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'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' movie leaked one month early

1 April 2009 15:39 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 55 comments

'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' movie leaked one month early One month before its theatrical release, a workprint version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine has been leaked online, and is seeing huge downloads as I type.

The film, being a "workprint", has some special effects missing, as well as the occasional view of wires still attached to actors during action scenes. Although unconfirmed, some are reporting that the leaked version is missing some of the director's re-shoots. We probably won't know until next month however what is missing.

The film was supposed to compete with other blockbuster fare such as Star Trek and Transformers 2 but poor reviews of the film based on the leaked version may kill that buzz.

The more important question may be, at least from 20th Century Fox's perspective, is where the leak came from. There is a small caption at the beginning of the video that says 'Rising Sun Pictures' and is dated from last month.

Rising Sun Pictures is an Australian visual effects company that worked on editing the film, and is currently working on the upcoming blockbuster Terminator Salvation. There is no evidence however to support that RSP was involved in the leak.

20th Century Fox has yet to comment publicly on the leak.

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    cyprusrom (AfterDawn Addict) 3 April 2009 2:34 Send private message to this user   
    LOL, that is some conspiracy theory;)!

    Made me smile!




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    iamgq (Newbie) 3 April 2009 7:42 Send private message to this user   
    Originally posted by 5fdpfan:
    "They could have waited till after it got relese the least."

    With all do respect to your point, ripping people off is still ripping people off whether a legal alternative is avalible yet or not. Those who intended on paying to see the movie still can. The rest would have still downloaded and watched this for free anyway. Granted,the early word of mouth(which from what I've read has been poor at best)doesn't help the situation much but its too late to worry about that now. The cat's out of the bag now. The studio will just have to spend a little more to make any necessary alterations to the final product before it hits theaters or do better to secure their films next time so that at least they will have recieved something before a pirated version is leaked.

    With all do respect how about you sh*t the f*ck up! Im not supporting neither, its not cool regardles was my point.
    pcrazy99 (Member) 3 April 2009 10:16 Send private message to this user   
    If the movie was actually good I would go see it with the special effects added. The movie isn't good so I'm glad I don't have to waste fifty bucks seeing it in the theater. Also, maybe this will stem the flow of comic book or super hero movies. It's getting kind of played out.
    bangor09 (Newbie) 3 April 2009 14:15 Send private message to this user   
    I liked the movie a lot, actually,I will see it on theaters and it will interesting to see what changes are made, my only gripe was the weapon XI thing, I though Deadpool was cool to beging with, I didn´t liked the idea of him turned into a Adamantium welding guy,let´s hope they change that, as for Logan being involved with Mariko and not some Canadian lady, well, this movie it´s supposed to be 15 years before the first movie of X-men, so there´s time for Logan to frolic on Japan and Madripoor,)and for saberthoot to get the bulking guy who was on X-men too) the other thing is Gambit was in this one, so with this they made him to be a lot OLDER than rogue for the movies, too bad Magneto didn´t showed up, he was supposed to have his own movie coming out too.....
    atomicxl (Junior Member) 4 April 2009 0:56 Send private message to this user   
    Ehh, that sucks. If they find the person, they should punish this guy to the maximum extent of the law.

    Rising Sun Pictures has basically written themselves out of the industry with this. When you're leaking out movies... what studio in their right mind would let you work on their project? They've pretty much blacklisted the company and all of their employees from ever working with 20th Century Fox again in any way, shape or form.
    EricCarr (Member) 4 April 2009 2:07 Send private message to this user   
    I've watched the unfinished movie here and it is awesome. I will go see it at the movies and buy the DVD. Who ever leaked it, and the purpose was to get some buzz going. They have succeeded.
    knfusd (Member) 4 April 2009 20:55 Send private message to this user   
    Saw it at friend's house, then watched credits had names of people and or actors not in the product. Wondering or coming to conclusion that it's not finished product. Was pretty good though considering. Will be going to theatre to see finished movie. Much better than Xman 3 !
    homesick (AfterDawn Addict) 4 April 2009 20:59 Send private message to this user   
    Originally posted by iamgq:
    Originally posted by 5fdpfan:
    "They could have waited till after it got relese the least."

    With all do respect to your point, ripping people off is still ripping people off whether a legal alternative is avalible yet or not. Those who intended on paying to see the movie still can. The rest would have still downloaded and watched this for free anyway. Granted,the early word of mouth(which from what I've read has been poor at best)doesn't help the situation much but its too late to worry about that now. The cat's out of the bag now. The studio will just have to spend a little more to make any necessary alterations to the final product before it hits theaters or do better to secure their films next time so that at least they will have recieved something before a pirated version is leaked.

    With all do respect how about you sh*t the f*ck up! Im not supporting neither, its not cool regardles was my point.
    That's an awfully bold statement with so many mods subscribed to this thread. JMO


    cyprusrom (AfterDawn Addict) 4 April 2009 21:41 Send private message to this user   
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    With all do respect how about you sh*t the f*ck up! Im not supporting neither, its not cool regardles was my point.
    That's an awfully bold statement with so many mods subscribed to this thread. JMO

    I don't know if I would call it bold...If that's the only way one can get his point across...I'd call it senseless and childish, maybe(and that's just to be civil).
    iamgq (Newbie) 5 April 2009 2:37 Send private message to this user   
    Quote:
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    With all do respect how about you sh*t the f*ck up! Im not supporting neither, its not cool regardles was my point.
    That's an awfully bold statement with so many mods subscribed to this thread. JMO

    I don't know if I would call it bold...If that's the only way one can get his point across...I'd call it senseless and childish, maybe(and that's just to be civil).

    im not trying to take away from the main disscusion the movie. what i said was to the point, maybe harshley but not personal in anyway nor selseless or childish... dont analyze and make it what its not.
    ---i also want to point out, people keep saying that if the movie is great yadi yadi yada, it will sell great! but you guys are forgetting how much work gets putt in to making a movie(good or bad)... not trying to get anyone to change their ways, just stop and look at the complete picture. be a little thankful that we still have a strong movie industry.
    Burnasty (Member) 5 April 2009 4:18 Send private message to this user   
    To take this a little more off topic, I would disagree with you and so would the critics. Look at AFI's top 10 movies of all time. The most recent being Schindler's list. You have to go to the number 50 to get a film made in the last decade. So, no we don't have a great movie industry anymore.
    bangor09 (Newbie) 5 April 2009 4:23 Send private message to this user   

    just stop and look at the complete picture. be a little thankful that we still have a strong movie industry.
    We do????

    (kidding, well, not really, ok, so maybe I am, but anyway....)
    iamgq (Newbie) 5 April 2009 6:21 Send private message to this user   
    Originally posted by Burnasty:
    To take this a little more off topic, I would disagree with you and so would the critics. Look at AFI's top 10 movies of all time. The most recent being Schindler's list. You have to go to the number 50 to get a film made in the last decade. So, no we don't have a great movie industry anymore.

    You must be only comparing it to the States. Im comparing it to the world, name to me the last blockbuster made by Europeans, Africans or South South Americans...
    iamgq (Newbie) 5 April 2009 6:28 Send private message to this user   
    Originally posted by bangor09:

    just stop and look at the complete picture. be a little thankful that we still have a strong movie industry.
    We do????

    (kidding, well, not really, ok, so maybe I am, but anyway....)

    Yall some ignorant ass selfish people. Telling you, outside the states who else is making movies we willing to spend 12-15 buck for?
    binkie7 (Moderator) 5 April 2009 11:03 Send private message to this user   
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    cyprusrom (AfterDawn Addict) 5 April 2009 11:12 Send private message to this user   
    Quote:
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    be a little thankful that we still have a strong movie industry...
    Yall some ignorant ass selfish people. Telling you, outside the states who else is making movies we willing to spend 12-15 buck for?
    Not sure where the selfishness comes into play.
    You are not taking in consideration the fact that whatever movies you, or some, might find to be these great blockbusters and are willing to spend your 12-15 dollars on, other people might not want to waste a potato chip on them.And that's for good reason.

    Just because you live in US,where Hollywood movies are the mainstream,and that's all you've been exposed to, it doesn't mean the rest of the world revolves around it. Very good movies come also from Europe and Asia, just because you're not exposed to, appreciate or care for, it doesn't mean they don't exist.
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    Im comparing it to the world, name to me the last blockbuster made by Europeans, Africans or South South Americans...

    I think "Slumdog Millionaire" would qualify, as a recent one.
    varnull (Inactive) 5 April 2009 11:17 Send private message to this user   
    It has a bit more story content than I'm used to from a superhero film tbh.. but not bad. I might actually waste some of my bandwidth for the final version. *gasp*.. me .. a superhero film?... but wolverine is sexy :lol:



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    binkie7 (Moderator) 5 April 2009 11:37 Send private message to this user   
    Heck ya Wolverine is sexy - I'll pay to see it in the theater too just cause of that :)

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    Just because you live in US,where Hollywood movies are the mainstream,and that's all you've been exposed to, it doesn't mean the rest of the world revolves around it. Very good movies come also from Europe and Asia, just because you're not exposed to, appreciate or care for, it doesn't mean they don't exist.
    Good point cyprusrom.

    A good recent one that comes to mine for me would be Mongol - can't wait for the rest of the trilogy. Oh but wait you have to read subtitles......

    Personally I thought Slumdog was your typical Hollywood story - poor boy makes out and gets girl. This is just my opinion and others will disagree - that's cool.
    varnull (Inactive) 5 April 2009 11:49 Send private message to this user   
    I can't see what all the fuss is about with "slumdog".. want to see a good public funded film (which should be free to uk peeps who are paying for them after all) .. watch "mischief night"



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    kevinv (Newbie) 5 April 2009 12:25 Send private message to this user   
    sometimes i wonder if they do not leak the films themself, so they can get feedback from the net. if the leak flops, then a change is needed, else keep going ahead.

    just my 2 cents
    cyprusrom (AfterDawn Addict) 5 April 2009 13:23 Send private message to this user   
    I didn't qualify Slumdog Millionaire as a great piece of art, but as a blockbuster made elsewhere other than Hollywood.

    @binkie
    I didn't know Mongol was a trilogy, although should've figured there was more by the way it ended. Red Cliff was a pretty good movie also.
    varnull (Inactive) 5 April 2009 13:42 Send private message to this user   
    never mind.. looking at the tv trailers there might be some films worth downloading in the next few weeks



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    binkie7 (Moderator) 5 April 2009 14:38 Send private message to this user   
    @cyprusrom
    Yeah the next one is tentatively called The Great Khan and will hopefully be released in 2010.
    Thanks for the tip in Red Cliff - I'm going to check that one out.

    While I love these great epic Asian movies sans CG I do like the big blockbuster w/ cg too like X men, Transformers etc. I like variety :)




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    tgill09 (Newbie) 14 April 2009 14:16 Send private message to this user   
    well whoever released it and when they catch that person they are in some serious trouble. i would like to see if it is good tho.
    danny4237 (Newbie) 1 May 2009 17:08 Send private message to this user   
    Obviously Hollywood can't sustain this type of leak, but their approach, mainly deterrence and threats, doesn't seem to be working on its own.

    Here is an alternative, moving to the preventive maintenance side:

    http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/20...s-data-leakage/
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