 Finding Nemo has taken almost $340m at US box offices |
Hit animated film Finding Nemo is released on video and DVD in the US on Tuesday - and is expected to continue its record-breaking success. The film is the most profitable cartoon in US cinema history and the biggest hit of the year at US box offices.
It could now break Spider-Man's record of selling seven million DVD and VHS copies in the first day of release.
Distributor Buena Vista said it expected Finding Nemo to become the most popular DVD of 2003.
Buena Vista Home Entertainment president Robert Chapek said Finding Nemo had generated "a great deal of interest".
"The volume of bonus material on the second disc, I believe, will make this the best-selling title of the year on DVD," he told the Hollywood Reporter.
DVD extras
Finding Nemo was made by Pixar, the studio behind Toy Story and Monsters Inc, and is about a fish's underwater search for his son.
It features the voices of actors Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres.
Brooks said: "I believe that the creators did an exceptional job from beginning to end, and the extras on the DVD are actually special."
The DVD set includes a Jean-Michael Cousteau documentary about the Great Barrier Reef, an early Pixar short film, Knick Knack, and a preview of their next release, The Incredibles.
Finding Nemo took almost $340m (�200m) at US box offices, making it more popular than the year's other biggest hits - Pirates of the Caribbean, The Matrix Reloaded and Bruce Almighty.
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