Comments on: Poll: Will the X-Men Leak Hurt the Movie’s Success?

By: On piracy. « Andrew Fiorentino - Online Journalism Blog

On piracy. « Andrew Fiorentino - Online Journalism Blog — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:35:46 +0000

[...] generous 50 percent decide not to see it in theaters as a result of having downloaded it. (A poll by the Web site TorrentFreak suggests that the proportion is closer to 10 percent, but [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:19:26 +0000

Im a college student, cant afford to go to the cinema.. Just downloaded it, watching it, and wont go to cinema.. thanks for the free movie :P

By: copy/paste

copy/paste — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:59:14 +0000

10 references to this post

* Poll: Will the X-Men Leak Hurt the Movie’s Success? | TorrentFreak « WooMovies.com
* [TOD 01-04-2009]X-Men.Origins.Wolverine.2009.WORKPRINT.XviD-NoGRP – TORRENTs.RO
* ¿Afectará a X-Men Origins: Wolverine que se haya filtrado?
* ¿Afectará a X-Men Origins: Wolverine que se haya filtrado? : Blogografia
* X-Men Leak Downloaded Over a Million Times | InstantIdiocy
* Some Pirates Won’t Watch Illegal ‘Wolverine’ – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
* Muat-Turun Filem X-Men Menjangkaui Nilai Satu Juta | aMaNz
* X-Men Origins Wolverine e i download!!! « Superhero1’s Weblog
* Wolverine egymillió néz?nél | instantFILM
* X-Men Origins: Wolverine Leaked Online – Good or Bad? « Zombie Room

By: X-Men Origins: Wolverine Leaked Online – Good or Bad? « Zombie Room

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Leaked Online – Good or Bad? « Zombie Room — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:49:39 +0000

[...] There is a poll at TorrentFreak where you can give your opinion on the matter. I think the options say it all. There are now 6165 votes counted and the results are pretty clear. You can give your vote here. [...]

By: prodigydancer

prodigydancer — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:50:06 +0000

“Fox is expecting a financial disaster…”

Wow, must be a really #$@!!% movie. ;-) But of course quality doesn’t matter. All that matters is quantity… of money.

Anyone needs another example of how copyright utterly destroys the true art? Ads make people go and watch #$@! and mediacompanies sell them #$@! every day.

No wonder they’re scared of leaks… :-)

By: jolle

jolle — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:45:27 +0000

I say they’re earning too much money anyway,with all the special effects and shit,it’s getting too easy to make a blockbuster without even having a good script…what happened to real movies without any overpriced sfx shit but with an actual plot,interesting characters…fuck hollywood, I’m glad we robbed them of their precious coke money and overpriced designer trinkets,down with the whores of babylon!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:00:11 +0000

The fact that the leak was unfinished and missing special effects will actually end up helping it’s success.

The people who download the leak, watch it, and like it, will want to go to the theater and watch it again just to see the finished product with special effects.

By: big t

big t — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:09:12 +0000

One more thing I wanna add…when this movie drops, it will be a success 1-because it already has a built in audience, and when its successful, we the people who download movieswill have more access to “sneak previews” because other studios will start dropping hotly anticipated movies in this manner. It won’t happen to all thei movies, only the ones they know will be cash cows, so yesm you can look for more movies in the future, and remember BIG T said it first, because hey I got the inside scoop, and we the customers who go to the theaters win in the end.

By: big t

big t — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:05:16 +0000

First of all i don’t buy that I would never go see this in the first place. Just the suspense that hangs over the film of WHAT WILL THE SPECIAL EFFECTS LOOK LIKE will bring people who love the story of X-men, and who downloaded it out in groves. I happened to know a few people that work for FOX, and I don’t know what they know, but I do know alot of shady things go on behind those doors. This will be the biggest blockbuster ths year second only to Transformers 2. Oh, there will be no leak of that movie…sad. This movie Origins is HOT, FOX little experiment of lets leak this version to see what kind of response we will get, will not backfire on them, because first of all there are millions of people who do not download movies, and they will go see it. I forecast a 40 million opening weekend…who am I…it says BIG T that is all you need to know!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:26:06 +0000

I rarely go to theaters. i’ll buy the blu-ray. I have no interest in hearing stupid ringtones, chomping popcorn, wittless chatter, seeing black spots flake across screen or sitting in a tiny chair with no place to stand up and stretch for 2 hours, let alone paying $12 to experience such discomfort.
the environment itself of “going” to a movie kills their movie sales. why don’t they just release a movie online in common video formats? home-theatre-like.

By: Zero Yuy

Zero Yuy — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:09:05 +0000

I’m surely going to watch it in theathers or go and buy it (I think even both). The last three I found really good. The WP is more for the collection, but also makes me want to see how the end up versoin is going to be.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:41:35 +0000

Taken was not hurt by its availability on torrent before its release. So , NO!!

By: ax

ax — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:51:28 +0000

the movie was great, and no i am not going to pay 50 dallors for popcorn to see a movie

By: MaCoDaMieNuTz

MaCoDaMieNuTz — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:26:07 +0000

i really can’t believe people saw it and actually said they liked it! this movie was utter garbage…as though the filmmakers were not trying at all…forget about the special effects, or even deadpool, the entire plot and character involvement is an incoherent mess…they never even thoroughly explain ANYTHING about sabretooth and the other mutant appearances are utterly pointless…o yea…the dialog too…watch out for that

By: DanielSemper

DanielSemper — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:59:48 +0000

I just want to let you know that X-Men Origins: Wolverine is being transmited in Tv Channels in Bolivia. In Bolivia many Tv Channels are used to buy pirated DVDs, and they are now passing this film by Tv.

By: ElKaMiNo

ElKaMiNo — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:34:47 +0000

Personally, I would of pirated it b4 anything else, but, after seeing that WP, I plan on going to theaters as soon as I can!!!

By: Wolverine egymillió néz?nél | instantFILM

Wolverine egymillió néz?nél | instantFILM — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:27:46 +0000

[...] a film terjedésének folyamata már megállíthatatlan. A népes olvasótáborral bíró Torrentfreak a minap szavaztatta olvasóit, szerintük hogyan befolyásolja a film sikerét a workprint [...]

By: phishybongwaters

phishybongwaters — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:05:10 +0000

I can’t speak for everyone, but I’m sure I’m not alone in this. I downloaded this copy, clicked through to make sure it wasn’t an april fools day prank, and have it sitting on my harddrive unwatched.

Once I either see it on the big screen, or the R5/retail hits, I’ll watch it as a personal bonus feature. I’d rather not kill the movie by watching the workprint, which is incomplete in many ways.

I’m also sure there’s a large chunk of people that already watched the workprint, and will be watching either an illegal copy of better quality, or a legit method of viewing.

I don’t see this hurting the movie at all, other than destroying any chance of a secretive plot

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:37:29 +0000

Forget about bits of the CGI missing, this film has so many plot holes it makes crazy!

Okay, interesting to see exactly how Wolverine got all Adamantiumed after the teasers in the previous films. But otherwise, it’s just painfully contrived rubbish.

I would have been angry if I’d been to see this in the cinema and am grateful that the release saved me money and time.

By: X-Men Origins Wolverine e i download!!! « Superhero1’s Weblog

X-Men Origins Wolverine e i download!!! « Superhero1’s Weblog — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:31:05 +0000

[...] è stato scaricato da un milione di persone. In seguito però ad un sondaggio, su questo sito TorrentFreak.com, molta gente che lo ha scaricato, sostiene, che andrà lo stesso a vedere il film al cinema o lo [...]

By: Muat-Turun Filem X-Men Menjangkaui Nilai Satu Juta | aMaNz

Muat-Turun Filem X-Men Menjangkaui Nilai Satu Juta | aMaNz — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:48:55 +0000

[...] menariknya, ianya dijangka bukan membawa kerugian, tetapi sebaliknya – keuntungan. Daripada suatu bancian yang dijalankan, lebih 40% pengguna yang telah memuat-turun filem tersebut mengatakan bahawa mereka [...]

By: Its a crappy movie

Its a crappy movie — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:15:46 +0000

Not worth downloading or watching in theatre.

By: Captain Hazard

Captain Hazard — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:41:41 +0000

Please send this (admittedly unscientific) vote to Fox, they should constantly be reminded of the ignorance of their decisions.

By: basement dweller

basement dweller — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:38:49 +0000

I suspect this is going to be a major disaster for MPAA and the studios, but not in the obvious way. Pretty much everyone who’s seen the workprint will be fascinated to see how the finished work will look!

Additionally all the publicity around the movie is probably going to bring in even more people to see it. This has the potential of turning out to be the best case yet to prove downloading does not hurt sales!

After this unprecedented leak and widespread pre-release piracy, if this movie still does well in the box office, the MPAA is going to have a _very_ tough time keeping on claiming how piracy hurts cinema…

By: Some Pirates Won’t Watch Illegal ‘Wolverine’ - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:28:13 +0000

[...] a blog that covers the file sharing community, recently took a poll of its readers and found that 40 percent of participants who’d sneaked a peek at the Hollywood release were [...]

By: tjr-200

tjr-200 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:27:15 +0000

Wolverine Let Loose Early Via Piracy

http://www.judiciaryreport.com/wolverine_let_loose_early_via_piracy.htm

By: Tinos Val

Tinos Val — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:57:36 +0000

I believe that xmen and especially the character wolverine have great fanboy base. So leaked or not, many people are going to cinemas and/or buying the dvd. Now the thing that is a workprint and unfinished movie, personally i will not bother to see it and i prefer dvdrip release. We wintnessed the creation of a pirated version that is BEFORE CAM verison….what will we see on the future??

By: X-Men Leak Downloaded Over a Million Times | InstantIdiocy

X-Men Leak Downloaded Over a Million Times | InstantIdiocy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:29:30 +0000

[...] most people think that the leak will actually do the movie good, as a poll among our readers indicates that 40% would be more excited to see it in the movie theater or on [...]

By: AdamRav

AdamRav — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:52:59 +0000

Theres like 6 billion people on this planet waiting to see the movie at cinemas

Im pretty sure the movie will be a success

By: MPAA employee

MPAA employee — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:28:31 +0000

Viral marketing at work folks. Helps keep me in a job too. That’s what you call WIN/WIN. Cheers.

By: ¿Afectará a X-Men Origins: Wolverine que se haya filtrado? : Blogografia

¿Afectará a X-Men Origins: Wolverine que se haya filtrado? : Blogografia — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:01:30 +0000

[...] leer una entrada en TorrentFreak donde preguntan si esta filtración “lastimará” o no a la película, me gustaría [...]

By: ¿Afectará a X-Men Origins: Wolverine que se haya filtrado?

¿Afectará a X-Men Origins: Wolverine que se haya filtrado? — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:53:08 +0000

[...] leer una entrada en TorrentFreak donde preguntan si esta filtración “lastimará” o no a la película, me gustaría [...]

By: [TOD 01-04-2009]X-Men.Origins.Wolverine.2009.WORKPRINT.XviD-NoGRP - TORRENTs.RO

[TOD 01-04-2009]X-Men.Origins.Wolverine.2009.WORKPRINT.XviD-NoGRP - TORRENTs.RO — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:10:31 +0000

[...] if the leak will actually hurt the film’s success, or might the opposite be true? Poll: Will the X-Men Leak Hurt the Movie’s Success? | TorrentFreak ce ziceti [...]

By: USAMD24

USAMD24 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:07:29 +0000

Leaks hurt movies that suck and help movies that are good but are weak in the trailers. IE: BOLT — I know people that saw it online before they went to see it and they still got the DVD and went to the theater to see it.

Studies need to stop talking about what they should have sold. How many of those so called losses are really just people that were never going to buy a ticket in the first place?

By: 1epi@torrents.ro

1epi@torrents.ro — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:01:07 +0000

How about, we go to the theater, we watch it. After that we mail torrentfreak.com with the scanned copy of the ticket(with the serial visible), and we sign as pirates from all over the world, and thank them.

TorrentFreak then mail it to MPA.

How about that ?

By: God 2.0

God 2.0 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:50:29 +0000

Hmmm, I think the “leak” is working. What are you all talking about? Thousands and thousands of peers, hundreds if not millions of downloads. I think the “leak” is worth its weight in free word of mouth marketing.

So, NO download. How is this even Movie making now? Will we have 20 comic book “Serious Business” movies in the next 3 years? Be creative, stop making shitty remakes of classic comics. If there is an Iron Man II (which there will be) I will seriously detonate a Cold Fission Device… in my pants.

By: Someguy

Someguy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:36:43 +0000

I’ve seen the leak and I’m more interested in seeing how the final product would turn out… Post-production helps a movie a lot. ;p

By: fiftyone.area

fiftyone.area — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:13:26 +0000

No. I have not downloaded it nor was I planning on going and seeing it.

By: homeisbest

homeisbest — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:50:02 +0000

Much better to watch movies at home where I have the pause, stop, and delete buttons under my thumb, I can also drink alcohol, eat, fart..you get the picture I’m sure. Up Yours Hollywood.

By: King Kong

King Kong — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:45:57 +0000

This is going to be interesting.
If the film is a gigantic success, what will Fox say about bit torrent then? How could Hollywood ever again blame bit torrent for box office failure or even down turns? Will courts around the world and governments come to their senses about making file-sharing illegal? It will be indeed interesting to see what precedent this will cause. If X-Men: Origins is a huge success, in spite of its leak, will Hollywood even see a new marketing tool, releasing workprints of all special effects movies before the major release?
This indeed will be very interesting to see.

By: crapfromwood

crapfromwood — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:43:17 +0000

Haven’t been to a theatre for years, nothing worthwhile from hollywood just regurgitated crap with the same crappy faces on the screen, boring boring boring. HBO’s stuff is much better, fresh faces and originality.

By: bowelmover

bowelmover — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:31:23 +0000

No, because some scenes we missing the completed CGI…bah a spoiler

By: h33t

h33t — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:59:39 +0000

they need the FBI to tell them the leak came from someone working on the movie?

first they attack their consumers, now they are attacking themselves

By: anon2

anon2 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:45:14 +0000

dont have so haven’t seen it. if it is any good, will go to watch it. if it isn’t, reports will soon be posted saying as much, so wont bother. like all so called pirated releases, gives people a chance to watch before wasting hard earned cash on seeing rubbish at the cinema or buying well over priced disks!

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:42:05 +0000

have you seen this news yet? A Fox News film critic who pirated the film to review it has lost their job:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/06/1246232

By: johannesfaust

johannesfaust — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:38:41 +0000

the only weird thing there is the coincidence between the leak and the prosecution of P2P…

By: UltraLeetJ

UltraLeetJ — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:38:09 +0000

Maybe the fact that this has made news on the internet can serve as an insentive. Its just like releasing a demo of a band. They release a few tracks and see if people’ll like that or not and hopefully they would improve that on subsequent releases. I would pirate it anyway, and I truly hope it HURTS some pockets because that is ultimately what the industry deserves for ruining artistic careers and lives.

By: brandon

brandon — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:36:39 +0000

Will I watch it on theater?

No ( Coz I don’t remember when was the last time actually I went there ! )

Will I then buy it on Blu Ray ?

Hell Yeah! That will do justice to my 50″ plasma and bose speakers.

By: ARASH

ARASH — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:33:21 +0000

Well , Nothing can be like going to the Cinema and having fun on Weekends … Pirating doesn’t mean people Don’t Support the good movie… I think it’ll be #1 on the box office soon

By: Random

Random — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:19:33 +0000

The main issue is not whether it will hurt the movie showings or not. It’s the fact that the movie companies are still chasing old business models – and while trying to protect those, alienate their customers.

As sad as it must be for them to give up the huge margins that blockbusters get in the box offices – the studios that wake up and start promoting lower margins direct to online distribution for a fair price model will become the new market leaders.