This could be the last of the Paramount watch articles, since today is the big day when Paramount rejoins the Blu-ray bandwagon.

Today we officially see the release of Bee Movie, Face/Off and Next as well as the return of the catalogue titles from the Viacom studios. However, it looks like a bit of a haphazard trickle as opposed to a flood of titles filling the shelves near and far.

Bee Movie appears to be pretty much a no show. I visited my local Fry’s Electronics store and found no sign of the title. Looking at Best Buy online I found it not available for store pick up in any of the 7 or so stores in my wider area. DVD Empire shows no stock on hand. Add that Amazon has it listed for June 3rd, and we seem to have a delay of some kind with the title.

That said, Amazon has Next listed for June 3rd also, and has no valid listing at all for Face/Off while I saw both of these titles clearly available at Fry’s today.

The return of the catalogue titles seems a bit hit and miss also - we see Amazon has shifted their dates back to June 3rd for these also and Fry’s had no sign of the catalogue re-issues - however there are reports that at least Wal-mart has the re-issues including Shooter which was sold out almost everywhere.

So Paramount and DreamWorks are back - I guess we can forgive them for having a hard time filling the supply chain after taking over half a year off from Blu-ray…

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