The producers of the film are James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike Scully and Richard Sakai. The film was distributed by 20^th Century Fox which created Gross revenue of $527, 071, 022.

The convenience store chain 7-Eleven transformed 11 of its stores in the U.S. and one in Canada into Kwik-E-Mart. 7-Eleven also sold Simpsons-themed merchandise in many of its stores. This included "Squishees", "Buzz Cola", "Krusty-O's" Cereal, and "Pink Movie Donuts". Homer performed a special animated opening monologue for the July 24, 2007 edition of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, as part of another promotion.

Promotions also occurred around the world. The village of Springfield in Canterbury, New Zealand erected a "giant pink donut" to celebrate being named Springfield, while in London a double decker-sized floating inflatable Spider Pig was set up by the Battersea Power Station. 

McFarlane Toys released a line of action figures based on the film; EA Games released The Simpsons Game, to coincide with the film's DVD release, although the plot of the game was not based on the film. Samsung released The Simpsons Movie phone, and Microsoft produced a limited edition The Simpsons Movie Xbox 360. Ben & Jerry's created a Simpsons-themed beer and donut-flavoured ice cream, entitled "Duff & D'oh! Nuts". Windows Live Messenger presented their users with the opportunity to download a free animated and static content for use within their conversations. Burger King produced a line of Simpsons toy figures that were given away with children's meals, and ran a series of Simpsons-themed television adverts to promote this. JetBlue Airways held a series of online sweepstakes to win a trip to the film's Los Angeles, California premiere. They also included a channel dedicated to The Simpsons on their planes' in-flight entertainment system.

1. Media texts are profit motivated. Consider this in the light of TV news. What issues does this raise?

As there is a huge influence of mass media on the public’s view so there has been plenty theories upon this issue; such as a ‘Conspiracy theory’ in Media Studies that has concerns with a small group of multimedia leaders that have an objective to reach with the entire media contents. Their objective is to take over with every other media company available in the market, so that in the group they construct would give them more power to control what the consumers are provided with. This implies with the politically & socially content available in the form of media to alter the thoughts of the consumers of the media content. The reason for the concern of this issue because the conspiracy theory is being seen by observers in all the mass media; such as the news corporations a being biased with their data provided on certain topics also there are sections of news not being told to the public.

2. Which media companies do you think could be accused of having too much power and control in our society?

Throughout the world there no rules governing the contents of the media provided to the country of origin; in most countries the government owns or controls the media content. The reason why the government owns or controls the media contents is primarily for propaganda and informational purposes. The issue that occurs in most countries the media is largely in the control of a small of multinational companies. I think that no media company should be accused of having too much power and control in our society because that was their objective as a company. The reason for not accusing the media companies with too much power and control in our society because if you know the media companies are trying to get across to the customer you can avoid their messages.