Oz FX house denies it leaked X-Men flick
p2pnet news view | P2P | Movies:- ‘Wasn’t us’ swears Australian visiual effects company Rising Sun Pictures.
Its name appears in the X-Men: Origins workprint which showed up on the P2P networks a month before the final version was slated for release.
“In response to the recently stolen copy of the 20th Century Fox film ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ leaked to the Internet, Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) denies that it is in any way related to the unauthorised release of the material,” it states, continuing »»»
RSP Chairman and co-founder Tony Clark: “From the reports we’ve had, the stolen material is a work in progress version of the film with many incomplete sections. As we worked on individual sequences within the film, neither RSP or its staff members have ever been in possession of a full-length version, so it would have been impossible for the movie to have been leaked from here.
It’s common practice for work in progress between us and the production to carry vendor watermarks and for these works in progress to be integrated into various edits of the film for screenings which would explain why our name appears.”
So that leaves only [you guessed it] a Hollywood insider. heh
Meanwhile, If you’re among the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people who’ve watched Fox’s leaked X-Men: Origins work-print and its only partially completed (but still very cool) CGI, you’ll be wanting to see the finished product.
If we remember correctly, Fux guy Roger Friedman said much the same in a blog post in which he confessed he’d watched the ‘pirated’ flick.
Among other things, “Right now, my ‘cousins’ at 20th Century Fox are probably having apoplexy,” he says, going on »»»
I doubt anyone else has seen this film. But everyone can relax. I am, in fact, amazed about how great ‘Wolverine’ turned out. It exceeds expectations at every turn. I was completely riveted to my desk chair in front of my computer.
Or, rather, he said.
The item has since been terminated — just like Friedman.
Probably, what really did him in, reckons NewsARama, was this »»»
I did find the whole top 10 [movies in theaters], plus TV shows, commercials, videos, everything, all streaming away. It took really less than seconds to start playing it all right onto my computer. I could have downloaded all of it but really, who has the time or the room? Later tonight I may finally catch up with Paul Rudd in I Love You, Man. It’s so much easier than going out in the rain!
DarkNets aren’t tomorrow
” … thanks to the graphic model above, I will be ‘evaluating’ the X-Men: Origins WORKPRINT tonight with a glass of wine,” we quoted p2pnet contributor surfer as saying in a Reader’s Write to the p2pnet DarkNets post.
“He won’t be alone,” we said, going on:
“And his comment is more than just a little appropriate considering he made the graphic which goes along with that story, which makes the point DarkNets aren’t tomorrow, they’re today.
“With that in mind, the news that Fox’s X-men Origins workprint is already on the P2P networks – in spades – shouldn’t come as any big surprise.”
Rising Sun Pictures – Leaked ‘Wolverine’, April, 2009
a month before – X-Men: Origins – workprint online, April 2, 2009
NewsARama – Declawed: Roger Friedman fired for Wolverine review, April 5, 2009
DarkNets – DarkNets: not tomorrow, but here and now, April 2, 2009
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