	5
20	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'hoole	130,849	-28.1%	449,620	$1,961,427	$6,421,033	3
21	Beauty and the Beast	120,372	-46.8%	-	$1,775,331	-	430
22	Eat Pray Love	105,989	-46.7%	1,587,514	$1,467,948	$26,361,047	6
23	Step Up 3	104,077	-46.2%	297,493	$2,229,610	$6,341,093	2
24	The Sorcerer's Apprentice	90,871	-31.3%	1,202,975	$1,303,999	$20,329,330	5
25	True Blood: The Complete Second Season	88,154	-.-%	1,235,992	$1,321,428	$42,245,086	32
26	House: The Complete Sixth Season	84,878	-.-%	467,031	$1,320,702	$15,391,915	18
27	Grown Ups	81,585	-57.9%	2,308,416	$1,247,223	$38,940,555	8
28	Castle: The Complete Second Season	71,929	-.-%	334,242	$1,078,216	$10,278,550	15
29	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season Five	65,591	-.-%	480,623	$655,254	$11,382,793	16
30	Nanny McPhee Returns	57,740	-28.1%	311,956	$1,067,613	$5,640,958	3