Weekly RoundUp 3-19-2019 (1 Viewer)

[Mike Frezon]

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Weekly RoundUp 3-19-2019

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[Mike Frezon]

Happy St. Patrick's Day, RoundUppers!

Mary Poppins Returns for me. And, I'm fascinated by the idea of Becoming Astrid. So I may spring for that someday as well.

Hope there's something for you this week!

 

[Jake Lipson]

As always, thank you for your work, Mike!

Big week for me.

Into the Spider-Verse and -- finally -- Far From Heaven are on the way from Amazon, and I'll get Mary Poppins Returns from Target.

Becoming Astrid had a really brief run at my arthouse and looked potentially interesting but I wasn't able to get to it. I'll look for that whenever it hits a streaming platform.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Ernie and Pete say, "top o' the mornin'!"

 

[Malcolm R]

Some prices from Best Buy web site:

Mary Poppins Returns
4K Steelbook $34.99
4K $29.99
Blu $24.99
DVD (not available? I also checked walmart.com and deepdiscount.com no one shows a DVD only release)

Mary Poppins (1964)
Blu Steelbook $19.99

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4K $27.99 (corrected)
Blu Steelbook $27.99
Blu $22.99
DVD $19.99

I have Spider-Man 3D pre-ordered from Amazon Germany. If anyone wants to look for it there, note that the title is slightly different: Spider-Man: A New Universe. Region coding is not yet verified, though it's expected to be all region/region-free as with Sony's other releases.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Thanks, Mike! Just Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse on UHD for me.

And, I'm fascinated by the idea of Becoming Astrid. So I may spring for that someday as well.

It's frustrating how foreign films and movies from small indie distributors are increasingly DVD only. It feels like we're sliding backwards.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4K $24.99
Blu Steelbook $27.99
Blu $22.99
DVD $19.99

Where are you seeing that $24.99 price for Into the Spider-Verse 4K? The Best Buy website has a preorder price of $27.99.

 

[Malcolm R]

Where are you seeing that $24.99 price for Into the Spider-Verse 4K? The Best Buy website has a preorder price of $27.99.

Sorry, my mistake. It is $27.99. Corrected above in my list.

Now I can see why this gives Mike a headache, and I only listed a couple titles.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Mary Poppins (1964)
Blu Steelbook $19.99

I didn't know Best Buy was doing a steelbook for the original. Cool.

If I didn't already have the original on Blu-ray, I'd probably try for both of them in steelbook form, as I like the artwork on the Returns steelbook way better than the regular release artwork. However, since I do have the original already, I'll just get the basic edition for uniformity's sake. It would be weird to have one keepcase and one steelbook next to each other for the same series of films. Besides, I don't really need to be paying more for steelbooks this week anyway given the sheer volume of new titles I want.

But the original's steelbook does look cool.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Now I can see why this gives Mike a headache, and I only listed a couple titles.

Heavy is the mantle....

 

[TravisR]

I'll pick up The Deadly Mantis, Mary Poppins Returns and Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse at some point in time.

 

[Matt Hough]

Big week: Mary Poppins Returns, Spider-Man, Far from Heaven, The Deadly Mantis. and likely some others on sale over the coming months.

Thanks for the prices, Mike.

 

[Mike Frezon]

And I have just updated the grids to include links to two UHD reviews: Lord of War and Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse

 

[Scott Merryfield]

Thanks, as always, Mike. Somewhere down the road when a sale occurs, I will pick up Spider-verse and Detour.

 

[Jeff Cooper]

Mary Poppins Returns does have an Amazon listing despite not being included in the grid. Who knows if they'll actually ship?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6317597650/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[Mike Frezon]

Mary Poppins Returns does have an Amazon listing despite not being included in the grid. Who knows if they'll actually ship?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6317597650/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Thanks for pointing that out, Jeff!

Ron posted the link in the MPR 4k release thread a couple days ago and I thought I had added it to thi week's WRU, but I must have lost it in a copy/past error.

It has now been added.

I pre-ordered it from Amazon as soon as I saw Ron's post...so I'll be a guinea pig. If it doesn't ship, I don't think it'll be too hard to find a copy elsewhere.

 

[Jake Lipson]

I pre-ordered it from Amazon as soon as I saw Ron's post...so I'll be a guinea pig.

Good luck with that. The standard Blu-ray edition had a listing at full price for a while and then disappeared. Regardless of the status of the listings, I've just gotten to the point where I don't trust Amazon with a Disney title. I don't even bother anymore.

 

[Jeff Cooper]

Thanks for pointing that out, Jeff!

Ron posted the link in the MPR 4k release thread a couple days ago and I thought I had added it to thi week's WRU, but I must have lost it in a copy/past error.

It has now been added.

I pre-ordered it from Amazon as soon as I saw Ron's post...so I'll be a guinea pig. If it doesn't ship, I don't think it'll be too hard to find a copy elsewhere.

That's exactly my situation as well. I found the link initially in Ron's post and pre-ordered it thinking why not? If I don't get a shipping notice by Tuesday then I'll cancel it and go to the store.

 

[Jeff Cooper]

Just got an email saying they expect it to arrive on the 21st.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Just got an email saying they expect it to arrive on the 21st.

Me, too.

 

[Jason_V]

Mary Poppins and Spider-Man at some point; I'm just not entirely sure when. Thanks Mike!