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  • Merchandising: Secrets of ‘Fantastic’ Exclusives

    All three of the major national home entertainment retailers offered exclusive editions for Warner’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, released June 28. Best Buy offered its typical Steelbook edition for the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray combo pack, for $34.99. Target offered the Blu-ray/DVD combo with a packed-in 16-page “Newt’s Journal” booklet containing beast sketches … Continue reading “Merchandising: Secrets of ‘Fantastic’ Exclusives”


  • Merchandising: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Exclusives

    There were no shortages of retailer exclusives tied to the June 21 Blu-ray release of Lionsgate’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. The film stars Nicolas Cage as a fictionalized version of himself, who is recruited by the CIA to infiltrate the operation of a suspected international criminal who is also a huge movie fan. … Continue reading “Merchandising: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Exclusives”

  • Merchandising: Secrets of ‘Fantastic’ Exclusives

    All three of the major national home entertainment retailers offered exclusive editions for Warner’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, released June 28. Best Buy offered its typical Steelbook edition for the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray combo pack, for $34.99. Target offered the Blu-ray/DVD combo with a packed-in 16-page “Newt’s Journal” booklet containing beast sketches … Continue reading “Merchandising: Secrets of ‘Fantastic’ Exclusives”

  • Merchandising: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Exclusives

    There were no shortages of retailer exclusives tied to the June 21 Blu-ray release of Lionsgate’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. The film stars Nicolas Cage as a fictionalized version of himself, who is recruited by the CIA to infiltrate the operation of a suspected international criminal who is also a huge movie fan. … Continue reading “Merchandising: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Exclusives”

  • Merchandising: Retailers Bite on ‘Morbius’ Exclusives

    Among the new releases of June 14, each of the big three national home entertainment retailers offered their own exclusive editions for Morbius, Sony Pictures’ latest adaptation of its cadre of Spider-Man characters. Best Buy offered its typical Steelbook treatment for the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray combo pack of Morbius, for $34.99. Walmart had the … Continue reading “Merchandising: Retailers Bite on ‘Morbius’ Exclusives”

  • Merchandising: Get a ‘Bourne’ Collection 4K Steelbook at Best Buy

    The big retailers didn’t do much to promote the scant new releases of June 7, but Best Buy had a new 4K Steelbook boxed set of the “Bourne” action franchise starring Matt Damon. The 4K Steelbook edition of Universal Pictures The Bourne Complete Collection could be had for $64.99. Best Buy’s website indicated copies were … Continue reading “Merchandising: Get a ‘Bourne’ Collection 4K Steelbook at Best Buy”

  • Merchandising: Best Buy Prepares for Father’s Day

    May 31 didn’t see anything of note released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc, so there wasn’t much in the way of exclusive promotions for retailers to tout. So Best Buy looked ahead to Father’s Day (June 19) with its “Top Deals” at BestBuy.com. A banner that stated “Give Dad one of his favorite movies” linked … Continue reading “Merchandising: Best Buy Prepares for Father’s Day”

  • Merchandising: Plenty of Exclusives for ‘The Batman’

    Warner Bros. Home Entertainment’s The Batman arrived on disc May 24 with exclusive editions from each of the big three retail chains. The reboot of the comic book franchise from director Matt Reeves stars Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader, as he investigates The Riddler (Paul Dano), who is murdering Gotham City government officials. It … Continue reading “Merchandising: Plenty of Exclusives for ‘The Batman’”

  • ‘Angel Heart’ 4K Steelbook Due July 12 Exclusively at Best Buy

    Writer-director Alan Parker’s 1987 psychological horror-thriller Angel Heart will arrive July 12 for the first time ever on 4K Ultra HD plus Blu-ray plus digital SteelBook from Lionsgate, exclusively at Best Buy.   Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Parker (Mississippi Burning), Angel Heart stars two-time Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro (The Godfather Part … Continue reading “‘Angel Heart’ 4K Steelbook Due July 12 Exclusively at Best Buy”

  • Merchandising: Steelbooks for ‘Hell’ and ‘Belle’

    The retail promotions for the May 17 new disc releases include a couple of special Steelbook releases. Best Buy is offering an exclusive Steelbook edition of Lionsgate’s 2016 film Hell or High Water on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc. The film follows a desperate father (Chris PIne) who learns the bank is going to take … Continue reading “Merchandising: Steelbooks for ‘Hell’ and ‘Belle’”

  • Vudu Offering Horror Sale for Friday the 13th

    Fandango’s transactional VOD service Vudu is offering sales on scary movies over the weekend starting Friday the 13th. On Friday, May 13, only Vudu is offering a special sale of the original eight-movie bundle (“Friday the 13th” parts one through eight) in HDX for $13 (the HDX bundle is worth more than $100, according to … Continue reading “Vudu Offering Horror Sale for Friday the 13th”

  • Merchandising: Charting ‘Uncharted’ at Retail

    May 10 marked the Blu-ray and DVD release of titles such as Sony Pictures’ Uncharted and Warner’s Dog. But an afternoon check of some stores around the Orange County, Calif., area indicated it was one of those weeks in which clerks were in no rush to stock the shelves with copies of them. Displays at … Continue reading “Merchandising: Charting ‘Uncharted’ at Retail”

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