New Line Cinema launched “The Decide of Future” in theaters over Thanksgiving weekend in 2006. Amidst blended opinions, the movie was buried on the field workplace, failing to crack the highest 10 in its debut. It topped out with lower than $14 million worldwide towards a $20 million finances, making it a large flop in its day. However, as Black identified in the identical interview, the tide has very a lot turned within the years for the reason that movie’s authentic launch:
“Although when it first got here out it was a box-office catastrophe, it ended up nonetheless being our proudest second and the top of our creativity. Through the years, it is change into successful and it is truly made all its a reimbursement. You may inform the extent of this as a result of once we carry out all world wide, everybody is aware of each phrase of each track in that film.'”
Between residence video gross sales and streaming/cable rights, it seems that the movie has managed to get out of the crimson. Past that, as Black factors out, the songs from the movie’s soundtrack turned common divorced of the film, with followers loving the likes of “Grasp Exploder” and “Dude (I Completely Miss You).” It might not have been successful, however the movie has undoubtedly discovered its viewers over time.
Due to the movie’s failure initially, a sequel by no means materialized. Nonetheless, Black and Gass did return with one other venture in 2018 within the type of “Tenacious D in Put up-Apocalypto.” The hand-drawn collection was launched by the band immediately on YouTube spanning six episodes, which basically equated to a feature-length venture when stitched collectively. An album of songs from the animated collection was additionally launched.