The Jason Statham actioner Shelter led the chart of the top 10 titles on Fandango’s transactional digital service Fandango at Home for the week ended March 1.
In the action thriller, available for premium digital rental and sale, Statham plays a former British government assassin living in isolation off the coast of Scotland who is forced back into violent confrontation with his past while protecting a young girl from the agency determined to eliminate him.
Rising from No. 4 to No. 2 on the chart was Disney’s animated sequel Zootopia 2, which is available at a lower digital sale price after a premium-priced run. The sequel finds buddy cops Judy Hopps the rabbit and Nick Wilde the fox once again teaming up to crack a new case when they find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile.
Landing at No. 3 on the chart was Return to Silent Hill, available digitally Feb. 24 from Cineverse. The third film in the “Silent Hill” franchise is inspired by the 2001 video game Silent Hill 2. The psychological horror thriller stars Jeremy Irvine and Hannah Emily Anderson and follows a broken man who receives a mysterious letter which calls him back to Silent Hill in search of his lost love.
Falling from the top spot to No. 4 on the chart was Amazon MGM Studios’ Mercy. In the drama set in the near future, a detective (Chris Pratt) stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced A.I. Judge (Rebecca Ferguson) he once championed, before it determined his fate. The film is available for premium digital rental and sale.
Falling from No. 3 to No. 5 on the chart was Lionsgate’s thriller The Housemaid, which became available for premium digital sale and rental Feb. 3. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, it follows Millie (Sydney Sweeney) who, trying to escape her past, accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar). What begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something dangerous.
Building a passionate audience is the key objective at direct-to-consumer services Angel Studios and Fandango, executives said Feb. 25 during DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group’s EnTech Fest conference at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
“We want audiences to care,” said Thomas Hughes, EVP, head of distribution strategy and global partnerships at Angel Studios. “That’s our difference, is to bring audiences in and have them invest in what we do.”
Angel, which he noted has 2.1 million members, is based on a unique model where members vote on films greenlighted and, for a monthly fee (from $12 to $20), are offered tickets to its theatrical movies and access to its a streaming service.
“Nobody [in the executive suite] decides what gets made at Angel; the audience decides,” Hughes said. “Every film, even a licensed film. These days we have licensed films with partners like Lionsgate on our platform, and those films — even if it’s been out for 15 years — they go in front of our audience and the audience chooses whether or not we put our name on it.”
Cameron Douglas, who is SVP of OTT/Streaming for Fandango and heads the company’s transactional (digital sale and rental) streaming service Fandango at Home, agreed that, as at Angel, the audience connection at Fandango is all important.
“We both address very passionate audiences, just in a very different way,” he said.
“I think what’s happening now is the ultimate goal of Fandango being synonymous with fandom. Whether you’re seeing something in the theater or at home — then Fandango will be able to support you,” he added.
Fandango was recently spun off from Comcast under the Versant Media Group monicker.
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“[Versant] is managed under four pillars. Political news and opinion. Business news and personal finance. Golf and sports participation. And then sports and genre entertainment and that’s where Fandango is part of that portfolio,” Douglas said. “Now each of those have very passionate audiences. … But Fandango I’d say has the most traditional passionate fan base. That could be the guy who always wants to see opening weekend premium movies coming out at the theater. That could be the person that wants to collect the next superhero movie on Fandango at Home when it comes out, and they’d be willing to pay $20 for that. That is the dad that just wants to have a family night with his kids and go out to the theater. He actually organizes that and buys the tickets through Fandango. That is the fandom that we are talking about, and that’s what we’re leaning into going forward.”
That isn’t to say each of the services works alone.
“With the help of partners like Fandango at Home we distribute well beyond our own platform,” Hughes said. “But we don’t make movies. We don’t develop movies. People bring us movies and series that either go into theaters if it’s a movie or on our platform if it’s a series, and then we do full distribution downstream. We are licensing to third parties, to SVOD platforms in many instances, and again working with transactional partners like Fandango at Home to unlock other revenue streams for these filmmakers. We do it a little bit differently in that we don’t take a distribution fee. … We only participate in the profitability when it becomes profitable.”
Douglas agreed that partnerships are key.
“We identify organizations like Angel Studios that are willing and interested in working with us both with theatrical and at Home entertainment that we’ve built where they can lean into the power of what we can do to market their films,” he said.
At Fandango, the new spin-off company also offers new opportunities, buttressed by the existing flat, but stable, transactional digital entertainment business, Douglas said.
“If we’re looking at who we serve now, we own the transactional customer,” he said. “We have this great ticketing business. We have 41 million addressable consumers every month. We have hundreds of millions of hours consumed on Fandango at Home every year. … Basically that is our current audience.”
The cable channels that came along with Versant also offer new opportunities in the Fandango at Home DTC ad-supported marketplace.
“It is well known that the cable audience is declining and there is a passion for what that traditionally has been, which is an ad-supported business, to go into streaming and digital,” Douglas said. “We’ve always had a nascent AVOD and FAST component at Fandango at Home, post Vudu, but we haven’t invested in it.”
The new, smaller organization at Versant “allows us to focus and make investment in relaunching essentially later this year our FAST business” with these cable assets’ content, including reality and true crime content.
“What actually came along with the spinoff is Versant now has a vast library of originals produced by E! and Syfy and Oxygen, etc. — a lot of reality, a lot of true crime,” he noted. “And true crime is huge in AVOD.”
That kind of ad-supported programming has growth potential, he noted.
“That is really the growing part of the business because the transactional part of our business, which we are very successful at, is a mature market,” Douglas said, noting that Fandango has added PPV and cable TVOD capabilities that also allow it to enter the live streaming market.
Still, attracting and keeping a passionate viewer is the top challenge, both said.
“[The key is] finding customers and keeping them,” Hughes said. “We believe a number of our members believe in us causally, but at the end of the day people want to be entertained, and there has to be enough entertainment value there to extract their money on a month in month out basis. That’s the challenge.”
Amazon MGM Studios’ Mercy led the chart of the top 10 titles on Fandango’s transactional digital service Fandango at Home for the week ended Feb. 22.
In the drama set in the near future, a detective (Chris Pratt) stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced A.I. Judge (Rebecca Ferguson) he once championed, before it determined his fate. The film is available for premium digital rental and sale.
Debuting at No. 2 on the chart was Sony Pictures’ 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, the fourth installment in the “28 … Later” series that launched in 2002 with 28 Days Later. In a continuation of the post-apocalyptic virus story, Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself in a shocking new relationship — with consequences that could change the world as they know it — and Spike’s (Alfie Williams) encounter with Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) becomes a nightmare he can’t escape. The film became available for premium digital rental and sale Feb. 17.
Falling from the top spot to No. 3 on the chart was Lionsgate’s thriller The Housemaid, which became available for premium digital sale and rental Feb. 3. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, it follows Millie (Sydney Sweeney) who, trying to escape her past, accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar). What begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something dangerous.
Dropping two spots to No. 4 on the chart was Disney’s animated sequel Zootopia 2, which became available for premium digital rental and sale Jan. 27. The sequel finds buddy cops Judy Hopps the rabbit and Nick Wilde the fox once again teaming up to crack a new case when they find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile.
Landing at No. 5 on the chart was Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, which unites the two volumes of the Quentin Tarantino film into a single, unrated epic — presented as he intended, complete with a new anime sequence. In the feature, Uma Thurman stars as The Bride, left for dead after her former boss and lover Bill ambushes her wedding rehearsal, shooting her in the head and stealing her unborn child. To exact her vengeance, she must first hunt down the four remaining members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad before confronting Bill himself. The film is available for digital purchase.
Lionsgate’s The Housemaid again led the chart of the top 10 titles on Fandango’s transactional digital service Fandango at Home for the week ended Feb. 15.
The thriller became available for premium digital sale and rental Feb. 3. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, it follows Millie (Sydney Sweeney) who, trying to escape her past, accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar). What begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something dangerous.
Remaining at No. 2 on the chart was Disney’s animated sequel Zootopia 2, which became available for premium digital rental and sale Jan. 27. The sequel finds buddy cops Judy Hopps the rabbit and Nick Wilde the fox once again teaming up to crack a new case when they find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile.
Debuting at No. 3 on the chart was Paramount Pictures’ household pet-turned-predator horror film Primate, which became available for premium digital rental and sale Feb. 10. In the film from director Johannes Roberts, a family vacation turns deadly when a pet chimpanzee is bitten by a rabid animal and becomes violent.
Falling a spot to No. 4 on the chart was Sony Pictures’ comedic Anaconda, which became available for premium digital rental and sale Jan. 27. In the film, Doug (Jack Black) and Griff (Paul Rudd) have been best friends since they were kids and have always dreamed of remaking their all-time favorite movie: the cinematic “classic” Anaconda. When a midlife crisis pushes them to finally go for it, they head deep into the Amazon to start filming. But things get real when an actual giant anaconda appears, turning their comically chaotic movie set into a deadly situation.
Debuting at No. 5 on the chart was A24’s Oscar-nominated Marty Supreme, which became available for premium digital rental and sale Feb. 10. The film stars Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a shoe salesman who also competes on the table tennis circuit in 1952 and begins an affair with a married actress (Gwyneth Paltrow).
Lionsgate’s The Housemaid led the chart of the top 10 titles on Fandango’s transactional digital service Fandango at Home for the week ended Feb. 8.
The thriller became available for premium digital sale and rental Feb. 3. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, it follows Millie (Sydney Sweeney) who, trying to escape her past, accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar). What begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something dangerous.
Falling from the top spot to No. 2 on the chart was Disney’s animated sequel Zootopia 2, which became available for premium digital rental and sale Jan. 27. The sequel finds buddy cops Judy Hopps the rabbit and Nick Wilde the fox once again teaming up to crack a new case when they find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile.
Falling a spot to No. 3 on the chart was Sony Pictures’ comedic Anaconda, which also became available for premium digital rental and sale Jan. 27. In the film, Doug (Jack Black) and Griff (Paul Rudd) have been best friends since they were kids and have always dreamed of remaking their all-time favorite movie: the cinematic “classic” Anaconda. When a midlife crisis pushes them to finally go for it, they head deep into the Amazon to start filming. But things get real when an actual giant anaconda appears, turning their comically chaotic movie set into a deadly situation.
Vertical Entertainment’s horror flick We Bury the Dead, starring Daisy Ridley, debuted at No. 4 on the chart. In the film, after a catastrophic military disaster, the dead don’t just rise — they hunt. The military insists they are harmless and slow-moving, offering hope to grieving families. But when Ava (Ridley) enters a quarantine zone searching for her missing husband, she uncovers the horrifying truth: The undead are growing more violent, more relentless, and more dangerous with every passing hour. The film is available for digital rental and sale.
Falling two spots to No. 5 on the chart was Lionsgate’s Greenland 2: Migration, which became available for premium digital rental and sale Jan. 27. Set in the aftermath of a comet strike that devastates most of the Earth, the film follows devoted family man John Garrity (Gerard Butler) and his wife and son after they’re forced to leave the safety of their bunker in Greenland to search for a new home in a shattered world.
Disney’s Zootopia 2 led the chart of the top 10 titles on Fandango’s transactional digital service Fandango at Home for the week ended Feb. 1.
The animated sequel, which became available for premium digital rental and sale on Jan. 27, finds buddy cops Judy Hopps the rabbit and Nick Wilde the fox once again teaming up to crack a new case when they find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile. Meanwhile, the “Zootopia” two-movie bundle came in at No. 4 on the chart.
Landing at No. 2 on the chart was Sony Pictures’ comedic Anaconda, which also became available for premium digital rental and sale Jan. 27. In the film, Doug (Jack Black) and Griff (Paul Rudd) have been best friends since they were kids and have always dreamed of remaking their all-time favorite movie: the cinematic “classic” Anaconda. When a midlife crisis pushes them to finally go for it, they head deep into the Amazon to start filming. But things get real when an actual giant anaconda appears, turning their comically chaotic movie set into a deadly situation.
Debuting at No. 3 on the chart was Lionsgate’s Greenland 2: Migration, which also became available for premium digital rental and sale Jan. 27. Set in the aftermath of a comet strike that devastates most of the Earth, the film follows devoted family man John Garrity (Gerard Butler) and his wife and son after they’re forced to leave the safety of their bunker in Greenland to search for a new home in a shattered world. Meanwhile, the two-movie “Greenland” bundle landed at No. 6 on the chart.
Coming in at No. 5 on the chart was Angel Studios’ animated David, which is available premium digital rental and sale. It recounts the biblical tale of David and Goliath.
The 20th Century Studios sci-fi actioner Predator: Badlands for a third consecutive week led the chart of the top 10 titles on Fandango’s transactional digital service Fandango at Home for the week ended Jan. 25.
The latest entry in the “Predator” franchise, available for premium digital rental and sale starting Jan. 6, deepens Yautja lore by introducing new characters Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) and Thia (Elle Fanning). Set in the future on a deadly remote planet, the film follows Dek, a young Predator outcast from his clan, who finds an unlikely ally in Thia and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.
Debuting at No. 2 on the chart was Paramount’s The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, which became available for premium digital rental and sale Jan. 20. In the film, when an attempt to prove he’s a true big guy accidentally summons the fearsome ghost pirate The Flying Dutchman, SpongeBob and Patrick are swept into a wild underworld quest.
Rising four spots to No. 3 on the chart was Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, which is available for digital rental and on sale for digital purchase. The third “Now You See Me” film finds the original Four Horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and Isla Fisher) reuniting to expose the corruption of a diamond heiress (Rosamund Pike) with connections to international criminals. The cast also includes Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa and Ariana Greenblatt as a new team of illusionists, plus returning cast members Morgan Freeman and Lizzy Caplan.
Falling a spot to No. 4 on the chart was the Universal Pictures musical Wicked: For Good. The sequel to 2024’s Wicked, available for premium digital rental and sale starting Dec. 30, adapts the second half of the 2003 Broadway musical of the same name, which itself is based on a 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire that explores the backstories of the witches featured in The Wizard of Oz. It stars Ariana Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West.
Falling three spots to No. 5 on the chart was Song Sung Blue, which became available for premium digital rental and sale Jan. 13. Based on Greg Kohs’ 2008 documentary of the same name, the film from writer-director Craig Brewer stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as Mike and Claire, two down-on-their-luck musicians who fall in love forming a Neil Diamond tribute band called Lightning and Thunder, rising from a humble garage to dive-bar gigs to unexpected hometown stardom.
The 20th Century Studios sci-fi actioner Predator: Badlands again led the chart of the top 10 titles on Fandango’s transactional digital service Fandango at Home for the week ended Jan. 18.
The latest entry in the “Predator” franchise, available for premium digital rental and sale starting Jan. 6, deepens Yautja lore by introducing new characters Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) and Thia (Elle Fanning). Set in the future on a deadly remote planet, the film follows Dek, a young Predator outcast from his clan, who finds an unlikely ally in Thia and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.
Debuting at No. 2 on the chart was Song Sung Blue, which became available for premium digital rental and sale Jan. 13. Based on Greg Kohs’ 2008 documentary of the same name, the film from writer-director Craig Brewer stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as Mike and Claire, two down-on-their-luck musicians who fall in love forming a Neil Diamond tribute band called Lightning and Thunder, rising from a humble garage to dive bar gigs to unexpected hometown stardom.
Falling a spot to No. 3 on the chart was the Universal Pictures musical Wicked: For Good. The sequel to 2024’s Wicked, available for premium digital rental and sale starting Dec. 30, adapts the second half of the 2003 Broadway musical of the same name, which itself is based on a 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire that explores the backstories of the witches featured in The Wizard of Oz. It stars Ariana Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West.
Returning to the chart at No. 4 was Disney’s Tron: Ares. The film, with Jared Leto in the title role, expands upon the original Tron and Tron: Legacy movies, exploring the battleground between AI and humanity, with a soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails.
Falling two spots to No. 5 on the chart was Universal Pictures’ Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, available for premium digital rental and sale starting Dec. 23. The horror sequel is set one year after the supernatural nightmare at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. A new chapter of terror begins when former security guard Mike’s sister, Abby, sneaks out in search of her animatronic friends: Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy. As terrifying events begin to unfold, dark secrets about the true origin of Freddy’s are revealed, unleashing a long-forgotten horror hidden away for decades.
The 20th Century Studios sci-fi actioner Predator: Badlands led the chart of the top 10 titles on Fandango’s transactional digital service Fandango at Home for the week ended Jan. 11.
The latest entry in the “Predator” franchise, available for premium digital rental and sale starting Jan. 6, deepens Yautja lore by introducing new characters Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) and Thia (Elle Fanning). Set in the future on a deadly remote planet, the film follows Dek, a young Predator outcast from his clan, who finds an unlikely ally in Thia and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.
Falling from the top spot to No. 2 on the chart was the Universal Pictures musical Wicked: For Good. The sequel to 2024’s Wicked, available for premium digital rental and sale starting Dec. 30, adapts the second half of the 2003 Broadway musical of the same name, which itself is based on a 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire that explores the backstories of the witches featured in The Wizard of Oz. It stars Ariana Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West.
Falling a spot to No. 3 on the chart was Universal Pictures’ Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, available for premium digital rental and sale starting Dec. 23. The horror sequel is set one year after the supernatural nightmare at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. A new chapter of terror begins when former security guard Mike’s sister, Abby, sneaks out in search of her animatronic friends: Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy. As terrifying events begin to unfold, dark secrets about the true origin of Freddy’s are revealed, unleashing a long-forgotten horror hidden away for decades.
Rising a spot to No. 4 on the chart was Paramount’s The Running Man, which became available for premium digital rental and sale Dec. 16. Based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, the film is about a deadly game show in which contestants must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins. This version (Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in the 1987 film version) stars Glen Powell, William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, Daniel Ezra, Jayme Lawson, Sean Hayes, Katy O’Brian, Colman Domingo and Josh Brolin.
Falling two spots to No. 5 on the chart was Lionsgate’s Now You See Me: Now You Don’t. The third “Now You See Me” film, also available for premium digital rental and sale starting Dec. 16, finds the original Four Horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and Isla Fisher) reuniting to expose the corruption of a diamond heiress (Rosamund Pike) with connections to international criminals. The cast also includes Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa and Ariana Greenblatt as a new team of illusionists, plus returning cast members Morgan Freeman and Lizzy Caplan.
The Universal Pictures musical Wicked: For Good led the chart of the top 10 titles on Fandango’s transactional digital service Fandango at Home for the week ended Jan. 4.
The sequel to 2024’s Wicked, available for premium digital rental and sale starting Dec. 30, adapts the second half of the 2003 Broadway musical of the same name, which itself is based on a 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire that explores the backstories of the witches featured in The Wizard of Oz. It stars Ariana Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. Meanwhile, the two film bundle of Wicked and Wicked: For Good landed at No. 4 on the chart.
Falling from the top spot to No. 2 on the chart was Universal Pictures’ Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, available for premium digital rental and sale starting Dec. 23. The horror sequel is set one year after the supernatural nightmare at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. A new chapter of terror begins when former security guard Mike’s sister, Abby, sneaks out in search of her animatronic friends: Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy. As terrifying events begin to unfold, dark secrets about the true origin of Freddy’s are revealed, unleashing a long-forgotten horror hidden away for decades. Meanwhile, the two-movie bundle landed at No. 8 on the chart.
Falling a spot to No. 3 on the chart was Lionsgate’s Now You See Me: Now You Don’t. The third “Now You See Me” film, which became available for premium digital rental and sale Dec. 16, finds the original Four Horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and Isla Fisher) reuniting to expose the corruption of a diamond heiress (Rosamund Pike) with connections to international criminals. The cast also includes Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa and Ariana Greenblatt as a new team of illusionists, plus returning cast members Morgan Freeman and Lizzy Caplan. Meanwhile, the three-film bundle landed at No. 10 on the chart.
Dropping two slots to No. 5 on the chart was Paramount’s The Running Man, also available for premium digital rental and sale starting Dec. 16. Based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, the film is about a deadly game show in which contestants must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins. This version (Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in the 1987 film version) stars Glen Powell, William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, Daniel Ezra, Jayme Lawson, Sean Hayes, Katy O’Brian, Colman Domingo and Josh Brolin.
