When a high-quality, full-length work print of X-Men Origins: Wolverine surfaced on Internet bittorrent sites last night, early speculation was that this was a doomsday Read the full post.
Apr 1
2009
10:08 PM ET
'Wolverine' leak: Hollywood's mixed response
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The leak is only a disaster if the movie sucked in the first place. Then it was only an accelerated disaster.
Its not illegal to watch online movies and while they are out i will continuously watch them. I saw the x man movie last night, and i watch nearly every movie on the internet and will continuously do so as watching movies are not illegal downloading and sharing however is = ], hollywood fat cats earn enough as it is.
Btw nice report on how its going to be damaging to this movie, hello every single movie that comes out is already on the internet BEFORE IT COMES OUT in cinemas or as soon as it comes out. This is way out of anyones hands hollywood should really stop complaining as it happens to every single 1 of their movies and they cant do a thing to stop it.
The movie is watermarked and theres even groups of names listed on the movies scenes from what people should have had access to it so someones head will roll if not already.
Well, I haven’t seen this movie online but I will see it in theater because I’m a fan of Hugh Jackman. I’m sure the movie doesn’t stink that bad. I’ve watch other movies online so I can decide if I want to spend my money seeing it in theater. If the movie is good then Hollywood has nothing to worry about when a movie is leaked. People will go see on the big screen if it worth it. Problem is HW is spending too much money making too much crap on expects us to pay for it.
This has not been a good two days for Fox – this week Slumdog Millionaire was released on DVD and a large percent (perhaps most?) of the DVDs shipped and purchased were defective copies that did not include the Special Features as listed on the back. I was one of many customers who complained, and am apparently going to receive a correct copy in the mail. But if you can’t even get a DVD right, what can you get right? Not a good week, sorry Fox.
Movie svhcmovie.
What does this mean for the value of my 9.4 graded near mint condition copy of Hulk 181?
They shouldn’t be worrying about ticket sales, unless the movie they made is godawful.
Matthew makes a good point, it would be grossly unfair to the film makers to post a review of an unfinished workprint as though it was a review of the actual film. Just to provide an example of how much can change between versions, consider how much Harrison Ford’s narration altered Blade Runner.
I agree that the leak will do little if any damage to the film’s box office numbers, since Wolverine is the most popular Marvel character next to Spider-Man and the majority of fans have been happy with Hugh Jackman’s portrayal of the character thus far. I for one am looking forward to seeing Wolverine’s origin story on the big screen.
On a side note, I’m wondering how many of these negative “reviews” are coming from hard-core Watchmen fans who are still sore over the whole Warner/Fox copyright debacle.
How much you want to bet that this is a publicity stunt by FOX, and the movie was intentionally “leaked”?
VHS and cassette tapes posed the same problem for the film and movie industries years ago. I remember when I was in a band in the late 80s. If it wasn’t for kids taping our CDs and spreading the word we never would have achieved the popularity we did.
The $10 or whatever you pay to see a movie is for the live experience – watching a film unspool before your eyes in the company of other people. If that’s your thing.
The $5 you pay to rent the movie allows you to watch it as much as you can in the time allotted for the rental. Now, if you copy that movie, and pass it along to a friend, and they like it, they’re probably going to tell a few people about it, and they will probably buy it, or at the very least get someone’s copy and tell someone else about it.
“Piracy” is free promotion, and movie studios should be grateful instead of thinking they’re losing millions of dollars they never had in the first place. You can’t lose something you haven’t gotten yet.
I will go to support Taylor Kitsch!
Plus its not the finished project so i will wait.
Music industry… I mean film and music industries. Pardon.
I just read this on imdb:
20th Century Fox has issued a press release stating that it plans to drastically “re-calibrate” the narrative of Gavin Hood’s Tsotsi follow-up, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, while still maintaining its scheduled opening in theaters everywhere on May 1st.
“Look,” said CEO Tom Rothman in a prepared statement, “[expletive] those weaselly little mother[expletive]ers that couldn’t hold onto their [expletive]ing horses to see this film and pay to do so. This is our way of sticking it to the so-called ‘fans’ who managed to show up for three of these flicks and purported to be willing to show up for this one, even though the last one was a total piece of [expletive].”
Matt, I believe that article was an April Fools piece. :p
Matt, the imdb article comes from cinematical.com. I believe it is an April Fools joke. The article continues saying:
“Directing duties on the new footage have been split between three helmers: actor Liev Schreiber has reportedly filmed a nineteen-minute tracking shot that has each and every member of the project’s cast and crew extending their middle fingers towards the camera (save for Ryan Reynolds, already occupied by preparations on Julie Taymor’s The Proposal: The Musical)”
Just thought I’d share that.