The Features
– Cary Grant (North By Northwest –1959)
– Jimmy Stewart (It's a Wonderful Life – 1946)
–Denzel Washington (The Taking of Pelham 123 – 2009)
– Alastair Sim & Cast (A Christmas Carol – 1951)
– The Big Heat – 1953
– Sienna Miller (GI Joe: Rise of Cobra – 2009)
– Helena Bonham Carter (Howard's End – 1992)
– Robert Young, Claudette Colbert & Melvyn Douglas (I Met Him in Paris – 1937)
– Marlon Brando & Teresa Wright (The Men – 1950)
The Prices
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| SD-DVD TITLE | Amazon | BestBuy | Target | Costco |
| Aliens in the Attic | $18.49 | $17.99 | $17.99 | |
| All About My Mother | $13.99 | $14.99 | ||
| Answer Man | $18.99 | $22.99 | ||
| Buck Rogers (70th Anniversary Edition) | $29.99 | |||
| Claudette Colbert Collection | $34.99 | $44.99 | ||
| Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics | $44.99 | $44.99 | ||
| Command Performance | $14.99 | $14.99 | ||
| The Dead | $9.49 | $9.99 | ||
| Doctor Who: Black Guardian Trilogy | $38.99 | $49.99 | ||
| Doctor Who: The War Games | $31.99 | $39.99 | ||
| The Donna Reed Show: Season 3 | $27.99 | |||
| Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America... | $13.99 | $13.99 | ||
| Forrest Gump | $24.49 | $29.99 | $19.99 | |
| Food, Inc. | $18.99 | $16.99 | ||
| Fraggle Rock: A Merry Fraggle Holiday | $8.99 | $9.99 | ||
| Fraggle Rock: Complete Final Season | $19.99 | $24.99 | ||
| Fraggle Rock: Complete Series | $69.99 | $79.99 | $67.99 | |
| GI Joe-Real American Hero: Season 1.2 | $19.99 | $17.99 | ||
| GI Joe: Resolute | $13.99 | $14.99 | ||
| GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra (1-disc) | $16.99 | $15.99 | $15.99 | $18.99 |
| GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2-disc) | $22.99 | $22.99 | $22.99 | |
| Gravestoned | $13.99 | $14.99 | ||
| Hardwired | $17.49 | $19.99 | ||
| Here's Lucy: Season 2 | $19.99 | $19.99 | ||
| I Love You, Beth Cooper | $19.99 | $17.99 | $16.99 | |
| It's a Wonderful Life | $19.99 | $17.99 | ||
| Law of Desire | $13.99 | $14.99 | ||
| Matador | $13.99 | $14.99 | ||
| The Men | $13.49 | $12.99 | ||
| Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed In... | $16.99 | $19.99 | $16.99 | |
| Mission: Impossible - Season 7 | $34.99 | $39.99 | ||
| Mission: Impossible - Complete Series | $187.99 | $234.99 | ||
| Mummies: Secrets of the Pharoahs (IMAX) | $17.99 | $17.99 | ||
| Mutants | $24.49 | |||
| The Narrows | $19.99 | $24.99 | ||
| Nat'l Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | $27.99 | $27.99 | ||
| Night Watcher | $19.49 | $24.99 | ||
| North By Northwest (50th Anniv. Edition) | $12.49 | $16.99 | ||
| Not Forgotten | $14.99 | $14.99 | ||
| Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Live | $37.49 | $32.99 | ||
| The Rockford Files - Movie Coll.: Vol. 1 | $19.49 | $19.99 | ||
| Ruby-Spears Superman | $19.99 | $24.99 | ||
| Say Anything | $12.99 | $14.99 | ||
| The Shield: Complete Series | $115.99 | $109.99 | $106.99 | |
| Spin City: Season 3 | $29.99 | $34.99 | ||
| Star Wars - Clone Wars: Season 1 | $30.99 | $34.99 | $29.99 | |
| The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) | $18.49 | $15.99 | $16.99 | $18.99 |
| TCM Greatest Classic Films Coll.: Holiday | $16.99 | $24.99 | ||
| TCM Greatest Classic Films Coll.: Comedy | $15.99 | $19.99 | ||
| TCM Greatest Classic Films Coll.: Family | $19.99 | $24.99 | ||
| TCM Greatest Classic Films Coll.: Hitchcock | $15.99 | |||
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 7 | $20.99 | $24.99 | ||
| Terminator Salvation: Machinima Series | $7.49 | $9.99 | ||
| Walt Disney Treasures - Zorro: Season 1 | $38.99 | $44.99 | $38.89 | |
| Walt Disney Treasures - Zorro: Season 2 | $38.99 | $44.99 | $38.89 | |
| Where God Left His Shoes | $13.99 | $14.99 | ||
| White Christmas (Anniversary Edition) | $14.99 | $19.99 | ||
| Wings of Desire (CC) | $27.99 | $34.99 | ||
| Wolverine & X-Men: Beginning of the End | $9.99 | $9.99 | ||
| Wolverine & X-Men: Volumes 1 - 3 | $19.99 | $24.99 | ||
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | $13.99 | $14.99 |
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| BLU-RAY TITLE | Amazon | BestBuy | Target | Costco |
| Aliens in the Attic | $26.99 | $25.99 | $25.99 | |
| The Answer Man | $22.99 | $20.99 | ||
| A Christmas Carol (1951) | $16.99 | $17.49 | ||
| Command Performance | $17.99 | $13.99 | ||
| Direct Action | $12.49 | $10.49 | ||
| Food, Inc. | $20.99 | $20.99 | $24.99 | |
| Forrest Gump | $23.49 | $24.99 | $22.99 | |
| GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra | $19.99 | $24.99 | $24.99 | $27.99 |
| Howard's End (CC) | $26.99 | $30.09 | ||
| I Love You, Beth Cooper | $26.99 | $20.99 | $25.99 | |
| It's a Wonderful Life | $21.99 | $24.99 | ||
| Love Actually | $17.99 | $13.99 | ||
| Mummies: Secret of the Pharoahs | $15.99 | $13.99 | ||
| The Narrows | $22.99 | $24.49 | ||
| Nat'l Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | $33.99 | $24.99 | ||
| North By Northwest (50th Anniv. Edition) | $24.49 | $24.99 | ||
| Not Forgotten | $19.99 | $13.99 | ||
| Rocky: The Undisputed Collection | $67.49 | $54.99 | ||
| Say Anything | $20.99 | $17.49 | ||
| Star Wars - Clone Wars: Season 1 | $34.99 | $47.99 | ||
| The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) | $25.99 | $24.99 | $26.99 | $26.99 |
| Transformers: Two Movie Collection | $41.99 | $41.99 | $44.99 | |
| Two Girls and a Guy | $14.49 | $17.49 | ||
| Wings of Desire (CC) | $26.99 | $30.09 |
(CC) after a title = New release in the Criterion Collection.
Individual Titles in the Collections Listed Above:
Claudette Colbert Collection (DVD): Three-Cornered Moon, The Maid of Salem, I Met Him in Paris, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, No Time for Love, The Egg and I.
Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics (DVD): The Big Heat, 5 Against the House, The Lineup, Murder By Contract, The Sniper.
TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Holiday (DVD): Christmas in Connecticut (1945), A Christmas Carol (1938), The Shop Around the Corner, It Happened on Fifth Avenue.
TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Comedy (DVD): Arsenic and Old Lace, A Night at the Opera, The Long Long Trailer, Father of the Bride.
TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Family (DVD): Lassie Come Home, Flipper (1963), The Incredible Mr. limpet, National Velvet.
TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Hitchcock (DVD): Suspicion, Strangers on a Train, The Wrong Man, I Confess.
Rocky: The Undisputed Collection (Blu-ray): Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Rocky Balboa.
Transformers: Two Movie Collection (Blu-ray): Transformers, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.
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. 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, PLEASE 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, Circuit City is still out of business...even in Hawaii (where they NEVER guaranteed their prices anyway). |
The Specials
--LARGER-THAN-USUAL price discrepancies, this week, between the Best Buy flyer and bestbuy.com on a number of new release titles (up to $4 difference on some new releases!). So, if you are thinking of picking up a title at your local store, you MAY want to consider doing a purchase on BB.com and an in-store pickup.
--Best Buy, this week, has $5 INSTANT SAVINGS when you buy ANY VERSION of Ice Age with Aliens in the Attic. Must be purchased on same receipt. Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is shown...but the text says "ANY VERSION OF ICE AGE".
--Also, SAVE $10 when you buy the new Blu-ray of Forrest Gump AND ALSO PURCHASE Braveheart OR Gladiator ($29.99 apiece) on Blu-ray.
--The following Action Films are on sale on DVD for $4.99: Terminator 2, Behind Enemy Lines, Hitman, marine, Total Recall, Behind Enemy Lines 2, Man in the Line of Fire, True Lies, Minority Report, Peacemaker, The Saint (1997), Collateral Damage.
--The following blu-ray titles are on sale at Best Buy:
$9.99: Carrie, entrapment, The Graduate, Napolean Dynamite, Road House, Robocop, The Terminator, Usual Suspects, Righteous Kill, Reservoir Dogs, Sunshine Cleaning, Blazing Saddles, Terminator 3, Bullitt, Beerfest, Total Recall, Ninth Gate, Stargate, Traitor, Kickboxer.
$14.99: Primal Fear, Bruce Almighty, Cinderella Man, Field of Dreams, Fletch, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Seabiscuit, Constantine, The Lost Boys, 2010.
$19.99: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, National Treasure 2, PotC: At World's End, Gran Torino, Body of Lies, 17 Again, Orphan, Observe & Report, Wanted, Role Models.
--Best Buy also is advertising a FREE $5 Best Buy Gift Card when you buy ANY TWO of the following holiday titles on DVD: Elf ($9.99), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Snow Buddies, Muppet Christmas Carol, Fred Claus, The Polar Express 3-D, Barbie's A Christmas Carol (all $14.99 apiece), Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, White Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life ($19.99 apiece). Gift Card toward toward future purchase, online offer may vary. Must be purchased on same receipt.
--The following DVDs are on sale for $14.99 apiece at BB: X-Men Origins: Wolverine, I Love You Man, Crank 2, Duplicity, State of Play.
--Best Buy Odds and Ends: Best Buy is advertising an EXCLUSIVE 4-DVD set of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live for $24.99.
--Target, this week, has a whole lot of TV on DVD on sale:
$12.99 each: Arrested Development: Seasons 1-3, Family Guy: Volumes 1-7, The Simpsons: Season 12, 24; Seasons 1-7.
$14.99 each (doublepacks): Everybody Loves Raymond: Seasons 3&4, Full House: Seasons 1&2, M*A*S*H: Seasons 1&2.
$18.99 each: Californication: Season 2, The Big Bang Theory: Season 2 and the following doublepacks: That '70s Show: Seasons 5&6, Prison Break: Seasons 1&2, Scrubs: Seasons 1&2.
--Target also has the following Blu-ray titles for sale (Each title shown and selected others):
$14.99: Kill Bill Volume 1, Kill Bill Volume 2, Independence Day, Patton.
$19.99: National Treasure, Wall-E, Harry Potter & Order of Phoenix, Gremlins.
--Target also has a great deal on a Player/Software combo. Buy the Philips Blu-ray player shown in the ad (model # not given) AND any one of the following Disney Blu-ray titles (Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney: Earth) for $159. Items packaged separately. Quantities limited. No rain checks.
--and Target is avetising an ONLINE ONLY offer for some Blu-ray 2-packs for just $22: Cinderella Man/Seabiscuit, Daredevil/Fantastic Four, The Other Boleyn Girl/A Knight's Tale. Titles shown and dozens more from all movie categories. Reg. $39.99-$49.99)
--Target Odds and Ends: A list of DVD titles for $4.75 and $7.50.
