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The international release brought an additional $2 million.
The film’s international box office was about $1.35 million, not $2 million.
Full reasoning
Box-office records for Office Space list $10,827,813 domestic, $1,351,895 international, and $12,179,708 worldwide. That means the overseas total was about $1.35 million, so saying the international release brought in “an additional $2 million” overstates the figure by roughly $650,000.
This is not just a rounding issue: $1.35 million rounds to about $1.4 million, not $2 million.
2 sources
- Office Space (1999) - Box Office and Financial Information
Domestic Box Office $10,827,813 ... International Box Office $1,351,895 ... Worldwide Box Office $12,179,708
- Office Space (1999) - Box Office and Financial Information
All Time International Box Office ... Office Space ... $1,351,895
On home release, $8 million in DVD, Blu-ray Disc and VHS sales were sold at release as of April 2006.
This wording is impossible as written: Blu-ray sales could not be part of an April 2006 total, because Blu-ray launches in the U.S. began in June 2006.
Full reasoning
The statement bundles DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and VHS sales into a figure stated to be true “as of April 2006.” That cannot be right for Blu-ray.
Sony’s 2008 annual report says Blu-ray Disc movie releases in America began in June 2006, so there could not have been any U.S. Blu-ray sales for Office Space by April 2006. In addition, The Numbers’ video-sales entry for Office Space shows Blu-ray sales beginning years later, in May 2011.
So the April 2006 home-video number may refer to DVD-era sales, but it is inaccurate to describe it as including Blu-ray Disc sales by that date.
2 sources
- Sony Annual Report 2008
With the release of hit titles on Blu-ray ... In America in June 2006, SPHE has released ... on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
- Office Space (1999) - Financial Information
Weekly US DVD Sales ... Weekly US Blu-ray Sales ... Blu-ray sales: May 15, 2011 ... Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on our knowledge of retailer and distributor revenue-sharing agreements.
As of 2006, it had sold over six million DVDs in the United States alone.
A 2006 Fortune report said the film had sold nearly six million videotapes and DVDs combined, not over six million DVDs alone.
Full reasoning
This sentence appears to overstate and misstate the 2006 home-video figure.
A 2006 Fortune report on Fox said Office Space “has sold nearly six million videotapes and DVDs.” That is a combined home-video total, not “over six million DVDs” by themselves. The source also does not say “in the United States alone.”
So the article’s wording changes both the quantity (“nearly” vs. “over”) and the format breakdown (combined videotapes + DVDs vs. DVDs alone).
1 source
- FORTUNE: The future of Hollywood: Fox the day after tomorrow
"Office Space" got so-so reviews and took in a disappointing $10 million ... It has sold nearly six million videotapes and DVDs.