Weekly RoundUp 12-12-2017 (1 Viewer)

[Adam Lenhardt]

I had no references for a release of Luke Cage this week, Shakeel. So I'm feeling confident that you were misdirected somehow. In fact, I can't find information on a release date ANYWHERE.

Marvel only announced the title last week, in a very late press release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



MARVEL'S LUKE CAGE:
THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON

Includes Exclusive Never-Before-Seen
Bonus Feature and Collectible
Packaging Designed by Joe Quesada


Gritty, groundbreaking and profoundly powerful, Marvel's Luke Cage: The Complete First Season blazes with action and suspense while redefining what it means - and what it costs - to be a true hero.

Framed for a crime he didn't commit, escaped convict Luke Cage is just trying to live under the radar. Mysteriously blessed - or cursed - with superhuman strength and unbreakable skin, he hides his abilities and shuns getting involved. But when ruthless crime boss Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes turns his beloved city of Harlem into a bloodbath of chaos and carnage, Luke is forced to come out of the shadows and embrace his ultimate destiny in this riveting fusion of dark drama, hip-hop and classic super hero thrills.

Cast: Mike Colter as Luke Cage, Simone MIssick as Misty Knight, Theo Rossi as Hernan 'Shades' Alvarez, Alfre Woodard as Mariah Dillard, Jaiden Kaine as Zip, Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple. Created By: Cheo Hodari Coker. Executive Producers: Marvel's Luke Cage is Executive Produced by series Showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker (SouthLAnd, Ray Donovan) along with Jeph Loeb (Marvel's Jessica Jones, Punisher) and Jim Chory (Marvel's Jessica Jones, Marvel's Punisher).

All-New Bonus Feature: Offstage at Harlem's Paradise - Join stars Mike Colter (Luke Cage), Alfre Woodard (Mariah), Theo Rossi (Shades) and Simone Missick (Misty) in an intimate round table discussion about life during production of Season 1 of Luke Cage.

Episodes:

1. Moment of Truth
2. Code of the Streets
3. Who's Gonna Take the Weight?
4. Step in the Arena
5. Just to Get a Rep
6. Suckas Need Bodyguards
7. Manifest
8. Blowin' Up the Spot
9. DWYCK
10. Take It Personal
11. Now You're Mine
12. Soliloquy of Chaos
13. You Know My Steez

MARVEL'S LUKE CAGE: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Release Format: 4-Disc Blu-ray
Run Time: Approximately 702 minutes (13 episodes, excludes bonus)
Rating: TV-MA, US & Canada: PG (violence, mature themes), CF: G
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:2
Audio: English 5.1 DTS-HDMA, DVS 2.0 Dolby Digital
Subtitles: English SDH, German, Japanese

This release seems like a very last minute decision on Marvel's part, so I'm not at all surprised that retailers don't yet have any information about it.

 

[Mike Frezon]

That's nuts.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Even if it had been announced earlier, Luke Cage = Marvel = Disney = no Amazon due to their ongoing feud, which at this point is about a year old with no signs of slowing down. Ugh.

 

[B-ROLL]

That's nuts.

um ... this ,,,

is "Nuts"

I went to Target and one of the sets on sale is the Godfather Trilogy Omerta edition blu-ray for $29.99
Online seems pretty much to match what I saw ...

Wizarding World 9-Film Collection: Potter Films+Fantastic Beasts (Blu-ray) $64.99
DC 4 Film Set: Wonder Woman/Suicide Squad/BvS/Man of Steel (Blu-ray) $47.99
Downton Abbey: The Complete Collection (DVD) $69.99
Fast & Furious 8-Movie Collection (Blu-ray + Digital $59.99
Full House: The Complete Series Collection [32 Discs] (DVD) $47.99
Jurassic Park Collection - 4 Movies, Including Jurassic World (DVD) $26.99
Planet Earth I & II (DVD) $43.99
The Bourne Ultimate Collection (Blu-ray + Digital) $39.99

Your mileage may vary ... please do not back up as severe tire damage may result ..

 

[Todd Erwin]

My review of Game of Thrones: Season Seven is now live!

 

[DavidJ]

I didn't see it if it was posted, Mike, but Cartwheel has 20% discounts on the first four Harry Potter flicks on 4k (Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire). Regular price is apparently $24.99, which means pre tax price should be right at $20 a pop. There is also 5% off Despicable Me 3, all formats, and 10% of the Men in Black Trilogy 4k.

I'll probably bite on HP because I have the others. And that'll be it for HP until Fantastic Beasts 2 comes out.

Thank you, as always.

I stopped by Target today for DM3, but the Cartwheel discount appears to be gone.

 

[B-ROLL]

I stopped by Target today for DM3, but the Cartwheel discount appears to be gone.

It was only for Sunday

 

[Jason_V]

It was only for Sunday

I stopped by Target today for DM3, but the Cartwheel discount appears to be gone.

I didn't notice the expiration date on Sunday when I saw it. Thanks David...I need to be more observant next time, apparently.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

If Best Buy decides to reveal what it's exclusives are for the latest Game of Thrones season, I might be persuaded to pick that up.

I ended up going with the Walmart retailer exclusive, because their bonus disc ("Building the Unimaginable: Inside the VFX Department") sounded the most interesting to me.

I really dug the White Walker sigil Best Buy cover, but I couldn't justify paying $5 more for a piece of cardboard.

Good chance this will be my last Blu purchase of 2017.

 

[B-ROLL]

Apparently Target will be having a Saturday & Sunday promotion this weekend 12/16-12/17 "$10 off top 31 movies" I assume it will be a cartwheel deal ...unless I read the sign wrong

 

[Malcolm R]

I was going to download the Target/Cartwheel app to my phone, but I got a pop-up saying it would require access to nearly every function on my phone including microphone, contacts, location, etc. I didn't think the invasion of privacy warranted saving a couple dollars.

 

[Mike Frezon]

I think, Malcolm, the only thing that my Cartwheel has access to is my camera so that I can scan SKUs into the app to find out if there's a discount available.

I have "Locations" set to "while using app" and Notifications set to "Off."

 

[Mike Frezon]

I just opened the app itself to check out settings. I didn't find anything different than what I said above (which I found in my phone's settings app) but it DID tell me that Cartwheel is being folded into the regular Target app and is being phased out as a standalone app.

 

[Malcolm R]

I just opened the app itself to check out settings. I didn't find anything different than what I said above (which I found in my phone's settings app) but it DID tell me that Cartwheel is being folded into the regular Target app and is being phased out as a standalone app.

Perhaps that's the difference? I think I was looking at downloading the standard Target app (which I thought I needed to get Cartwheel).

Perhaps I'll look at it closer once the local-ish Target opens at UMall next year.

 

[Mike Frezon]

I just opened my Target app (I think it's smart that they are consolidating the two apps) and found it has been updated (and obviously now includes the Cartwheel). And the settings permissions look identical to what I had on the Cartwheel. And, of course, you can set them to be whatever you want.