This isn't good news from Pixar because they make so few movies every year. So the shortfall was even harder on the bottom line then they were ready for. This could be a worrying trend:
McAlpine said. "What's really happened is that some of the retailers are probably returning product sooner rather than later. Wal-Mart wants to move that inventory faster."
I have noticed this trend, in that Wal-Mart doesn't seem to stock as big a library as they once did. They want to get lots of copies of the newest movie so their back catalogue of stuff is pretty thin. Lots of time, there are empty spots where an older movie has been. Other times it is very hard to find certain movies if they are about a year old.
But DVD sales are still looking pretty robust around these parts though. Recently the movie Hitch was 100% sold out the last time I was at Wal-Mart. I could never remember a romantic comedy selling out every copy as long as I have been buying DVDs. Maybe Will Smith is just that big a star.
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