GooglePlay VOD Chart Goes Awol and Exactly How Is ‘Woody Woodpecker’ a Netflix Original?

Tomorrow, “Barbie” (Warner Bros.) will make its home-viewing debut at $24.99 for rental, $29.99 for digital download, and will presumably sweep all #1 positions for weeks to come.

The extent may depend on the as-yet undated PVOD arrivals of “Oppenheimer,” “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning: Part One,” and “Sound of Freedom.”For now, our usual chart lineup is down one list: Google Play mysteriously has the same films in the same order for more than a week.

In that universe, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is still #1 while “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” has yet to chart.“Strays” Courtesy Universal PicturesOther #1 slots reflect the ways iTunes and Vudu calculate their lists.

“No Hard Feelings” (Sony), which had an early rental price reduction to $5.99 after success at $19.99, is #1 on iTunes, which calculates by transactions.

Just-released R-rated comedy “Strays” (Universal) leads at Vudu, which ranks by revenue.“Hard” is in sixth place at Vudu,…

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