Paramount Home Entertainment is set to release the Will Ferrell comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy on Blu-ray on August 31, as a Best Buy exclusive. This two-disc "Rich Mahogany Edition" will include both the theatrical version and an "unrated, uncut and uncalled for" version.
Disc two will include Wake Up, Ron Burgundy, another feature comprised of deleted scenes and alternate takes, so far only included in the DVD gift set released in December 2004. There is no information as to whether this bonus feature will be in SD or HD.
Additional in-pack items include a "The Many Months of Burgundy" journal, and twelve trading cards in baseball card packaging.
This was the last title from Paramount that had been released on HD DVD in 2007 but hadn't seen a BD release yet.
This is Will Ferrell's best film and it's probabaly the most quoted film of the last 10 years. Hopefully good sales of this convince Paramount to give the sequel the green light
The best comedy of 2004, day one purchase for me! Just hoping that the second disc, "Wake Up Ron Burgundy" will be a blu-ray and not just the old DVD from 2004. This is gonna be one the best selling catalog titles this year, trust me! "I LOVE LAMP!"
I screamed from the top of my lungs when I read the title for this post..................I couldn't be happier this morning. Possibly one of my favorite movies ever!
I watched this movie TO DEATH when it came to DVD, to the point of quoting the whole movie. Now, several years later, I am ready to watch it again I think. ON BLURAY!!!! But first, I'm on my way to the pants store to fix this optical illusion caused by the pleats. DON'T ACT LIKE YOU'RE NOT IMPRESSED!! LOL!!!
Shit news. Another retailer exclusive. Don't buy it people...not until it's available everywhere. Send the message that we won't be forced to shop at one store just to get what should be available at every store.
Why would people avoid Best buy? They have fair prices and their selection is huge. Who cares if they aren't a mom and pop store, those places are for hippies
I love best buy, i get rewards points for buying stuff, and when i go to pick up blurays i can browse all the other cool stuff, i'm glad this is exclusive to them, they deserve it
Nice to see wake up ron burgendy also get the high def treament. i dont remember but wasnt wake up ron burgendy also exclusive to bestbuy as second disc packaged with the original anchorman dvd years ago when it was first released. the only bad thing about it being exclusive is that if they want they can price it at the 24.99 price point. but hopefully they will have a sale price pretty quick like they did with the wb bestbuy exclusive of spies like us/funny farm bluray earlier this year.
Wdm81 - I'm going to assume your most recent question was addressed to me. My comments have nothing to do with any anti-Best Buy sentiment, of which I have none. I bought a camcorder from them 5 days ago and was completely satisfied with the price, service and quality of the product.
What bothers me is this growing trend of studios offering their products up as retailer exclusives for any length of time, however limited. It's anti-consumer...we should always have the choice of where to buy products like this.
I agree with the whole retailer exclusives bit. I mean, BB will probably charge full MSRP for this and when it finally is released through amazon or others we will see it going for half the price. I have not bought any retailer exclusives yet, unless it is something very major. Almost gave in to Vengeance Trilogy but didn't buy it after reading the reviews.
It is cool to buy things on release day. I mean, I am the first to admit I love buying things as soon as they come out like CDs and BDs, but retailer exclusives aren't really "cool" in my opinion. Like when I bought the Tenacious D DVD at Best Buy only because it had like 30 extra minutes exclusive to BB in the extras and it ended up being not that exciting. Since then I stopped buying exclusives.
The only cool exclusives are things like the Owl ship Watchmen from amazon, etc...where the exclusive extras are truely worth it for collectrs.
Verbal, Ok i get where you are coming from on the whole "exclusive" issue. It personally doesn't bother me though, I prefer to buy my entertainment at Best buy, but if say a title i really want is only at Wal-mart then it's no worry to me to go to wal-mart to pick up the title. The inconvienice factor is non-existant
But like i said i can understand the feeling of being forced to buy from a particular retailer and how that might upset some. But the way i see it, Best buy paid Paramount money to exclusively have the title and it's their right as a business to make deal like this. It's how they stay in business, they need to offer customers something that their competition can't
It's no different then when a department store makes a deal to be the exclusive carrier of a clothes brand or when a fast food place makes a deal with a soda company to only serve their brand of drinks. It's stuff like this that makes business thrive. It may suck but it's how the world works
Why would you do an exclusive on a title that is, arguably, target to a specific market and not a general one? Studios have to stop doing that crap. They are then the first one to cry that their catalogue BDs aren't selling so well.
Best Buy screwed me out of my Rewards points earlier this year with their "reset", I was 20 points shy of a certificate...because they did NOT credit my "Rocky Anthology" BD set for 50 points! Double screwed.
Plus their shady business practices, policies that treat their employees like burger flippers, and so on.
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Stupid retailer exclusives means FULL PRICE plus tax. No competition from Amazon and others.
"It's no different then when a department store makes a deal to be the exclusive carrier of a clothes brand or when a fast food place makes a deal with a soda company to only serve their brand of drinks. It's stuff like this that makes business thrive. It may suck but it's how the world works "
The fast food analogy is completely off the mark...I can buy a Coke anywhere. I don't have to go to McDonald's because it's not the only place I can get one. Anchorman will be exclusive to Best Buy. It's the only place I'll be able to buy one.
The department store one, however, only furthers my point, which you've missed completely. It's not about being "inconvenienced" by having to drive to a different store. Do you know what the word "monopoly" means, and why it's a bad thing? If so, apply it to my argument and you'll get my point. If not, come back when you do and I'll show you how it is relevant to this situation.
This is the best effing news I've heard all day. Seriously. My wife's girlhood dog died, I can't leave for vacation until wednesday because I have to finish writing a damn chapter, and...wow. Anchorman, with the THEATRICAL VERSION!!!!!
I hope this includes the deleted scenes that were a Best Buy exclusive for the DVD release. These were scenes that didn't make it into Wake Up, Ron Burgundy.
Being released on blu-ray won't save this film. Absolutely one of the most terrible attempts at comedy ever. If I want a real laugh I'll go watch a Jacques Tati film, not this garbage.
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