Supermarket/Drug May-July 2007

NEWS

Rental kiosks make inroads in supermarket, drug stores
For three distinct retail channels, the supermarket, drug and convenience store businesses each are finding new possibilities with a variation on an old theme: vending machines. Full story

Grocers, drug stores may lead way to DVD burning
Supermarkets and drugstores are at the forefront of retail channels looking at digital content delivery for movies. Full story

UPCOMING TITLES

Acacia/Acorn
Coming May 29 (prebook now), Complete Pregnancy Fitness With Erin O’Brien ($24.99) includes last year’s best-selling DVD Prenatal Fitness Fix and new DVD Postnatal Rescue ($14.99 individually). Together, the DVDs offer safe, fun workouts for before and after childbirth. O’Brien is the wife of Desperate Housewives hunk James Denton, who participates in a partner workout. Dr. Andrew Weil’s Guide to Eating Well (street June 12, prebook May 15; DVD $14.99) is based on the New York Times bestseller Eating Well for Optimum Health. Dr. Weil also addresses dietary supplements, what’s downright dangerous and what can help one’s health.

Allumination
Several repriced titles are streeting June 5 (prebook now; DVD $7.98 each), including An Angel for May, a movie of courage, friendship and love starring Tom Wilkenson; Ernest Borgnine in The Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island (PG), a family adventure in which Danny, his faithful dog and an assorted crew of characters set off in search of treasure; and The New Adventures of Pinocchio, starring Martin Landau.

BCI/Navarre
The animated adventures of Snow White and her Prince continue with new friends and foes in the animated Happily Ever After (street June 5, prebook May 10; DVD $12.98).

Cinema Libre
My First Wedding (PG) stars Rachel Leigh Cook, who mistakenly confesses her fantasies to a biker carpenter whom she mistakes for a priest (street June 12, prebook May 15; DVD $14.99).

Facets
Just released, A Pug’s Life: The Dogumentary (DVD $19.95) explores how these canines are used as therapy dogs, make perfect companions for children and adults and attract customers to retail businesses.

Hart Sharp/WEA
Available June 12, TV Guide Presents Trapped in TV Guide (prebook May 15; DVD $14.95) contains classic moments from favorite TV shows that inspire hidden-camera pranks on unsuspecting people.

Image
Retail shelves are alive with the sound of music with these titles that are all reduced to $14.99 each (street June 19, prebook May 25): Don Henley: Live Inside Job, Steely Dan: Two Against Nature, The Who: Live at the Royal Albert Hall, The Moody Blues: Hall of Fame, Godsmack: Live, Kiss: The Second Coming, Yes: Yessongs, The Cult: Live Cult, Deep Purple: Perihelion, Phil Collins: Live and Loose in Paris and Ramones: Raw.

Lifesize/Koch
Customers can dive into the world of trout in The Underwater World of Trout Vol. 1and 2 (both street June 12, prebook now; DVD $19.98 each), featuring footage of sea-run rainbow trout, brown trout, wild fish, stocked fish, fighting fish and spawning fish, as well as a trout’s point-of-view of an angler.

Lionsgate
Clifford the Big Red Dog Kid Case (street June 5, prebook May 9; DVD $14.98 each) allows preschoolers four opportunities to watch Scholastic Entertainment’s Clifford the Big Red Dog in new DVD packaging for ease of portability: Clifford’s Schoolhouse, Clifford Saves the Day, Big Fun in the Sun and Happy Birthday. Then they can join the lovable Care Bears in active adventures that teach everyone how to be a good sport and that everyone is a winner with Care Bear Fitness Fun (street July 31, prebook June 27; DVD $14.99).

MGM/Fox
Rated G, The Secret of NIMH Family Fun Edition (street June 19, prebook May 26; DVD $19.98) is a two-disc set that celebrates Don Bluth’s animated classic and includes family-friendly interactive games.

MTI
Coming to shelves and kiosks on May 8, Fungus the Bogeyman (PG) is a family fantasy based on Raymond Briggs’ best-selling children’s book (DVD $24.95).

Screen Media/Universal
Repriced Mee-Shee: The Water Giant is about a boy who goes on the adventure of his life when he uncovers the world’s biggest secret. Also repriced is Karate Dog, in which a wisecracking canine partners with a bumbling computer-geek detective to solve his Zen master’s murder and save the world from a biochemical maniac. Both are rated PG (street May 22, prebook May 1; DVD $9.99 each).

Starlight
With a new price point of $6.99 each (street June 12, prebook May 11) come these Hans Christian Andersen titles under The Fairy Tales banner: The Little Mermaid & Other Stories, The Ugly Duckling & Other Stories, Thumbelina Plus the Flying Trunk, The Princess and the Pea & Other Stories, The Snow Queen Part 1 & 2 & Other Stories, The Emperor’s New Clothes & Other Stories, The Wild Swans & Other Stories, The Nightingale & Other Stories and The Hardy Tin Soldier & Other Stories.

Timeless
The Timeless Tales line will street May 8 (prebook now), and the DVDs each have a price point of $5.98. Titles include Anastasia, the story of the last Russian czar’s daughter; Beauty & the Beast, the classic tale of love overcoming all; Camelot, the golden age of King Arthur; Cinderella, an animated version of the classic tale; Hansel & Gretel, the classic Brothers Grimm tale; Hercules, the son of Zeus with strength on Earth, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, featuring Quasimodo, Esmeralda, and Notre Dame; The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen’s story; Mulan, the folktale of a young Chinese maiden; Pocahontas, about the native American maiden and colonist John Smith; Prince of the Nile, the story of Moses; and The Three Little Pigs, how three little pigs defeated a big, bad wolf.

Warner
Geared for preschoolers, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo Vol. 6 (street May 15, prebook now; DVD $14.97) follows the young adventures of everyone’s favorite pooch along with pint-sized versions of Shaggy, Velma, Daphne and Fred as they solve mysteries. What’s New Scooby-Doo? The Complete Second Season (street June 5, prebook May 1; DVD $19.98) sends the Mystery Inc. gang on an endless summer vacation, visiting six different countries from around the globe. From Warner’s library, streeting May 22 (prebook now) are Miss Congeniality Double Feature (both PG-13, DVD $19.97), City of Angels/Michael (PG-13/PG, DVD $14.97) and Cinderella Story/Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (PG/PG, DVD $14.97).

—Compiled by Barbara Wexler

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