Wolverine Film Leaked a Month Before Release 464
hansamurai writes "The FBI are investigating the leak of an almost finished copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine a month before the film's cinema release. The movie was reported to have been downloaded several hundred thousand times and has since been 'removed.' Viewers have called the movie incomplete, missing some special effects and music. Fox and the MPAA are still upset, though, but say the copy is forensically marked and can be traced to the leak. The film is due out May 1st in the United States, and the leaked copy is marked March 2nd."
Re:I missed it? (Score:5, Informative)
Then grab a torrent, such as:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4816113/X-Men.Origins.Wolverine.2009.WORKPRiNT.XviD-NoRar
Re:Math? (Score:1, Informative)
Today is April 2nd, not March 2nd.
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Removed? (Score:5, Informative)
The cat is far out of the bag.
The movie is still available on most major torrent sites.
IsoHunt [isohunt.com]
TPB [thepiratebay.org]
Re:Article Quotes (Score:2, Informative)
Re: release date differences, it's only two days. Here in the UK we're getting a Wednesday release because the kids are off school, and it makes the opening weekend number bigger. The US marketing department apparently don't think it's worth doing something other than the usual Friday. It's hardly the biggest difference out there.
As for Hostel II, surely Roth's problem was more the phenomenally bad reviews prior to release that killed it, rather than some unusually large number of pirate copies?
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Re:I missed it? (Score:4, Informative)
...because they cannot count to two
Re:I missed it? (Score:1, Informative)
Then you have not been to theatres here in Portland, Oregon. We have theatres that serve locally brewed beer and decent pizza. At least two serve whole meals.
You can't generalize all theatres like you did.
Re:I missed it? (Score:5, Informative)
You need to watch better movies. :-)
Highlights of the past few years (for me):
Dark Knight
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
No Country for Old Men
Serenity
Pan's Labyrinth
Love Actually
Granted, not all of those are Hollywood films but most are. There are plenty of indie films that are likely way better than anything in that list. There was a vampire movie from Sweden, translation: Let the Right One In that had a bunch of hype as the greatest vampire film ever made. I saw it, but I guess my expectations were too high. I still think Fright Night is the best. :-)
Re:I missed it? (Score:1, Informative)
http://binsearch.info/?q=X-Men.Origins.Wolverine.&max=25&adv_age=7&server= [binsearch.info]
Re:I missed it? (Score:5, Informative)
Yeah, but like condoms, Peerguardian is not 100% effective.
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Fun fact- at the height of its output in 1934 or so, MGM was producing a feature film every week, with several simultaneous side units producing episodes of serials ever 5 days or so. All of the other studios had similar output -- even a small studio like Republic could shoot, cut and deliver a western in a matter of weeks; most of these films were average, and are forgotten. Have you any idea how many Wallace Beery boxing films there were? Or Charlie Chan features? There were like 12. You open up a fan magazine from the 30s and you can read about 40 films and you're lucky if you recognize 3 of them.
There's always been gobs of product, and every year only a few of them rise to the top. The quality of feature motion pictures now is probably, in the mean, better I'd say, just because there's so much room now to get downscale stuff release on TV and cable.
Re:I missed it? (Score:3, Informative)
The Alamo Drafthouse Village in Austin just had all of its screens upgraded to Sony's 4K DLP projectors. [originalalamo.com] Only the second theater in Texas to offer films in 4K DLP.
Right now only Sony and WB are distributing films in 4K, but everyone else is expected to jump on board soon. The 4K projectors must have some nice scalar chips in them because 2K films seem more impressive displayed on them as well.
Re:Movies are loved by those who go to the theater (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I missed it? (Score:2, Informative)
I own a movie theatre. My admission prices are $6 for adult admission, $4 for children 12 and under and seniors, and $4 for matinees.
I also sell popcorn for $2.50, $3.50 and $4.50, and soda for $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50.
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I can think of dozens of movies from 2008 that had all the "depth" you can desire.
Doubt with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Body of Lies, Milk, Benjamin Button, Changeling and Gran Torino (Clint is the greatest living American director!) Tell No One and those are just a few of the big-studio productions that come to mind without my having to think about it.
I think what you're really trying to say is that there have been no big special-effects extravaganzas like the kind of movies you like to watch, which really doesn't have anything at all to do with "depth". But even if you take only the kind of movies you can understand into consideration, there have been some really excellent productions recently. Whether it was your cup of tea of not, The Dark Knight was an amazingly "deep" look at the superhero genre, with some very thoughtful performances and direction.
I understand that you started drinking a little bit early today, and you're a little bit fucked-up, so I'm not holding your off-hand idiocy against you. I'm a bit surprised that others thought your comment "Insightful" though.
Re:I missed it? (Score:3, Informative)
IIRC, one of the first things the Joker's recording says is, "If anyone jumps off the boat, I'll blow it up."
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Re:Review!? (Score:2, Informative)
It's a summer blockbuster without any finished CGI (and missing most of the half-finished stuff, too), close to no color grading, and missing a lot of the foley. Since a lot of this was shot in the controlled environment of a sound stage that means you're constantly put off balance by the lack of life in the film because a team of professionals haven't added back in what could have been there in the first place but isn't because it's much...much easier to add effects to it later if there's no surprises.
It's also lacking much of a plot, the characters lack any motivation for what they do and tend to go off on wild unhinged killing sprees simply to give them something to slash or shoot leaving you thinking "Umm, why did that just happen?" most of the time. The best thing I can say about it is that the stunt men are well trained and skilled at what they do.
I'm sure the final cut will have lots of nice explosions, though.
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Only one peer has to be a wolf in the sheep. In a swarm of that popularity, there may be 3500 peers. Odds are slim indeed that all 3500 of them are NOT mpaa agents running BT logging tools. That safepeer or whatever it is isn't providing much beyond a false sense of security. They mainly block known subnets. If someone takes a logger home and loads it on their PC, (and I'm sure they do) then it will sneak into the swarm no matter what you try.
I know several people that have received multiple letters from their ISPs. A couple have been told "one more and we disconnect you". I haven't ran into anyone that's actually gotten the boot though so I don't know if they don't carry through, or if everyone just gives up on BT after the warnings look genuine.
Private trackers (and I don't mean "demonoid" private) are probably the safest way to BT at this time. Those users have to keep a ratio, and the wolves don't usually upload to the swarm, (seeing as that would either #1 be infringement, or #2 produce bad checksums and get you kicked) they just connect and quietly log IPs from the tracker scrapes. Those servers usually introduce some level of responsibility to the inviter for his invite tree also so people don't just invite random individuals, and invites are in too limited a supply to waste.
Re:I missed it? (Score:5, Informative)
Second, you can set your client to not download anything but the tiny .NFO file for every torrent, and then share it back. Doing this, you get to watch the IPs connected to the tracker, but never share anything dangerous.
That doesn't work how you think it does. Files are divided into "pieces", which vary in size but are a tradeoff to keep piece size reasonable (~2mb) yet keep total piece count reasonable. (~1000) Too big of a piece size and it takes too long to get each piece. (and too much to redownload if a hash fails) Too many pieces means more tracker overhead and larger .torrent files.
So that .NFO at the front is bundled with perhaps 1.98mb of the start of the next file, in the first piece. There's no way to get (or share) just the .NFO file itself. The torrent pieces are made from a single giant (think TAR) file of the entire torrent. You can see this when you tell your client to download just one specific file. Look at the % complete and you'll notice the file before and after the one you wanted, you have like 2% of. That's because file boundaries rarely match piece boundaries. If you just select the first file, (say its the .NFO) you will download a percentage of the next file also. (you will get all of the first piece) It's totally unavoidable.
(and yes, I wrote a bittorrent client)
Re:Article Quotes (Score:1, Informative)
LOTR 3 being available two months before the movie was released to theaters? You're full of shit. I followed the scene very closely at the time and do not recall anything of the sort. Like with parts 1 and 2 though, a DVD screener was released fairly quickly after the theatrical release.
Unless you were in say Japan where the movie didn't premiere until the following March.