European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Following Are 1990 s lop. 10.videocassettes in . Rentals according to billboard Magazine. 1 look who stalking Ria Columbia. 2. When Harry met Sally Nelson. 3 parenthood Mca Universal. 4 k-9 Mca Universal. A 5 dead poets society Touchstone 6 steel magnolias Ria Columbia. 7 sea of love Mca Universal. 8 Turner and Hooch Touchstone. 9 Black rain Paramount. -10 internal affairs  the top 10 videos sales for the year were 1 Bambi Walt Disney. 2 new kids on the Block Han Glnn Tough live lbs music video. 3 the Little Mermaid Walt Disney 4 lethal weapon 2 Warner 5 the wizard of of Mem a 6 Batman Warner. 7 Honey i shrunk the kids Walt Disney. 8 the land before time Mca Universal 9 who framed Roger Babbit i. Touchstone. A 10 teenage mutant ninja turtles j Cowa Bunga shred head family. J. A 1 a a. A a a. A. I 1 j i a comedy was King in 1990-�?~gun�?T still to Joe Fasbinder United press International if you re headed to a video rental store you probably Are looking for a laugh. A Survey of 600 video stores across the United states by the video software dealers association shows that comedy goner ated 34 percent of video rental Revenue during 1990. Action adventure came in second at nearly 20 percent. Drama was third accounting for about 14 cents of every Dollar spent on videotape rentals at american video stores. Year end statistics compiled by the Vida also indicate that 71.1 percent of households in the United states now have a Var but Only 53 per. Cent own any pre recorded videocassette tapes. Video cameras arc in Only about 11 percent of. Homes a so far. / children arc a major Factor in video rentals. The Elc tonic industries association which contributed figures to the report said 79 percent of the Homes that had a Var in 1990 also had one or More children. Eighty one percent of the owners were married and so percent owned their Homes. The median income of a Var owning family is $38,000  also have a real influence on which tapes get bought at video stores. One third of All such purchases fall into the kid Vid category a rate exceeded Only by the sales of major motion pictures. Adult or a rated videos accounted for 6 percent of All videotape sales in 1990. Programming focused specifically on kids a. Counted for $750 million in retail sales last year. In All americans spent $2.09 billion purchasing videotapes in 1990. The Survey also included statistics from Alexandcr amp associates on the most rented videos of All Vest Orv picture a top gun above with Tom cruise and Kelly Mcgillis tops the All time rental Market Patrick Swayzee so dirty dancing a below came in third. Time. The top 10 and number of times rented a 1. Top gun a 105.5 million a 2. Crocodile Dundee a 66.2 million a 3 dirty dancing�?62.6 million a 4. Three men and a baby a 52.8 million a 5. Platoon �?50.2 million. A 6. The color purple a 49.5 million a 7. Rob Ocop a 47.8 million a 8. Die hard a 47.8jmillion. A 9. Fatal attractions 45.7 million a 10. Lethal weapon a 45.7 million in contrast to rentals the most often purchased videotape of All time was . The extra terrestrial with 12.5 million units sold. That film the Story of a homesick alien and his child pals was also the All time biggest grossing film at North american theater Box of ticks at $386 million. C to pm Jas sunday january 6, 1991 r