The Weekly RoundUp
The Features
– Marlon Brando (The Wild One – 1953)
– WB Oscar-Winning/Nominated ‘Toons
– Clark Gable & Joan Crawford (Strange Cargo – 1940)
– Aaron Eckhart & Catherine Zeta-Jones (No Reservations – 2007)
– In the Shadow of the Moon – 2007
– Edward Woodward (The Equalizer – 1985)
– Poitier, Houghton, Hepburn, Tracy (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – 1967)
– George of the Jungle – 1967
– Anne Hathaway (Becoming Jane – 2007)
The Prices
| SD-DVD TITLE | Amazon | BestBuy | CrcCity | Target | Costco |
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| The Amateurs | $19.99 | $14.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| Batman Double Feature | $13.49 | $12.99 | $14.98 | - | - |
| Beatrix Potter Collection | $22.49 | $29.99 | $19.99 | - | $21.99 |
| Becoming Jane | $17.99 | $19.99 | $17.99 | $19.99 | $18.99 |
| Black August | $17.99 | $17.99 | $17.99 | - | - |
| Blade: The Series | $27.99 | $34.99 | $34.99 | - | - |
| Blue State | $19.99 | $19.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| The Bubble | $24.99 | $24.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| The Charlie Chan Collection: Vol. 4 | $34.99 | $39.99 | $49.98 | - | - |
| Comedy Central Roast: Flavor Flav | $14.99 | $12.99 | $17.99 | - | - |
| Dallas: Season 8 | $27.99 | $27.99 | $34.99 | - | - |
| Dedication | $13.99 | $14.99 | $17.99 | - | - |
| Dirty Laundry | $19.99 | $19.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| The Equalizer: Season 1 | $37.49 | $39.99 | $49.98 | - | - |
| Family Ties: Season 3 | $29.99 | $34.99 | $34.99 | - | - |
| Fat Girls | $22.49 | $19.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| General Hospital – Night Shift: S1 | $20.99 | $19.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| George of the Jungle: Complete Series | $14.99 | $14.99 | $17.99 | - | - |
| Girlfriends: Season 3 | $26.99 | $29.99 | $24.99 | - | - |
| Gone Baby Gone | $17.99 | $16.99 | $17.99 | $19.99 | $18.99 |
| Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (40th AE) | $14.99 | $14.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| I Could Never Be Your Woman | $19.99 | $16.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| In the Shadow of the Moon | $14.99 | $14.99 | $17.99 | - | $12.99 |
| Introducing the Dwights | $20.99 | $29.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| Joan Crawford Collection: Vol. 2 | $37.49 | $44.99 | $49.98 | - | - |
| Lubitsch Musicals (Eclipse Series) (CC) | $41.99 | $69.99 | $59.95 | - | - |
| Martian Child | $19.99 | $19.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| No Reservations | $19.99 | $16.99 | $17.99 | $16.99 | $19.49 |
| Peter's Friends | $9.99 | $12.99 | $14.98 | - | - |
| Pokemon: Season 1 Volume 3 | $27.99 | $34.99 | $34.99 | - | - |
| Power Rangers: Oper. OverDrive Vol. 4 | $14.99 | $14.99 | $17.99 | - | - |
| Power Rangers: Oper. OverDrive Vol. 5 | $14.99 | $14.99 | $17.99 | - | - |
| Primal | $24.29 | $19.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| Romance and Cigarettes | $16.99 | $19.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| Scooby-Doo Double Feature | $13.49 | $12.99 | $14.98 | - | - |
| Some Girls | $9.99 | $9.99 | $14.98 | - | - |
| Stanley Kramer Film Collection | $41.99 | $49.99 | $59.95 | - | - |
| Tell Me You Love Me: Season 1 | $47.99 | $44.99 | $69.98 | - | - |
| Three Can Play That Game | $16.99 | $19.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| Touch (1997) | $9.99 | $12.99 | $14.98 | - | - |
| Tyler Perry’s What’s Done in the Dark | $12.99 | $12.99 | $12.99 | $14.99 | - |
| **Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married? | $18.99 | $15.99 | $13.99 | $16.99 | - |
| WB Presents Acad. Award Anim. Coll. (3-D) | $29.99 | $29.99 | $34.99 | - | - |
| WB Presents Acad. Award Anim. Coll. (1-D) | $14.99 | $14.99 | $17.99 | - | - |
| We Own the Night | $18.99 | $19.99 | $17.99 | $16.99 | - |
| The Wiz (30th Anniversary Edition) | $14.99 | $14.99 | $17.99 | - | - |
| Zapped! | $9.99 | $9.99 | $14.98 | - | - |
| HD-DVD TITLE | Amazon | BestBuy | CrcCity | Target | Costco |
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| The Amateurs | $23.95 | $29.99 | $29.99 | - | - |
| BLU-RAY TITLE | Amazon | BestBuy | CrcCity | Target | Costco |
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| The Amateurs | $19.95 | $29.99 | $29.99 | - | - |
| Becoming Jane | $23.95 | $19.99 | $34.99 | $29.99 | $23.89 |
| Gone Baby Gone | $23.95 | $29.99 | $34.99 | $29.99 | $23.89 |
| No Reservations | $24.95 | $29.99 | $29.99 | $29.99 | $26.99 |
| We Own the Night | $26.95 | $26.99 | $34.99 | $29.99 | - |
Individual titles included in box sets listed above:
Batman Double Feature: Batman and Mr. Freeze, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.
The Joan Crawford Collection: Volume 2: A Woman’s Face, Flamingo Road, Sadie McKee, Strange Cargo, Torch Song.
Lubitsch Musicals (Eclipse Series) (CC): Love Parade, The Smiling Lieutenant, One Hour With You, Monte Carlo.
Scooby-Doo Double Feature: Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island.
The Stanley Kramer Film Collection: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (40th Anniv. Edition, Ship of Fools, The Member of the Wedding, The Wild One, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Presents Academy Award Animation Collection (15 Winners – 26 Nominees): (From the Warner Brothers Home Video press release
via amazon.com: )
Disc 1:
Academy Award® winning shorts featured on the DVDs:
1) The Milky Way (MGM),
2) Yankee Doodle Mouse (MGM, Tom & Jerry),
3) Mouse Trouble (MGM, Tom & Jerry),
4) Quiet Please (MGM, Tom & Jerry),
5) The Cat Concerto (MGM, Tom & Jerry),
6) Tweetie Pie (WB),
7) The Little Orphan (MGM, Tom & Jerry),
8) For Scent-Imental Reasons (WB, Pepe Le Pew),
9) So Much for so Little (a special educational Warner Brothers short),
10) Two Mouseketeers (MGM, Tom & Jerry),
11) Johann Mouse (MGM, Tom & Jerry),
12) Speedy Gonzales (WB),
13) Birds Anonymous (WB, Tweety & Sylvester),
14) Knighty-Knight Bugs (WB, Bugs Bunny)
15) The Dot and the Line (Chuck Jones classic MGM cartoon).
Discs 2 & 3:
Academy Award® nominated shorts featured on the DVDs include
1) Popeye The Sailor Meets Sinbad The Sailor (Paramount/Fleischer)
2) Superman (Paramount/Fleischer)
3) Walky Talky Hawky (WB, Foghorn Leghorn)
4) One Droopy Knight (MGM, Droopy)
plus 12 more un-announced titles.
Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Presents Academy Award Animation Collection (15 Winners): (From the Warner Brothers Home Video press release
via amazon.com: )
Academy Award® winning shorts featured on the DVDs include
1) The Milky Way (MGM),
2) Yankee Doodle Mouse (Tom & Jerry),
3) Mouse Trouble (Tom & Jerry),
4) Quiet Please (Tom & Jerry),
5) The Cat Concerto (Tom & Jerry),
6) Tweetie Pie (WB),
7) The Little Orphan (Tom & Jerry),
8) For Scent-Imental Reasons (Pepe Le Pew),
9) So Much for So Little (a special educational Warner Brothers short),
10) Two Mouseketeers (Tom & Jerry),
11) Johann Mouse (Tom & Jerry),
12) Speedy Gonzales (WB),
13) Birds Anonymous (Tweety & Sylvester),
14) Knighty-Knight Bugs (Bugs Bunny)
15) The Dot and the Line (Chuck Jones classic MGM cartoon). (Issued as a bonus on The Glass Bottom Boat.)
The Disclaimer Standard disclaimer: All prices are taken from the websites of each chain, or from their printed Sunday advertisements. All prices are subject to change by each chain. Prices and inventory in-store may or may not match the website price.
"LP" in the RoundUp table means a store’s Sunday flyer says "Low Price". That means I could not locate a definite price for the item, and the ad is all I have to go on. Retailers use these phrases in advertisements so that they do not violate MAP (Minimum Advertised Price) agreements with the studios. Doing so can cost them thousands or even millions of dollars in co-op advertising funds.
I, obviously, cannot include EVERY title released in a given week in the RoundUp. The titles included are those that I am interested in...as well as those which I consider will be of interest to a majority of consumers (and sometimes I’ll miss one!). I don't get paid for this, and I don't have the time to list every DVD. So, please don't complain! If there is a title not included in the RoundUp that you want to see, just look it up yourself, and be nice enough to post and share the results with everyone!
Note that I cannot include Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club prices in the RoundUp. They set prices at individual stores based on nearby competition, so there is no way I can say here what price you'll find at YOUR local Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club location. And, as always, Circuit City does not guarantee their sale prices in Hawaii. |
The Specials
**BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL! Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married? is available in
both OAR and MAR versions...
get the right one!
--Best Buy is having another one of its sales on combined purchases of new releases this week! You can save $5 when you buy ANY TWO movies from the following list…or SAVE $10 when you buy ANY THREE movies from the list:
Must be purchased on same receipt.
$16.99: Gone Baby Gone, No Reservations.
$19.99: Becoming Jane, Martian Child, Snow Buddies, We Own the Night.
$29.99 (all Blu-ray discs): Becoming Jane, Gone Baby Gone, No Reservations, We Own the Night.
--Also @ BB, purchase ANY Tyler Perry play on DVD for just $5 after the purchase of either TP’s Why Did I Get Married or What’s Done in the Dark.
Must be purchased on same receipt.
--At Best Buy: most WWE titles are on sale 25% off regular price.
No rainchecks. Only title excluded: The Legacy of Stone Cold Steve Austin.
--Best Buy has three titles on sale for $9.99 which include one FREE LID’S MOVIE TICKET TO SEE THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES. Titles include: Charlotte’s Web (2007), Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate events, Transformers.
Ticket Value = $7.50. More titles in-store. Minimum 6 per store. No rainchecks.
--Best Buy is also doing a “Buy One, Get One Free” on a selection of HD-DVDs:
$24.99: 40 Year Old Virgin, Casino, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Inside Man, King Kong, Van Helsing, .
$29.99: The Bourne Ultimatum, Breach, Disturbia, Hot Fuzz, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Shooter, Shrek the Third, Transformers.
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Best Buy Odds and Ends:Best Buy has a number of DVDs listed @ $4.99 and @ $9.99.
--Circuit City has an EXCLUSIVE FREE JOURNAL available with its copies of Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married?
While supplies last.
--And, save $5 on the purchase of ANY Tyler Perry DVDs with the purchase of Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girl ($9.99).
In store only. Must be purchased on same receipt.
--CC also has a deal in which you can save $6 on the purchase of BOTH Becoming Jane and Gone Baby Gone ($19.99 apiece).
Must be purchased on same receipt.
--@ CC, buy Across The Universe and get an EXCLUSIVE FREE CIRCUIT CITY+Napster download card.
Get two months free PLUS five free downloads.
--And, @ Circuit City, for all you romantic-types, you can save $5 on the joint purchase of Two Days in Paris and Feast of Love.
Must be purchased on same receipt.
--For some of you romantic-types, you can buy a DVD for your “special someone” for just $3.99 (list includes such romantic titles as Air Force One and xXx) AND get $10 OFF an order with 1-800-FLOWERS.COM
In-store only. Minimum Flower order of $50. See display for details. DVDs may vary by store. Other titles shown include: Great Expectations, Moonstruck, Terms of Endearment, Sleepless in Seattle (10th AE) and a huge stack of others.
--CC has another long list of $6.99 DVDs to choose from this week. Buy one of them and get EXCLUSIVE FREE MOVIE CASH to see EITHER The Other Boleyn Girl or Vantage Point.
Both films in theaters 2-22-2008.
--Circuit City also has a list of $19.99 HD-=DVDs this week: Batman Begins, Blood Diamond, Goodfellas, The Last samurai, The Phantom of the Opera, Unforgiven.
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Circuit City Odds and Ends: CC also has a longer list of $29.99 HD-DVDs this week.
--At Target, there is EXCLUSIVE MOVIE CASH to see Meet the Browns with the purchase of Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married? DVD.
Movie Cash value = $8.00. Quantities limited. No rainchecks.
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Target Odds and Ends: Target has selections of DVDs listed at $7.50 and $10 this week.
