STILL SURPRISED that this title as a new Fox title is not being shared with HMV or allocated to HMV in the first place as an exclusive, just like other recent new Fox titles in SB such as:-
THE SCORCH TRIALS, THE MARTIAN, THE REVENANT, FANTASTIC 4 and AGENT 47.
Also surprised that Zavvi have allegedly pre-sold their reported allocation of 4,000 pieces in such a short period of time particularly as this is not WEA and is available in other territories so I imagine we are not talking about a shortage of this steelbook but a figure in the tens of thousands.
Just my personal feeling (and does not reflect the view of . . . ) but waiting to hear news that Zavvi only had/have 2,000 pieces to sell with a further 2,000 made available at HMV soon.
We shall see.
The other possibility, and just spitballing here, is that maybe there's an agreement in place that allows Zavvi to have exclusivity with this new Fox title while HMV gets exclusivity with THE HATEFUL 8 - an EIV title which one might expect to be with Zavvi - like other recent EIV titles - (though admittedly all catalogue titles) such as:-
THE CROW, THE DEPARTED, GANGS OF NEW YORK, HUGO, DREDD, LOCKOUT and the upcoming(?) SAW, AMERICAN HUSTLE, BLADE 2 & TRINITY and SILVER LININGS.