With just a few modest new releases hitting the market April 23, retailers focused more on clearing inventory than pushing exclusives.
Best Buy ‘Avengers’ catalog ad.
Best Buy used its weekly ad circular to promote Marvel movies on Blu-ray for fans to watch to prepare for the April 26 theatrical release of Avengers: Endgame. To that end, Best Buy had exclusive Steelbook editions of the newly released 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray editions of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War, at $34.99 each.
Best Buy ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray SteelbookBest Buy ‘Captain America: Civil War’ 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Steelbook
Best Buy is also taking preorders for a Steelbook 4K UHD Blu-ray of Jordan Peele’s Us.
Target didn’t bother to include a movie section in its weekly circular, though it was selling Stephen King movies on DVD for $4.50.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald arrived March 12 with several retailer exclusive purchasing options. Best Buy had two exclusives. One was a Steelbook of the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray combo pack, for $34.99. The other…
Superman fans had a few options for picking up Warner’s new Reign of the Supermen animated movie on Blu-ray. Best Buy offered the new movie with copies of the graphic novel The Death of Superman upon which the movie is…
While Paramount’s Bumblebee was the biggest new release of April 2, it didn’t arrive with much in the way of exclusive editions. Rather, two of the big three retailers touted the title with promotions for their own services. Target, for…
As part of its New Year’s sales, Target is offering shoppers using its app’s Cartwheel mode 15% off DVDs and Blu-rays through Jan. 5, excluding new releases, preorders and clearance items. Cartwheel is a function of the Target app that…
