BY EMIL TIEDEMANN
Fox News 411 freelance columnist Roger Friedman was fired earlier this week, after he posted a review of a bootleg copy of the upcoming feature X-Men Origins: Wolverine (due May 1), which is produced by the same company that owns Fox News (20th Century Fox).Friedman even admitted in his review that he had illegally downloaded a full-length bootleg copy of Wolverine, now the poster child for Hollywood piracy. "It took really less than seconds to start playing it all right onto my computer," Friedman wrote in his online post.
Never before has a film been so popular before it even hit theatres, as an unfinished version of the potential blockbuster was leaked to the net late last month. Wolverine, which stars Hugh Jackman as the Marvel Comics character (he also co-produced), cost some $150 million to film and produce, and is still expected to post big numbers at the box office this summer, despite being downloaded 75,000 times within one day of being leaked (March 31).
Wolverine was directed by Oscar-winner Gavin Hood (Tsotsi), and also stars Liev Schreiber (as Sabretooth), Ryan Reynolds (as Deadpool), Taylor Kitsch (as Gambit), Danny Huston (as William Stryker), and Black Eyed Peas rapper-producer will.i.am (as John Wraith).
1 comment:
hardly worth downloading for free anyway
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