Went to my Big Lots in Hudson, NY today... picked up:

The Wiz
Reality Bites (10th Anniversary Edition)
Bowfinger
Very Bad Things
The Sugarland Express (only copy I saw)

I saw many of the titles mentioned above, I will probably go back and pick up a few of the more common ones at my store next week.

Also if anyone is wondering, the UPC symbols are in tact, there's just a white sticker over the plastic on the back.

Stopped by several stores here in the greater Los Angeles area. Some stores had a 2 tray restock, other stores had a 4 tray restock of Universal/HBO titles.

Saw the following:

Madigan
Walking the Dead
EDtv
Scoop
K-Pax
MacArthur
Brick
Red Dragon
Head Over Heals
They All Laughed (25th Anniv. Ed)
Five Aces
Water World
Yanks
Tempo
Whoopi - Back to Broadway (20th Anniv Ed.)
Face the Music
The Iceman Interviews (keepcase version)
Reality Bites (10th Anniv Ed.)

and many others...

Beebs!!! Which one did you go to?? I'm closest to Mall 205 (abysmally miniscule dvd selection) and usually go to Gresham (better, but not fantastic selection).

I don't know if its been mentioned, found Two Minute Warning in the new shipment today.

Iwas given bad info last week; clsest store to me (Washington State) did get the Universal/Focus batch. Pretty weak titles & alot of just a few titles.

Picked these up today..


Reality Bites : 10th Anniversary Ed
Brick
The Sugarland Express
The River Wild
Heaven Help Us
The Hitchhiker Vol 2
The Hitchhiker Vol 3

No luck finding Vol 1 though.

I live in the Beaverton/Hillsboro area. The one I go to is at 185th & TV Highway. I've been to the Mall 205 one, and you're right... it's not good. I think this local one has relatively low traffic and they hide the DVDs on a rack near the greeting cards lately. Still, they get picked clean within a week or two of a restock.

Ah.. shoulda known. You Westies always get the good stuff.

Finally got a new supply. Nothing different than what's already been posted with anywhere from 2-8 copies of each Sony title and mostly 1 each of the anime.

My local store finally got a full DVD display. I think this is the first time this particular store has ever gotten the display. Usually they just have a small shelf of DVD's. I bought:

1941 CE (only copy I saw)
Bowfinger
Waking the Dead
Brick
DC Cab

The Big Lots in Orangevale, CA had quite a few of the already mentioned DVDs. I picked up River Wild, Wiz, Body and Soul, Roaring Twenties and a bunch of others. I'm pissed though, I opened up my copy of Norma Jean and Marilyn (purchased months ago) and it was sans DVD!

That's why I always open my DVDs right away, even if I won't have time to watch them for several years. (And I know there's still the chance of them being defective by then, but I've been lucky so far.)

If you have a receipt w/ HBO DVDs, you could probably just use that receipt. I'ts not like they scan the barcode.

Found Saraband starring Liv Ullmann and is directed by Ingmar Bergman. This is a followup to his 1973 movie "Scenes from a Marriage". His final movie he directed.

Still looking for:
Shattered Glass
The Girl in the Cafe
Elizabeth I

ooo, totally have to pick up saraband

One of the two local Big Lots stores put out Universal 2-DVD sets today. Two titles packaged together for $6 total.

Some of the titles were....

the 2 "Babe" pictures
Rowan Atkinson's "Mr. Bean" and "Johnny English"
Tremors/Tremors 2
the first 2 "Mummy" pics with Brendan Fraser
"Ray" w/ Jamie Foxx and "The Hurricane" w/ Denzel Washington
"Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers"
"Virus" and "End of Days"
plus...some of the later "American Pie" direct-to-video releases.

Found the Robotech Chronicles, Afro Samurai, and the Tsubasa/xxxHolic Double Feature mentioned earlier, but also:

Basilisk 1
Beck 1, 2
Burst Angel 2
Case Closed S2 V1
Gunslinger Girl 2
Kodocha 1
Negima 301
One Piece the Movie #8
Samurai 7 #1, 2
School Rumble 2, 5
Tsubasa 2
xxxHolic 2, 3

More than half I've never seen before at BL.

Found Brick today. Looks like the store I hit got some more of the HBO titles in, but sadly no They All Laughed.

Found a ton of Funamation titles today (including Afro Samurai: Spike Version, Samurai 7 # 1 & 2, Witchblade #3). Also a bunch of new Universal titles.

I only ended up getting:

K-Pac
Greedy
Robotech Chronicles (2 Disc)

I saw "They All Laughed" in only 2 stores with only one or two copies. If you can find it, there is a feature length audio commentary by director Peter Bogdonovich and an interview of Peter Bogdonovich with Wes Anderson.

Does this contain the fullscreen or widescreen version of the first film?

I'm not sure about "Babe"...I'll check again today when I hit the store with actual cash.

Another 2-disc set I forgot to add above was "Undercover Brother" and "How High".

A few more Funimation/Clamp titles:

Case Closed Movie: The Fourteenth Target
Fullmetal Alchemist 12, 13
School Rumble 1

I checked on the "Babe" 2-DVD set and couldn't see if the original film was the widescreen release or not.

Most of the titles are wrapped side-to-side but the "Babe Valu Pack" was wrapped front to back. Neither title had a "Widescreen Edition" on the cover and I was unable to see the rear on either DVD.

Other 2-DVD sets today that I noticed...

"The Producers" (N.Lane) / "Meet the Fockers"
"8 Mile" / "How High"

Just a heads up for those that might have missed something at Big Lots, check out Wherehouse.com right now. They have a LOT of the titles that have been seen at Big Lot's for very close to the $3 price(using the 20% off and free shipping that's going on right now).

As an example, I missed Point of Origin with Ray Liota and John Leguizamo(okay, I had it in my hand and chose not to buy it and karma taught me a lesson when I went back to get it). Just picked it up, among other things, for $3.19 + tax + free shipping.