Ristorante al termine dell'universo by Douglas Adams

The 2005 movie received worldwide release, opening first in the United Kingdom and Australia, then the United States and Canada one day later, and covering most of the rest of the world through the summer of 2005. The 'movie tie-in' editions published in the UK, US and Spain, in addition to the full text of the novel, contain an essay by one of the film's producers, and interviews with members of the cast and the screenwriter, whereas the Dutch 'movie tie-in' edition has none of these, but instead has a printed preview of the second novel in the series.

The German, French and Italian editions have remained readily available, and the Dutch and Spanish paperback editions of the first novel, like their counterparts published in France, the US and the United Kingdom, have been reprinted with a 'movie tie-in' cover, replicating art from the movie's poster. However, despite the wide translations, several of these editions have gone out of print (editions in Japanese and Portuguese are out of print as of July 2005).

The books, as of 2005, have been translated into more than thirty languages, including Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian. CDs of the original or locally-adapted radio series are available worldwide, as are VHS tapes and DVDs of the TV series. The TV series, similarly, has also been broadcast worldwide (in English, in some instances with subtitles, or redubbed into a new language). The original radio episodes have been broadcast in English, worldwide, and have been translated and adapted anew for radio in non-English speaking countries. Within a couple of years after the original 1978 radio broadcasts in the UK, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy became a large international phenomenon.

Ristorante al termine dell'universo by Douglas Adams