Ricky Gervais may be out of the movie biz. Or at least the theatrical movie biz. His next movie is something called Cemetery Junction and though it was originally slated for theatrical release, The Playlist says it’s skipping theaters and going straight to the DVD on August 17th. Surprised? You shouldn’t be.

Ricky Gervais has done two movies so far, and both have been box office challenged. Ghost Town deserved to do better than it did, it’s actually really great. The Invention of Lying on the other hand wasn’t particularly great and it’s box office totals were non-existent. Worse Invention of Lying failed in spite of Ricky overloading the film with famous celebrity supporters like Tina Fey and Jennifer Garner. Whether his movies are bad or good seems, however, to be irrelevant. The truth is that very few, outside of maybe you and me, appear to want to see Ricky Gervais movies.

Worse, Cemetery Junction doesn’t even star Gervais. The trailer, which we weren’t very impressed with here indicates that Ricky’s only a very minor character in the film which, as a matter of fact, is not a comedy but really some sort of odd drama starring a bunch of unknowns. It kind of makes sense that Sony wouldn’t want to spend money distributing it. Whether or not it’s any good, there’s almost no chance they’ll ever make any of their money back.

That means it’s up to us. Sure Invention of Lying kind of sucked but Ricky’s still a comedic genius. If you want Ricky Gervais back in the movie business then pick up a copy of Cemetery Junction on August 17th.