The film premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 5, 2001, which had previously screened Anderson's Rushmore in 1998.[2] Distributed by Touchstone Pictures,[71] it opened in New York City and Los Angeles in December 2001.[72] In February 2002, it was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival.[73]
To mark a decade since its debut, Anderson and his stars returned to the New York Film Festival for a screening of The Royal Tenenbaums in fall 2011.[74] After previously publishing a DVD edition, The Criterion Collection released a Blu-ray in Region A in 2012.[75]
