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'Harry' Breaks Rental Record for Highest-Grossing Debut.(Brief Article)

By SACCONE, MELINDA
Publication: Video Store
Date: Sunday, June 9 2002

Warner Home Video's much- touted video debut of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone swept the nation last week, seizing consumers at both sellthrough and rental, making video history.

Harry Potter topped both the video sales and the video rental charts for the week ended June 2.

The fantasy film, the first in a franchise, was the hands-down winner on both the DVD and videocassette sales charts, according to VideoScan First Alert data.

Warner reported first-week North American sales of 9.86 million units, a new record, beating the 9.6 million uni

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