nsane.forums Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 April 1st. What fun. Everywhere you look torrent sites and release sites are being shut down, that’s if they aren’t teaming up with the movie studios. But what if there’s some really serious news to report? What if one of the summer’s biggest sci-fi movies leaked out onto the Internet way before its release, and before it was even completed? Still unconvinced?This is the reality today with Fox’s ‘upcoming’ X-Men Origins: Wolverine and it’s spreading with determination on BitTorrent. At the time of writing there are at least three different ‘workprint’ versions, presumably from the same source. One is reported to be a few minutes longer than the others but all are missing special effects. The film, penned for a May 1 2009 release, was due to compete alongside the likes of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Star Trek in this year’s summer blockbuster campaigns but has ‘premiered’ a little earlier than planned.Since the movie hit BitTorrent just a few hours ago it has been downloaded at least 75,000 times, which is a rate comparable to that of the DVDrip ‘release’ of The Dark Knight. Interest is likely to be significant. X-Men’s target audience are tech-savvy people who are likely to have heard about BitTorrent. Multiply this by the desire to see something unusual and something you’re not supposed to have (like an unfinished Hollywood sci-fi movie) and things got hot - quickly.The leak is the source of much speculation, but one particularly interesting discussion surrounds the source of the leak of this ‘workprint’ copy. Many early ‘reviewers’ of the movie noted that not only was the video and audio of a high quality (screenshots), but there were no ‘watermarks’. This is not strictly true. A little way into the movie from the top of the screen pops a very brief message which names Rising Sun Pictures and a date, 2nd March 2009.Founded in 1995, Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) is an Australian visual effects company which has previously worked on the Harry Potter, Superman and Batman movies, so they have quite a pedigree. Of course RSP would absolutely not endorse any leak and the leak could have happened before the print even reached them, but somehow a print marked with their company name has made it onto the Internet and the downloads are mounting quickly.Another interesting development is that Devin Faraci over at Chud.com said that he’d been told that the Wolverine DVD had been “switching hands” over the last couple of weeks.TorrentFreak contacted Rising Sun Pictures but as yet we’ve had no response. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Lite Posted April 7, 2009 Administrator Share Posted April 7, 2009 Looks like the FBI is involved in this one too :PFBI called in over Wolverine leakThe FBI are investigating the online leak of an almost finished copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a month before the film's cinema release. The Hugh Jackman film was downloaded an estimated 100,000 times from file-sharing websites on Tuesday. 20th Century Fox confirmed the copy had now been removed and the FBI informed. The studio behind Wolverine stated: "The source of the initial leak and any subsequent postings will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law." "The courts have handed down significant criminal sentences for such acts" the studio noted.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshiro Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I read somewhere.. Dunno where.. that most people didn't saw it due to the unfinished effects etc.. So they could say 100.000.000.000 people downloaded it.. They aren't sure that all of them watched the movie.. Maybe they watched 5 min. of it.. You're just not sure about such a thing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marik Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 dlded itsaw the first 5 minutesreminded me of DBZshift+deleteI was happy :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Saw it completely with all the wires :P Will keep it till the DVD Rip comes out to see the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshiro Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 dlded itsaw the first 5 minutesreminded me of DBZshift+deleteI was happy :smoke:Haha, just wait till Transformers 2 comes out.. But even that one is going to be fake.. Look at the trailer.. You'll see the bridge is just tooo fake.. :frusty:And Fast$Furious :P can't wait to see it Thursday :eekout: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 just watch the real proper workprint one with my boy. he said he hates workprints and that it ruin the movie. he kept complaining about the wires, anime weapons and other stuff. that workprint still needed a lot of work. hehehecheeze ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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