As most folks know the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie is coming out. However it had a huge setback as a leak spread all over the nets. Millions of illegal downloads later, Fox 411 freelance columnist Roger Friedman watched (downloaded), wrote a review of the movie and posted it on a Fox News web site.
Basically, he was promoting piracy of the film (according to Fox)...on his job. So this pissed off the folks at Fox and now Roger has no job with them.
Here's more:
After Friedman's column on FoxNews.com appeared, both News Corp and Fox condemned it as "promoting a pirated version of Wolverine".
News Corp issued this statement: “Roger Friedman’s views in no way reflect the views of News Corporation. We, along with 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, have been a consistent leader in the fight against piracy and have zero tolerance for any action that encourages and promotes piracy. Once we learned of Roger Friedman’s post we asked Fox News to remove it, which they did immediately.”
And Fox said, "We’ve just been made aware that Roger Friedman, a freelance columnist who writes Fox 411 on Foxnews.com – an entirely separate company from 20th Century Fox -- watched on the internet and reviewed a stolen and unfinished version of X-Men Orgins: Wolverine. This behavior is reprehensible and we condemn this act categorically -- whether the review is good or bad."
Was this fair?
4 comments:
Completely fair - the phrase "don't bite the hand that feeds you" comes to mind.
Piracy *is* a problem - after all, if no one actually ever pays for movies/music, they'll cease to be a viable business.
Call me cynical, but I don't think Rog will ultimately get fired and Fox LOVES all the controversy. BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ. They are promoting a film.
Piracy is indeed a problem, however, I'm leaning toward the belief this movie was leaked because it sucked and someone at Fox - or perhaps even Marvel - felt it wasn't worth the price of admission.
BTW, rumor has it that he saw an unfinished copy - minus cgi and some other finishing touches - which makes it all the more hysterical.
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