4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days stations and an airline also wished to censor the fetus shot. In June 2008, the film was released on DVD in Region 1 by Genius Products in the U.S. and by Mongrel Media in Canada, featuring interviews with the filmmakers and Sorin Avram's documentary "1 Month with 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days". In Region 2, Artificial Eye published a 2008 DVD with the interviews and Avram's documentary. In 2007 in Romania, there were 89,000 admissions for "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days", making it the seventh most attended film in the country that year, and the most attended
Dump months prompted studios to release films in that genre at times of the year other than Halloween and the dump months. The term "dump months" comes from the belief that studios use the time periods in question as a "dumping ground" for movies they are contractually obligated to release but believe to have limited commercial prospects at best. "The big studios would never in a million years use this phrase", Dade Hayes, coauthor of "Open Wide: How Hollywood Box Office Became A National Obsession", told "Newsday" in August 2017. "[B]ut they do view [these times of year] as a dumping ground."