10 Movies Leaked Before Their Release (Full & Partial Leaks)
With all the talk of the latest X-Men movie, X Men Origins: Wolverine, being leaked online a whole month before its movie release, take a look below for more movies that had film or art leaked from the production before the official release date.
1) X Men Origins: Wolverine 2009 movie leaked online (trailer below) - X Men Origins: Wolverie was leaked online a whole month before its release.
It is not yet known whether this will affect the film’s box office. The general concensus is not, as incomplete movie SFX left theatre goers hungry for more.
2) Hulk 2003 movie leaked online (trailer below) - The Hulk was leaked online two weeks before its release.
The Ang Lee-directed film still managed to open with a $62 million weekend. A week later, though, it experienced a 70 percent box-office drop and went on to be a financial failure (which probably had less to do with the leak than with the film being poorly received by both critics and moviegoers).
3) Iron Man 2008 movie leaked online (trailer below) - leaked before its release.
4) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008 movie leaked online (trailer below) - leaked before its release.
Marketing relied heavily on the public’s nostalgia for the series, with products taking inspiration from all four films.
Anticipation for the film resulted in a legal dispute over an extra violating his non-disclosure agreement, and another man was arrested for stealing a computer containing various documents related to the project. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull went on worldwide release on May 22, 2008
5) Sex and the City 2008 movie leaked online (trailer below) - leaked in part before its release.
The rest of the movies are under the cut - JUMP to view the rest!
6) The Simpsons Movie 2007 leaked online (trailer below) - leaked before its release.
7) Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith movie leaked online (trailer below) - leaked before its release.
In 2005, eight people were charged with copyright-infringement offenses related to the leaking of ”Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.” Oscar-nominated films consistently show up on the Internet, as screeners are distributed to Academy voters.
8 ) I Love You Man 2009 - not a full spoiler - but, a bystander shot footage of the movie being taped and put it online (trailer below) - leaked before its release.
Last spring, a bystander recorded footage of Jason Segel fighting Lou Ferrigno on the set of ”I Love You, Man”.
9) The Happening 2008 movie leaked online (trailer below) - leaked before its release.
10) Batman: The Dark Knight 2008 movie leaked online (trailer below) leaked online before its release.
Several parts of the movie, and then the first 15 minutes of the film were leaked (up to and including) a whole year before its release.
Titles via MTV.
Wrong. Iron Man WASN’T leaked before its release- someone posted an animated Iron Man movie claiming it was Iron Man.