Ahead of its long-delayed American premiere, an unfinished ‘workprint’ copy of “A Minecraft Movie” is circulating on pirate sites. Warner Bros. is trying to contain this and other leaks, but that may prove difficult. The incident mirrors the infamous 2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine workprint leak and the involvement of the FBI, which led to the arrest and conviction of an uploader. The source of that leak was never publicly disclosed.

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      12 days ago

      Financially Independent, Retire Early? Never heard of that opsec.

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    11 days ago

    I’ve thrown a copy up on my personal website (username + .com) if anyone wants to check it out. From a quick skim I can confirm it is somehow even worse than the normal one. (Mods please remove this if it’s too close to linking to pirated content).

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    11 days ago

    And yet I was saying just today there’s no way I’d go to the movies to see it anyway… Because Microsoft. Yet another example of how they’d never get money anyway but no doubt there’ll be another article claiming they lost billions from the leak or some bs

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      I was totally trying to figure out what Microsoft had to do with this and had a complete brain fart forgetting MS bought Minecraft.

      “Dave my mind is going …I can feel it… I can feel it…”

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    11 days ago

    It’s already available in pretty high quality from pirate stream sites.

    Also available to download as “PRE-HD” whatever that means.

    Edit: PRE-HD means it’s the workprint

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    12 days ago

    A lot of movies go through rewrites and updates before they get released, so saying it’s bad now may not be indicative of the final product. I mean look at Sonic. If that movie got released during its unfinished phase everyone would have hated it. That’s why they do test screenings and ask for feedback before release. Sometimes the movie will drastically change from its original.

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      The workprint leak came a day before the official release, the plot and cut of the film is exactly the same. It’s just missing a significant amount of the effects.

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      12 days ago

      It’s already out in some countries, so there should be some real reviews, though jokes in translation can often be a mixed bag.

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    9 days ago

    "Villagers."

    I’d go so far as to say it’s probably more entertaining than the finished product.

    Edit: I also didn’t see anything about pirated content images in the rules, but if this breaks any please feel free to remove.