Roger Avary occasionally shows the film at private screening. He has confirmed that he screened the film for a mysterious group of French cultural rebels who call themselves the Perforated Mexicans. The group set up an illegal screening room in a secluded part of the Paris catacombs. It is unknown how Roger Avary came into contact with them. It is also rumored to have been screened at a meeting of The Secret Order of the Pizza Knights, a much less clandestine group that is made up of Hollywood directors who meet once a month and screen hard-to-find films for each other. According to Aint it Cool News, members include: David Fincher, Spike Jonze, Steven Soderbergh, Roman Coppola, Alexander Payne, Stephen Norrington, George Hickenlooper, Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, David Siegel, Scott McGehee, James Gray, Peyton Reed, Peter Care, Jake Paltrow, Jason Schwartzman and Wes Anderson.
Bret Easton Ellis said of the film that "for many legal reasons, it will never see the light of day" as it's "basically about 90 minutes of him (Pardue) actually in character seducing women throughout Europe."
During a question & answer session in 2012, Roger Avary was asked about whether the film could or would ever be seen by the general public. He stated that just that year, an unnamed french distribution company offered to pay for all the music in the film in exchange for exclusive distribution rights.
After seeing the movie for the first time, Bret Easton Ellis was asked what he thought about it. "Extremely explicit. That's the only way to describe it," he said, smiling.
Roger Avary has held off releasing the film as he feels it may be "ethically questionable."