I found the only photos known to exist of 20th Century Fox’s 1999 publicity stunt for Office Space
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I found the only photos known to exist of 20th Century Fox’s 1999 publicity stunt for Office Space
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In February of 1999, Office Space was released in theaters followed by a grim box-office return. This was in part due to 20th Century Fox dedicating the film’s entire marketing budget to a publicity stunt that was held in Times Square and live streamed online two weeks before the film’s release.
Comedy Central’s repeated airing of the film during the early 2000s was what led to Office Space’s eventual success as a cult film, unintentionally burying this publicity stunt deeper into obscurity. It would remain largely forgotten about for over 20 years.
As of right now, I’m pretty confident these photos are the only of their kind currently uploaded to the internet, but I’d love for that to change.
For ALL of the context needed for these photos, I made a short video essay explaining how I found them and interviewing the subject of the publicity stunt, Andrew Burlinson: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wo9Kum5-V0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wo9Kum5-V0)
If you remember this stunt at all, or if you know where to find more photos or screenshots of the live stream, please email me at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) (good luck!).
This is the random stuff I’m here for
Aight that’s legit, nice work
The tl;dw – the studio built a live streamed guy-in-an-office-cubicle stunt in Times Square, for two weeks.
I think the craziest part is his roommate was Shur.
didn’t expect to watch the whole thing. this is actually really interesting.