 20th Century Fox announced on April 1 , 2006 that the film would be released worldwide on July 27 , 2007 . The film was released a day earlier in Australia and the United Kingdom . Little information about the plot was released in the weeks building up to the film 's release . Groening did not feel that " people look in the TV section of the newspaper and think , ' I 'll watch this week 's Simpsons because I like the plot . ' You just tune in and see what happens . " 
