The Weekly RoundUp
The Features
– Megan Fox (Transformers – 2007)
– Rachel McAdams (Married Life – 2007)
– Helen Hunt (Then She Found Me – 2007)
The Prices
(CC) after a title = New release in the Criterion Collection.
The Disclaimer
The Specials
**Yay! All of this week’s titles are being released in their OAR!
--Amazon is advertising the special Megatron packaging of the 2-disc SE of Transformers.
--Not sure what’s up at bestbuy.com this week…but a bunch of titles are listed with odd price figures. Best Buy, historically, has listed almost all new releases with prices figures ending in 99-cents ($19.99, for example). This week, there are a number of titles that are listed at prices such as $36.74 or $26.24.
--Best Buy has an EXCLUSIVE GIFT SET of The Office: Season 4 for $42.99. Includes a T-shirt, wrist band & water bottle.
--A 2/$20 deal when you buy BOTH Mickey’s Clubhouse: Mickey’s Storybook Surprises and My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Hundred Acre Wood Haunt @ BB.
--AND, save $10 @ BB when you buy BOTH Desperate Housewives: Season 4 and Eli Stone: Season 1. Must be purchased on same receipt.
--Best Buy is advertising a FREE EXCLUSIVE COMIC BOOK with the purchase of Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow on DVD.
--Supernatural: Season 3 @ Best Buy features an EXCLUSIVE COLLECTIBLE ’67 CHEVY IMPALA MODEL. On pack.
--Best Buy has a number of Blu-ray Discs on sale for $14.99: The Aviator, Alexander Revisited, A Clockwork Orange, Enter the Dragon, The Fugitive, March of the Penguins, Swordfish. And, for $19.99: 16 Blocks, 300, Ocean’s thirteen, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Scorpion King 2, Shoot ‘Em Up, Step Up 2 the Streets, Troy, We Are Marshall.
--I’m not really sure how to explain this…but Best Buy is advertising an EXCLUSIVE NEW RELEASE for this week: Seasons 1 and 2 of something called “Scott Baio is 45 and Single and "Scott Baio is 46 and Pregnant” ($14.99 apiece).
--Best Buy Odds and Ends: Best Buy has a list of relatively recently-released DVDs for sale @ $9.99.
--Like amazon.com (above) Circuit City is also advertising the special Megatron packaging with their copies of Transformers SE (2-disc).
--Purchase Desperate Housewives: Season 4 @ CC and get a FREE ABC-TV SAMPLER DISC. Includes pilot episodes of new ABC series. While supplies last.
--Also at CC, when you buy The Office: Season 4 on DVD…get an EXCLUSIVE FREE KEYCHAIN. Keychain features The Office stapler in gelatin mold gag.
--At CC, a number of Blu-ray Discs are on sale for $14.99: The Aviator, Bullitt, The Devil’s Rejects, Enter the Dragon, The Fugitive, March of the Penguins, The Punisher, The Shining, Stargate, Swordfish, Terminator 2.
--And, buy ANY HBO title at CC this week and get a FREE TRUE BLOOD SAMPLER DISC.
--Circuit City Odds and Ends: A list of titles for $4.99.
--Like amazon.com and Circuit City (above), Target also has the Megatron packaging with its 2-disc SE of Transformers.
--Target’s got a nice EXCLUSIVE DELUXE EDITION of The Office: Season 4 ($36.99) for sale this week. Contains 60 minutes of bonus cast footage and a notepad. Quantities limited. No rainchecks.
--At Target, save $5, instantly, when you purchase BOTH Mickey’s Clubhouse: Mickey’s Storybook Surprises AND My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Hundred Acre Wood Haunt. Must be purchased on same receipt. Quantity limited. No rainchecks.
--Get a FREE $10 TARGET GIFTCARD with the purchase of BOTH Desperate Housewives: Season 4 AND Eli Stone: Season 1 @ Target. Must be purchased on same receipt.
--Target is advertising an EXCLUSIVE CALENDAR with its copies of Supernatural: Season 3.
--Target Odds and Ends: None this week.
The Features
– Megan Fox (Transformers – 2007)
– Rachel McAdams (Married Life – 2007)
– Helen Hunt (Then She Found Me – 2007)
The Prices
| SD-DVD TITLE | Amazon | BestBuy | CrcCity | Target | Costco |
| The Big Bang Theory: Season 1 | $18.99 | $20.24 | $21.99 | - | $20.99 |
| Bright Lights, Big City SE | $10.99 | $9.99 | $14.98 | - | - |
| Cat Stevens: Tea For the Tillerman | $12.99 | $12.99 | $12.99 | - | - |
| Cheers: Season 10 | $27.99 | $22.49 | $34.99 | - | - |
| Desperate Housewives: Season 4 | $38.99 | $37.49 | $36.99 | $37.99 | $39.99 |
| Eli Stone: Season 1 | $27.99 | $26.24 | $34.99 | $29.99 | $27.89 |
| Ghost Whisperer: Season 3 | $44.99 | $37.49 | $29.99 | - | - |
| Honey West: Complete Series | $35.99 | $34.99 | $29.99 | - | - |
| How to Rob a Bank | $17.99 | $14.99 | $14.99 | - | - |
| It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! | $13.99 | $14.99 | $17.99 | - | - |
| Life: Season 1 | $19.99 | $18.74 | $19.99 | - | - |
| Married Life | $9.99 | $19.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| Mickey Mouse’s Storybook Surprises | $14.99 | $14.99 | $14.99 | $14.99 | - |
| Moontide (Fox Film Noir) | $12.99 | $12.99 | $14.98 | - | - |
| My Friends…: Hundred Acre Wood Haunt | $14.99 | $14.99 | $14.99 | $14.99 | - |
| Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow | $14.99 | $14.99 | $12.99 | $14.99 | - |
| The Office: Season 4 | $30.99 | $32.99 | $32.99 | $29.99 | - |
| The Promotion | $13.99 | $14.99 | $14.99 | - | - |
| Road House (Fox Film Noir) | $12.99 | $12.99 | $14.98 | - | - |
| Supernatural: Season 3 | $38.99 | $36.74 | $36.99 | $37.99 | - |
| Time After Time SE | $10.99 | $12.99 | $14.98 | - | - |
| Then She Found Me | $19.99 | $19.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| Transformers (1-D) | $13.49 | $14.99 | $12.99 | - | - |
| Transformers SE (2-D) | $24.99 | $19.99 | $17.99 | $19.99 | - |
| BLU-RAY TITLE | Amazon | BestBuy | CrcCity | Target | Costco |
| Black Mask | $20.95 | $24.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| Eraser | $19.95 | $24.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| Every Which Way But Loose | $19.95 | $24.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| The Gauntlet | $19.95 | $24.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| The Invincible Iron Man (Animated) | $20.95 | $24.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| Marine Aquarium | $16.95 | $19.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| Married Life | $26.95 | $29.99 | $34.99 | - | - |
| Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow | $19.95 | $24.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| Outbreak | $19.95 | $24.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| Robotech: Shadow Chronicles | $20.95 | $19.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
| Then She Found Me | $19.95 | $24.99 | $29.99 | - | - |
| Transformers | $24.95 | $27.99 | $27.99 | $27.99 | - |
| Under Siege 2: Dark Territory | $19.95 | $24.99 | $19.99 | - | - |
(CC) after a title = New release in the Criterion Collection.
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
**Yay! All of this week’s titles are being released in their OAR!
--Amazon is advertising the special Megatron packaging of the 2-disc SE of Transformers.
--Not sure what’s up at bestbuy.com this week…but a bunch of titles are listed with odd price figures. Best Buy, historically, has listed almost all new releases with prices figures ending in 99-cents ($19.99, for example). This week, there are a number of titles that are listed at prices such as $36.74 or $26.24.
--Best Buy has an EXCLUSIVE GIFT SET of The Office: Season 4 for $42.99. Includes a T-shirt, wrist band & water bottle.
--A 2/$20 deal when you buy BOTH Mickey’s Clubhouse: Mickey’s Storybook Surprises and My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Hundred Acre Wood Haunt @ BB.
--AND, save $10 @ BB when you buy BOTH Desperate Housewives: Season 4 and Eli Stone: Season 1. Must be purchased on same receipt.
--Best Buy is advertising a FREE EXCLUSIVE COMIC BOOK with the purchase of Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow on DVD.
--Supernatural: Season 3 @ Best Buy features an EXCLUSIVE COLLECTIBLE ’67 CHEVY IMPALA MODEL. On pack.
--Best Buy has a number of Blu-ray Discs on sale for $14.99: The Aviator, Alexander Revisited, A Clockwork Orange, Enter the Dragon, The Fugitive, March of the Penguins, Swordfish. And, for $19.99: 16 Blocks, 300, Ocean’s thirteen, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Scorpion King 2, Shoot ‘Em Up, Step Up 2 the Streets, Troy, We Are Marshall.
--I’m not really sure how to explain this…but Best Buy is advertising an EXCLUSIVE NEW RELEASE for this week: Seasons 1 and 2 of something called “Scott Baio is 45 and Single and "Scott Baio is 46 and Pregnant” ($14.99 apiece).
--Best Buy Odds and Ends: Best Buy has a list of relatively recently-released DVDs for sale @ $9.99.
--Like amazon.com (above) Circuit City is also advertising the special Megatron packaging with their copies of Transformers SE (2-disc).
--Purchase Desperate Housewives: Season 4 @ CC and get a FREE ABC-TV SAMPLER DISC. Includes pilot episodes of new ABC series. While supplies last.
--Also at CC, when you buy The Office: Season 4 on DVD…get an EXCLUSIVE FREE KEYCHAIN. Keychain features The Office stapler in gelatin mold gag.
--At CC, a number of Blu-ray Discs are on sale for $14.99: The Aviator, Bullitt, The Devil’s Rejects, Enter the Dragon, The Fugitive, March of the Penguins, The Punisher, The Shining, Stargate, Swordfish, Terminator 2.
--And, buy ANY HBO title at CC this week and get a FREE TRUE BLOOD SAMPLER DISC.
--Circuit City Odds and Ends: A list of titles for $4.99.
--Like amazon.com and Circuit City (above), Target also has the Megatron packaging with its 2-disc SE of Transformers.
--Target’s got a nice EXCLUSIVE DELUXE EDITION of The Office: Season 4 ($36.99) for sale this week. Contains 60 minutes of bonus cast footage and a notepad. Quantities limited. No rainchecks.
--At Target, save $5, instantly, when you purchase BOTH Mickey’s Clubhouse: Mickey’s Storybook Surprises AND My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Hundred Acre Wood Haunt. Must be purchased on same receipt. Quantity limited. No rainchecks.
--Get a FREE $10 TARGET GIFTCARD with the purchase of BOTH Desperate Housewives: Season 4 AND Eli Stone: Season 1 @ Target. Must be purchased on same receipt.
--Target is advertising an EXCLUSIVE CALENDAR with its copies of Supernatural: Season 3.
--Target Odds and Ends: None this week.
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