WMAangel

I went into my local Blockbuster this morning to rent Miss March, but apparently they are not carrying it! The lady at the counter checked all the other stores in the city, and none of them are renting it (only a few of them have it only to buy)....
Does this mean the writing is on the wall for the company? If they are not even going to be carrying a new release title by a major studio that is advertised in the weekly Best Buy and Target ads, this has to raise a red flag as to the financial health of their stores....even thought this film was not any kind of major hit, it is not like it was some tiny release by some indie film production company, or an obscure catalog release!
It should be noted that Miss March is being rented by Blockbuster Online (which looks like where I will try and get it from instead)....

Juicy.Fruit84

That is weird, maybe there trying to get more people online.

Groucho

I don't even know what this is. Is this the "hilarious" comedy where Anna Faris plays the Playboy bunny gets kicked out in the mansion and has to live in the real world?

Snowmaker

No, that's House Bunny. The chick in this movie looks hotter.

smashthesymbols

That's The House Bunny. This is the "hilarious" comedy where a guy wakes up from a coma to find out his high school girlfriend is in Playboy.

Frankly I'm not sure why you'd want to rent it. But it's certainly odd that Blockbuster wouldn't carry a major release. I wonder if it's that way everywhere or if your town is just an odd case.

gonzoisking

I work at a Blockbuster and I think it's either 1 of 2 things:

1. I checked last week to see if we were getting Miss March because I wanted to rent it and we had some on order but hadn't received them yet. Some studios have been really crappy about getting stuff to us on time. It's possible the employee at the store was stupid and didn't know how to check if they had any on order. That being said I then noticed that this was a Fox title it got me thinking that it could be something else...

2. Fox started producing "rental" copies of their films a few months ago. These copies only contain the film and no special features and these are the versions we carry for rent. Perhaps because Miss March was such a disaster at the box office they elected to not produce these rental only titles and wouldn't let blockbuster carry the regular "for sale" copies for rent.

This is all just speculation of course, but when I go into work again I'll look into it and let you know what I find out.

Ash Ketchum

I thought "Miss March" was a sequel to "Little Women."

Gizmo

Meh. Not missing much I'm sure.

LickTheABCs

I thought it was funny. But I like "The Whitest Kids U'Know" so..

EdTheRipper

Me too. The facial expressions of Trevor Moore were freaking hysterical.

scottp120

All the Blockbuster stores around me have closed up shop. No big loss. I haven't rented a movie at Blockbuster in years. Netflix and Redbox took a huge chunk out of their business.

My Other Self

I thought it was hilarious. It was off-the-wall stupid humor and was great. Meh.

critterdvd

All the blockbusters around me have gone away too. Guess the writing is on the wall for all non-vending machine in person rentals...

writer106

There are only a couple of Blockbusters in my city.

OldBoy

I guess Blockbuster is finally setting some standards. Bravo Blockbuster...bravo!

Matthew Chmiel

It's probably because Blockbuster has atrophy.

[The only funny part of an unfunny movie that has a group of people that are usually funny.]

EdTheRipper

Same here. Blockbuster, FYE and Hollywood have all closed locations around here in the past year or so.

Corey31

Despite the complete flop this was in the theatres, they still produced Rental Copies according to VideoEta: http://videoeta.com/movie/101430

The Monkees

Good. I hope this company does go out of business. That company has no clue what the hell they are doing anyways.

I got it from RedBox, it was okay.

highclassrob

The Blockbuster near me didn't have Dragonball or Green Lantern either! Two more major releases missing. That's surprising and can't be a good sign.

project86

The Blockbuster I used to work at just (they're a franchise) said that they're not even getting movies from their distributor. So that means that they're having to special order about 3 movies of each as they come out, and sometimes they don't even get some of the bigger titles.

Silverscreenvid

Any time a company is in trouble financially, its suppliers have to decide how much credit to keep extending it. Each distributor uses different critieria, and some seem to have cut Blockbuster off.

If Blockbuster does go out of business, its distributors will probably have to write off whatever hasn't been paid for.

WMAangel

I can't speak for Dragonball (wasn't looking for it), but my store DID have Green Lantern....it was under the kids section on the new release wall, did you look there?

orangecrush

Yeah, I am sure all their employees can easily find work elsewhere too.

The Monkees

Well I just dislike the company that much.