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"Office Space" Follow-Up Gets Very Limited Release

suntimes.com — Want to know when Mike Judge ’s follow-up movie to “Office Space” is coming out? It’s been out … for a week

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  • 5thfreedom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Unfortunately, it's not even showing in San Antonio. Man I can't wait for the DVD!
    • chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -5/+60all cult films do better on DVD anyway.

      Does anyone even remember Office Space when it came out... I don't.
    • dmoney06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Is there a trailer for this anywhere?
    • n8r0n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8You would think this is the type of movie the Alamo Drafthouse would pick up, such a shame.
    • ZenKai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Woo7! SHowing in Orange County, CA!

      @drmoney: can't find a thing. IMDB is devoid as well. though their reviews seem very promising: "Final Note: If seeing our youth becoming gang-banger wanna-be's, acting like redneck/ ghetto trash and being proud of it... if you are educated and cultured in anyway and can see how our country is spiraling out of control into an abyss of stupidity, for god sakes, watch this movie. " And "In fact, this movie is essentially Planet of the Apes, but with people who are the mental equivalent of apes."

      http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/usercomments
    • spookshowbaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Oh, come on. If I can drive from Corpus Christi to Austin to see it, you can drive from San Antonio. You're closer! :)
    • bightchee, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2It was playing in OC, CA? I just left there last Monday! Dammit.
    • paradoxxxx, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3@chris9902:
      Yep. It came out on my birthday, and all my friends took me to see it.
    • Automatic, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3@5thfreedom
      being from san antonio, I can tell you this is the last place they would show it. Unless it had Selena or Spurs in it or something.
    • socbret, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1It is playin at the Alamo Drafthouse, at least the S. Lamar one. I live on S. Lamar and am goin to see it at 4 =D
    • 5thfreedom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@Automatic

      Or Eva Longoria...
    • n8r0n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Well it is not showing at the San Antonio Drafthouse, but it is showing at the Austin Drafthouse. Alamo Drafthouse even added this to the movie discription on thier page:

      "Austinites: Consider yourselves lucky. Most of the country will have to wait to see Mike Judge's new movie but we've got it this week! Don't forget to email your friends in other cities and rub their noses in it. You'll be glad you did."
    • Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

      The movie has only been released in:
      Los Angeles, Atlanta, Toronto, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and Austin.
  • thatsmyaibo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Yeah , i saw this movie the day after it came out in LA. There were literally about 3 people in the theater for this movie. It was a great concept and worth a ton of laughs. I can see it being a cult classic like Office Space.
  • mccarron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Not quite a follow up to Office Space, yet rather another movie from the same creator.

    It is sad though, I'll be checking it out next week once I find time to go see it.
  • Lomi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27I can't even find a trailer for this movie... god damn I hate fox corp.
    • mike_p, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I agree... I can't believe they would treat Mike Judge like this. After all of his successful accomplishments.
    • mindzeye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Its fricking pathetic, there isn't even a trailer, its part of Fox's massive un-marketing plan.
  • DarkSenay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Sounds pretty good, especially with luke wilson in a comedy role.
  • m00kie, on 10/12/2007, -20/+7i hope that they have milton be a cyborg and his arms are futuristic red staplers. that would be totally lol.
  • ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Office Space didn't hit make much of a splash upon release either, if I recall. Sure there were a few commercials and stuff, but it never hit theaters near me.
  • surf314, on 10/12/2007, -5/+51They bury this and they will probably spend a couple mil on promoting "From Justin to Kelly 2" and then blame pirates for the failing (or should I say flailing) movie industry. Way to go Fox! Good to know the idiots have already taken over.
  • treed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Sweet. This is out in my area. But they're only showing it at like 10PM. WTF
    • Eccohawk, on 10/12/2007, -35/+9
    • socbret, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I couldn't agree with you more Ecco...
    • PowerCow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Might i convince you to bring a good cam with you and maybe buddy up with the projector guy maybe you can get a direct link for sound. Just post it on piratebay, thank you.
    • artemster, on 10/12/2007, -16/+2"...post it on piratebay!"

      Why not just go and pay for the movie? It's attitudes like this that cause marketing to ignore us as an audience.
    • MainMor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17@artemster

      Well I would think most of us would it if were not for the fact it is playing in like 4 movie theaters in the entire frikkin world.
    • PowerCow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@artemster
      I took the liberty of signing you up for brain surgery. There is obviously a problem with your joke reconition sector of the brain.
      your appointment is tomorrow at 2pm. If you like while he is in there, I am sure the doctor would be glad to tweak yyour sarcasm detector as well.
  • Hale, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I saw it last weekend. It was pretty funny, but it's way more of a DVD to own than a movie to see in the theater. For the $9.25/ea I paid to see it I could have bought the dvd.
    • tdogg241, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17You just stated the reason I very rarely see movies in the theater anymore.
    • lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23You pay $7.75 at my local theater.
      Movie is advertised to start at 7:10p.
      Commercials start at 7:18p.
      Six 30-second television commercials.
      2-minute commercial for Army.
      Six 2-minute previews for other movies.
      Movie actually starts at 7:35p.

      I don't go to the theater anymore because in the time it takes to drive there, watch the commercials, and drive home I could torrent a decent screener for free.

      That is why ticket sales are down.
  • oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33Actually, this is EXACTLY the way Office Space opened. The studios had a winner on their hands but got cold feet before the release and did little to no promotion. What resulted was a poor showing in the box office but went on to be one of the biggest selling DVDs of all time.

    (Not so) Amazingly, the studio got a 2nd bite from the same apple and ***** it up again.
    • rohcky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No. Office Space was released nation wide, not in a handfull of theaters. I remember actually seeing that in the theaters. I can't find this movie anywhere in the tri-state area (Philly, Jersey, Delaware).
    • Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9rohcky: Office space was released nationwide, but not at first. They did basically the same thing there that they're doing here. Show it in a few big markets with no promotion to see what the result is. If it does any business at all, they go on to release it nationwide, else they shoot it to DVD.

      See, studios are full of ***** pansies. They have this distorted view of the world, and think that movies are successful because of promotional costs, instead of the quality of the flick itself. They think this because when they promote the hell out of a movie, they can drive tons of asses into seats for the first week or two of the release, and thereby make a dumptruck full of cash. If the movie sucks (like most do), then people stop watching it rapidly thereafter, but they made their cash.

      What they're afraid of is spending a ***** on promoting a movie and the movie being so obviously bad that nobody goes to see it on the opening weekend. So they tend to only promote movies where they can explain them easily within 30 second spots and drive those asses into theater seats. Anything that is not easily explainable in 30 seconds makes them nervous. It could be the greatest movie in the world, but if you can't pigeonhole it into a specific target audience with a 30 second spot, they won't promote it.

      But they are usually contractually obligated to release the movie in some fashion. So in these edge cases, they show it in an extremely limited release with absolutely zero fanfare. Then if it does a good business for a few weeks (due to word of mouth), they widen the release. However, they still won't promote it in those cases, because they don't understand word-of-mouth advertising and don't know how to advertise to intelligent people, and thus the release remains small and the box office sales are not good overall because those people who had heard about it couldn't find any theaters that were showing it. It stays in the "indie" theater areas of town.

      Of course, the movie is usually wonderful and does really well on DVD, proving that the studio execs were ***** idiots to begin with, but by that time, they've forgotten about it anyway.

      Anyway, the short of it is that they don't release movies nationwide if they can't work out how to promote it to a specific audience that they understand. Really broad audiences too like, "men who like action flicks", or "women", or "people who like rap". Big stereotypical audiences, in other words.
  • snakejohns, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5I can't wait to see this, I love Office Space.

    I've even got my red Swingline and my "I've got people skills" award (http://officespaceawards.com) on my desk at work.
  • BlackNute, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Anyone have a torrent?

    I want to see it!
    • nights0223, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Unfortunately, there are no torrents for it yet
    • NonPC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The poster is hysterical. The Vitruvian Man with a wife beater and a beer belly. :D
    • uglymike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1When a torrent is released, please post it here. There is no physical way I will be able to see this movie until the DVD release. I want to see the movie now!!
  • h00paj00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Where's the trailer for this?
  • lorensingley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I would really love to see this movie. Is it not ironic that Fox, the leading provider of mind-numbingly dumb programming on TV would thumb its nose at Idiocracy.
  • nilobject, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15If it's a good movie/show, you can be assured that Fox will ***** it up.
  • mtalon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4*sigh* This is why the Internet is a good thing, and the **AAs are BAD. Mr. Judge could have just figured out a way to distribute it digitally and make money off the donations and what not. Unfortunately, it sounds like he already sold his soul....ahem, I mean the distribution rights to the studio. Hopefully, it won't get buried in its DVD distribution like it did on the film side. It would be sad if piracy was the only way to get to see it.
    • surf314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just wait I'll bet we'll soon be in an era where filmmakers release strait-to-internet content, using profits and fame to make bigger and bigger budget movies a la Kevin Smith and movie houses getting more freedom in the movies they show. And then leprechauns will leap out from under our movie seats and serve us fresh popcorn and soda during the feature.
    • dkm201, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Who do you think paid for the movie to be produced? Who do you think owns every second of that film? It's not like Judge ever owned any of it, or could have afforded to pay Luke Wilson out of his own pocket... He didn't just give them 'distribution rights', they gave him money to make a movie. Then they didn't like the movie he made. But it was always THEIR movie. "distributed digitally" seriously you have a 0% idea what you are talking about.
  • pyrox420, on 10/12/2007, -4/+36Firefly was Cancelled, Fox 1 - The Fans 0
    Serenity was awesome, Fox 1 - The Fans 1
    Idiocracy burried, Fox 2 - The Fans 1

    I hate fox.
    • scooby0110, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10you also forgot the fact that they are bringing back futurama. +1 fox
      and the fact they brought family guy back +1 fox

    • thatsmyaibo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Let us not forget Arrested Development. That was an amazing show. They even canceled Family Guy which backfired so they brought it back. Fox...not too smart with its programming. But then again all the buzz this movie is getting on the net will probably produce massive DVD sales, and that's where all the money is for the movie industry now. Since Idiocracy is only in select areas, they didn't spend a lot to do a theatrical release.. But when DVDs get sold, it will be nationwide. It's bad, yet good, marketing.

      As for Futurama. Fox only brought it back after its success on Cartoon Network.
    • JurneyAhed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5and also Arrested Development... :'(
    • dvddesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Fox didn't bring back squat on futurama. Comedy Central gets it.
    • Chepito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But Futurama is coming back on Comedy Central.
    • FishyJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Fox isn't bringing back Futurama. Comedy Central is bringing back Futurama. Fox cancelled Futurama not because of ratings, but because they didn't have total ownership like they do the Simpsons.
    • ZennZero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@ Scooby - those shows were only canceled in the first place due to Fox's idiocy. They were brought back only because of DVD sales and Cartoon Network ratings. It would have been foolish *not* to allow them back. There is no question about their continued success -- it is a license to print money.

      Fox gets no points for that one.
    • thatsmyaibo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I knew comedy central was getting rights to it. But does anyone know if the movie is going to be released by fox?

      http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471711/
    • christianw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3they also killed dark angel after james cameron finally took the reigns directing it and making a really good cliffhanger for the end of season 2.
  • brjndr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Can people start listing cities where this is playing? I don't see it anywhere in the Bay Area, but I travel a bit so maybe I can catch it. Thanks.
  • ffingers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I can't belive this is in Chicago. I am so there!!! Now have to try and find out where its playing and when. It's reason like these that I love being in a big city!!!
    • Ubermensch423, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2why is it hard to believe it's playing in chicago?
  • Boomhauer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This movie is an amazing movie. Its more of a Beavis and Butthead humor more-so than Office Space. None the less, it is hilarious in its own light and equally as funny as Office Space--just not the same humor. If you know that and expect it--you'll love it, but i recommend not going in there expecting office space 2. Mike Judge is my favorite director to date because of the detail he puts into little things that make the humor go the extra mile. I'm going to see it again this week in Atlanta and urge everyone to see it if they get a chance.
  • ScottyMo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm really disappointed with this one. I read a short blurb about this movie about a month ago in Entertainment Weekly. I told my friends about it and we all thought that the premise was hilarious. We were all going to go see it, but we're not in one of the seven cities that it's showing.

    Hey, they could've gotten our $70+ for seeing it in the theater, but I guess they'll just have to settle for the $10-15 for the DVD that only one of us has to buy.
  • adamsucks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17.0 rating on IMDB... nice.

    http://imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
  • punch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, no trailer to be found.. no offical website.. and can anyone give a list of the 125 theaters that it's actually playing in?
  • bleonard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It isn't being shown in Boston and I'm bummed because I saw a preview for it at Pirates a few months ago.
  • catbertz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Man they really are doing the bare minimum release. The theater in my area is showing it once per night, at 9pm.
  • rasbill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2its partially because mike judge is a pushover, i know he doesnt have the final say but he doesnt even ask why its not being promoted, nevermind bitch about it
  • JackHallows, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There was a FP story about this a while back, I remember wanting to see it but not living anywhere close :|
    It sounds like a good movie, and if it has the kind of humor in Office Space then it HAS to be a good movie.
    • dextrocardia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Phyltre: You seem to have missed the entire point of this discussion. It's not on DVD, and it's only in like 10 theaters (the closest being about 400 miles from me). So people are looking for a way that they can actually see the movie.

      (Sorry, wrong thread.)
  • OMGWTFROFLMAO, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2torrent?
    • Egoist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I just searched isohunt and came to ask the same thing. WTF, where is the torrent for those of us out of the area?
    • Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2WHAT?! A movie without a torrent? No way to see it short of theater or waiting for the DVD? The humanity!
  • jessejoedotcom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Anyone know why they aren't pushing it?
    • johnkoer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The MPAA thinks that if no one sees the movie then it can't be pirated.
  • weneedsound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow. I just read the artical on this.. and I'd really like to see it. I spent about 10 minutes trying to hunt down a trailer?
  • wupike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1is there a list of cities the movie is currently playing in?
    • audioobsessed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1go to imdb.com and put in your zipcode to search for showings
  • CaptainWow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Wow, Fox burying something funny. Suprise! They did something similar to Family Guy when it was still on the air. At least it lasted a few seasons, but they only resurrected it because of the DVD sales.
  • Koosebane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Either the studio thinks the consumer is already too dumb to comprehend the humor in this film.....or they're too dense to understand the appeal of this brand of comedy.

    Big corporations rarely have a sense of humor about themselves or the retardation effect their marketing has on the general population, after all.
  • Chepito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This movie is playing at my local theatre, but they only have ONE showing a day, at 12:25 pm.
  • ichbinladen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3MUST.... WATCH.... FOX....
  • Illuminati911, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4"As a prologue explains, smart people are getting outnumbered. While the intelligent tend to be careful about their breeding, a lot of morons are not; too boneheaded to think about birth control or sensible family size, they're cranking out more dumb babies every day."

    Welcome to welfare/communism. Jon Stewart and David Letterman don't talk about that side of left wing politics do they? ;)

    http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060904/NEWS06/609040406/-1/ZONES01
    • digduggler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What in the hell does your link have to do with anything?
    • gandhii, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I've heard them and seen them make fun of that plenty. We'd hear more about it if we weren't currently suffering from too much of the other side.
  • Ub312g0d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I watched this movie last weekend and I must say that it is easily one of my favorite movies now. As the article says, the plot itself isnt that great but I was laughing my ass off the entire time. I'm almost happy that its getting a limited release because that means the dvd will come out sooner.
  • audioobsessed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5are you ***** kidding me, not a single showing in New York City
    • MyKungFu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2heh, that's a very new york city way of putting it. fuhgettaboutit.
    • MrC539, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's ridiculous. The closest showing to New York is Chicago...what the hell were they thinking? Why would they show it in Texas, Georgia, etc. and not NYC?
  • schmichael, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Chicago is the closet location showing it for me:
    http://imdb.com/title/tt0387808/cinemashowtimes
  • zionad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1this better be realeased in canada
  • baxtermadux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3God Damnit!! this is the reason the studio system wont be around in a few decades from now. the intenet will be the distribution medium and the filmakers will have to have a lot more control over the products success. this is just intolerable.
  • hodyoaten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Seeing as how the studios are electing to kill this film, I'd have no moral problem with downloading a torrent. Screw 'em. But I'll probably wait for it to roll around at Netflix to get the best experience the first time around.

    Oh well, I guess we've got to saturate those theaters with 10 or 15 showings of Snakes On A Plane.
  • kennbiv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Atlanta area has it in about 15 theaters with single late showings. I will definitely support it. Fox sucks.
  • joshwalderbach, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Office Space followup? What the hell man? This movie has NOTHING to do with Office Space except it's from the same guy. That's like saying Signs was the Sixth Sense followup. Christ people.
    • Klisk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Signs was a Sixth Sense followup. A followup by the same director at any rate. But a followup to his previous work, the Sixth Sense.

      It amazes me at how Digg users just bitch and bitch about something so trivial.
    • Ubermensch423, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1unbreakable was the sixth sense follow-up ;-)
  • darkever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There is not a single theater in New York/NJ that has it according to Fandango...this sucks
  • gorgalor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I checked the local AMC in Los Angeles. It's playing ONE time today at 1:40 PM. WTF? ONE time???

    http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/theater?id=366&date=20060908
  • everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1good lord, it's nowhere! i can only find it on fandango through name only.
  • UnnDunn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3WTF? Even Limited Release movies come to New York. But not this one.

    This blows. It's like Fox doesn't WANT us to give them our money.
  • m39aman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I got to see it last night, if your lucky enough to have the chance I do recommend doing so. If not, it is worth the buy/rent once it hits DVD.

    BTW screw FOX.
    • fatskamike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's playing everywhere in the Dallas area.
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