Idiocracy To Get Extremely Limited Release After All

Posted by on August 25th, 2006   Filed under: Movies

Well it looks like 20th Century Fox had a change of heart regarding the Mike Judge-directed Luke Wilson-starring comedy Idiocracy. Instead of just shelving the film, like they originally said they would do, they’ve decided to let a few people see it after all. By a few people of course, I mean only people in 7 major cities. The film will open in Austin, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, L.A. and Toronto on September 1st. No word on whether it may expand beyond that, but I suppose Fox is going to be watching closely to see how the movie is received in those markets. Strangely, they haven’t even bothered to put together a trailer for the film. How they can just throw away a Luke Wilson comedy like this is beyond me. Either they don’t get it, or this really is a terrible movie. Which do you think it is?

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  • Nuno

    The article also mentioned that it would open in Toronto on September 1st as well and although torontoplus.ca and http://www.mrmovietimes.com also list it as having a limited Toronto release on September 1st, there are no advanced listings for any specific theatre. I’m guessing if anyone has it next Friday it’ll be the Cumberland.

  • Hey you’re right, don’t know how I missed that. I guess I just assumed we would get screwed. I’ll update in the post.

  • I’m hoping this expands because I’d like to see it. I’m guessing they just don’t get it. I doubt that Judge would have made something quite that bad and that Wilson would have agreed to do it.

  • Nuno

    cineplex.com has Ididocracy showtimes starting tomorrow in the folling Ontario cities:
    Brampton (yes!), Etobicoke, New Market, Scarborough, Toronto and Vaughan.

    You can find the showtimes under Movies – Coming Soon. Looks like it’s only playing in Ontario for now.

  • Nuno

    Oh, it’s also listed on tribute.ca and is playing at AMC KENNEDY COMMONS Scarborough,
    AMC WHITBY 24, AMC WINSTON CHURCHILL 24 and EMPIRE STUDIO 10 AT SQUARE ONE, MISSISSAUGA.

  • Nice… thanks for the update. I don’t know if I’ll be able to get to any of those places this weekend but anyone who sees it will have to give us the full rundown.