The 2004 hybrid film starring Marlee Matlin and a host of talking heads, is being followed up by What the Bleep!? Down The Rabbit Hole, which comes out in theaters this month. The so-called sequel is really just a reworking of the first, surprisingly popular, non-genre, non-formula film, which brought in about $11 million. The fiction part remains more or less intact, while the documentary segment has grown. “Unlike the first movie where the balance of interview and storyline was fairly even,” reads a synopsis of the new film on the What the Bleep!? website, “in What the Bleep!? Down the Rabbit Hole there is never a doubt as to which is the main course. And the movie is the better for it.”

The new Bleep adds 45 minutes of interviews with two new scientists in the mix, plus more animation. They’re all still discussing the meeting points of quantum physics, consciousness, and daily reality; viewers are still asked to consider how their thoughts sculpt their external experiences. An article in last Sunday’s New York Times discussed Hollywood’s shock at the popularity of the first Bleep––every major studio turned it down until the filmmakers started placing it in theaters themselves. “Hollywood may not have recognized the large size of the human potential movement and so they’re watching this emerging consciousness-inspirational film genre very carefully,” one of the filmmakers, Mark Vicente, told the Times. Apparently the movie has even inspired Deepak Chopra to pursue his own DVD, How to Know God. In the Times article he said, “It takes a very long time for Hollywood to catch up.”