AndPop.com reported that Lukas Haas had said he did not expect the film to be released. These statements were confirmed on April 5, in an article in The Ryersonian. Haas expressed his unhappiness with the film, and said they had been trying to sell the film for a long time with little success. On April 6, the website Box Office Mojo reported that MGM had picked up the rights to Material Girls and would be releasing it on August 25 (this was later changed to August 18). On May 2, the official website for Martha Coolidge reported that it would be released on around 2,000 screens. Material Girls was released in 1,500 theaters in the U.S. and debuted at #9 on the weekend box office chart, grossing only US$4.62 million in its first three days of release. The DVD for Material Girls was released on December 12, 2006 in the U.S by 20th Century Fox under the MGM Home Entertainment label. It is a double-sided DVD with special features including the music video for Hilary Duff's single "Play with Fire". In the UK the film was released on March 2, 2007 to coincide with the release of Duff's single "With Love", her album Dignity, and the UK release of her scent With Love... Hilary Duff. It was distributed by Twentieth Century Fox. The film has garnered a total of $16,847,695 worldwide. Critical response The film received extremely negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes ranked Material Girls 46th in the 100 worst reviewed films of the 2000s, with a rating of 4% based on reviews from 54 critics and an average rating of 3.00/10. The consensus reads, "Plagued by paper-thin characterizations and a hackneyed script, Material Girls fails to live up to even the minimum standards of its genre." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 17 out of 100 based on reviews from 12 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "B−" on scale of A+ to F. Hilary and Haylie Duff's performances were panned by critics and earned both of them Razzie Award nominations for Worst Actress and Worst Screen Couple. Amelie Gillette of The A.V. Club wrote in her review: "Their portrayal isn't some light send-up of materialism. It's a light endorsement of it." Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote in her review: "The real-life sisters Hilary and Haylie Duff