How are prices determined for new BD releases?

[BigBluu]

Just curious as I cannot figure out how the 5-disc Collector's Edition of Bladerunner can be the same price as the Juno pre-order on Amazon at $27.95. Is it determined by the studios? Or demand? If demand, then how can No Country for Old Men (newly crowned Oscar winner for Best Picture) be priced only at $23.95 even though it's the #1 BD seller on Amazon? I have set a personal limit of $25/BD and I want to get Juno, that's what got me curious. Also want I-Robot, but that too is above my limit.

[SpaceDog]

Blade Runner - Warner Brothers
Juno - Fox
No Country - Disney

Watch the companies, you'll note a particular pattern...

[Chaka]

My personal limit was $10 but man I am going to have to break that real soon.

[Clark Kent]

As noted above each studio determines their own pricing. All studios charge more for a day and date title than an older catalog title. I believe Blade Runner was an experiment by Warner to see if they would sell more copies at a lower MSRP for a somewhat niche catalog title. If the studios thought they could get away with charging $100 for a movie they would. See the Laserdisc era for examples.

[AlexCruz]

I think it has to do with supply and demand. Since No Country for Old Men is REALLY popular right now, Disney knows people are going to want to buy it. They would make more money by lowering the price a little bit rather than raising it. High prices is a turn off. There's actually a math equation for this type of stuff.

Like say if a company was selling a popular movie for $7 and 1000 people ended up buying it. Then the company decided to lower the price to $6, 1200 people ended up buying it.

7 x 1000 = 7000
6 x 1200 = 7200

Disney releases BDs at a starting price of $24.95 usually. No Country for Old Men is $23.95.

[Kairav]

All the prices below are from amazon and are generalized. Sorry if I forgot to include a price in the range below.

Warner
New Movies - $23.95 to $24.95
Catalogue - $19.95 to $27.95

Sony
New Movies - $26.95 to $29.95
Catalogue - $14.95 to $20.95

Fox
New Movies - $27.95
Catalogue - $27.95

Disney
New Movies - $23.95
Catalogue - $19.95 to $23.95

Lionsgate
New Movies - $24.95 to $26.95
Catalogue - $13.95 to $20.95

MGM
New Movies - $26.95 to $27.95
Catalogue - $19.95 to $24.95

[WickyWoo]

you should really be listing SRP, not amazon prices

Just curious as I cannot figure out how the 5-disc Collector's Edition of Bladerunner can be the same price as the Juno pre-order on Amazon at $27.95.

Because the hard/expensive part really only had to be done once, and the documentaries were 2 DVDs.

As has been said time and again, pressing discs is trivial when it comes to pricing. That's why you see 8 disc 50 movie public domain sets for $30. It's what's on them that's expensive. Since the video only had to be compressed once, and most of the manipulation went on behind the scenes. Couple that with the fact that Blade Runner went into the black 20 years ago, and voila, $39.99 SRP.

[stow123]

Originally Posted by BigBluu

Just curious as I cannot figure out how the 5-disc Collector's Edition of Bladerunner can be the same price as the Juno pre-order on Amazon at $27.95. Is it determined by the studios? Or demand? If demand, then how can No Country for Old Men (newly crowned Oscar winner for Best Picture) be priced only at $23.95 even though it's the #1 BD seller on Amazon? I have set a personal limit of $25/BD and I want to get Juno, that's what got me curious. Also want I-Robot, but that too is above my limit.

Whether theyre by fox or not lol

[Lord_Stewie]

Originally Posted by BigBluu

Just curious as I cannot figure out how the 5-disc Collector's Edition of Bladerunner can be the same price as the Juno pre-order on Amazon at $27.95. Is it determined by the studios? Or demand? If demand, then how can No Country for Old Men (newly crowned Oscar winner for Best Picture) be priced only at $23.95 even though it's the #1 BD seller on Amazon? I have set a personal limit of $25/BD and I want to get Juno, that's what got me curious. Also want I-Robot, but that too is above my limit.

for some time the prices for softwares and players will be high. Not all the public has adapted to this new format in market. which is why i believe the PS3 will have a strategic agenda for the future. since the PS3 is by far the cheapest and best BD player in the market. in a process of maybe 1 year to 2 years prices will begin to decline since a bigger percentage of the consumers decide to move on to the next format.