Boy, What A Winner!

15 October 2010
News release

Boy, What A Winner! Kiwi Film Takes First Place In
Whitcoulls Top DVD List

Kiwi film Boy has taken out the honours in the new Whitcoulls DVD TOP 50 list, announced today.

Taika Waititi’s award-winning movie saw off blockbusters like Avatar, Lord Of The Rings and The Dark Knight, to claim first place on the list of New Zealanders’ favourite DVDs.

More than a third of the films on the latest list are new, including Boy and second place-getter Avatar, with New Zealand movies making a very strong showing.

“The list shows just how vibrant the New Zealand film industry is and it’s fantastic to see Kiwis embracing those movies so enthusiastically,” says Whitcoulls marketing manager Catherine Collins.

“We have Boy at No 1, the Lord Of The Rings trilogy at No 6, The World’s Fastest Indian at No 26 and by Whale Rider at No 27. Avatar, some of which was filmed here, is at No 2 and District 9, which also has a strong Kiwi connection, enters the list at No 42.”

Other new entrants include subtitled film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo at No 5 and The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas at No 17. The Toy Story series came in at No 11 while Sandra Bullock’s Oscar-winning turn in The Blind Side saw it enter the list at No 16.

Last year’s winner Mamma Mia has dropped to No 8 but blokes’ favourite The Shawshank Redemption hung in there at No 3, down just one. Pretty Woman suffered the biggest drop, falling from 8 to 33.

Action flicks made a strong showing with The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy up one to 6, the Star Wars series up one to 16 and The Dark Knight up from 24 to 12.

They battled it out with chick flicks like The Notebook, up two to No 4, although Love Actually was down from No 3 to 7, the Twilight series was down from No 4 to 9 and Pride And Prejudice dropped five to No 10.

Other new films on the DVD Top 50 include Oscar winner The Hurt Locker (No 25), Julie & Julia (No 44), Inglourious Basterds (No 47) and Audrey Hepburn’s classic Breakfast At Tiffany’s - a surprise entrant at No 50.

The new Whitcoulls DVD Top 50 is:

1. Boy - NEW
2. Avatar - NEW
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. The Notebook
5. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - NEW
6. The Lord Of The Rings trilogy
7. Love Actually
8. Mamma Mia
9. Twilight series
10. Pride & Prejudice
11. Toy Story series - NEW
12. The Dark Knight
13. Grease
14. Dirty Dancing
15. Star Wars series
16. The Blind Side - NEW
17. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - NEW
18. The Sound Of Music
19. Forrest Gump
20. Harry Potter series
21. The Green Mile
22. Juno
23. Pulp Fiction
24. Star Trek XI - NEW
25. The Hurt Locker - NEW 26. The World’s Fastest Indian - NEW
27. Whale Rider
28. Transformers series
29. Little Miss Sunshine
30. Saving Private Ryan
31. Ice Age series
32. Mao’s Last Dancer - NEW
33. Pretty Woman
34. The Matrix
35. The Princess Bride
36. Slumdog Millionaire
37. Finding Nemo
38. Memoirs Of A Geisha - NEW
39. Amelie - NEW
40. Alice In Wonderland - NEW
41. Shrek series
42. District 9 - NEW
43. Gone With The Wind
44. Julie & Julia - NEW
45. Notting Hill
46. Bourne series
47. Inglourious Basterds - NEW
48. Bridget Jones’ Diary
49. Iron Man
50. Breakfast At Tiffany’s - NEW

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