Via The Hollywood Reporter comes the news that News Corp’s Fox says the workprint of ‘Wolverine’ has been downloaded illegally 4 million times:
Pirated ‘Wolverine’ bigger than expected
Now, as addressed in our ‘Wolverine’ podcast analysis:
The Film Talk – Part 64 – Wolverine / State of Play
I found the workprint of the film to be far superior to the theatrically released version: in short, seeing the actual work that goes into a pic, including all the physical exertion, wires showing etc., made for a far more compelling movie that the CGI’d up big screen version; hmmm….possible cheesy T-Shirt?: “If it’s CGI Who Cares Who Dies?”
Anyhew – that’s beside the point – Fox says the pic has been downloaded 4 million times and the Reporter speculates that up to 28 million dollars of revenue could have been lost.
What do you think – did the downloads help or hurt ‘Wolverine’?
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Piracy is the great unseen/ undefeatable enemy for the music & movie business that they use to enforce silly and backward restrictions.
That $28million figure is just pathetic. It presupposes that everyone who downloaded it was going to actually go see the movie and now never will -when (as has been proven) the opposite is actually more likely.
More of those downloaders will likely pay to see it in the cinema/dvd/etc. than not. -or at least more of them than might have done so without it.
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When either the music or film industry claim losses I cannot help it but laugh. I remember reading recently that people who download more ilegal mp3's are actually the ones who buy more CDs. In movies it might not be the same but, as Stanley mentioned, not everybody who downloaded a movie was actually going to pay to watch it, and in specific cases it's mostly fanboys who are gonna download and watch such material. I had a version of Hulk (the Ang Lee one) without Hulk (the CGI), pretty much the same than the leaked Wolverine Origins, and it's more like a curiosity than something you'd rather watch.
About the “legal downloadeable material” (Netflix or Hulu), I might be of the very few who prefers to watch a film actually at the cinema. As good as my tv and sound system are, they cannot compite with the real deal. It's just a diferent experience.
Something peculiar was that in Bolivia, the “raw” version of X-Men Origins was aired on television (more info, in spanish, can be found in http://www.aeromental.com/2009/04/07/x-men-orig…) . Instead of chasing ghosts with the piracy thing, I believe that the film and music industry could go after bigger fish like those, where you can actually identify the problem, instead of complain endlessly about the new ways they should learn.
My two cents.
Best regards, guys!
Tit for tat.
I am reading now that AMC & IMAX are ripping off customers paying an extra $3 per person to see the new Star Trek on IMAX…only it's not IMAX – they are showing it on a slightly larger screen and in “digital” instead of 70mm, but still calling it 'IMAX'.
Tit for tat.
I am reading now that AMC & IMAX are ripping off customers paying an extra $3 per person to see the new Star Trek on IMAX…only it's not IMAX – they are showing it on a slightly larger screen and in “digital” instead of 70mm, but still calling it 'IMAX'.