Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Studio ups download figure for pirated "Wolverine"

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - An unfinished pirated version of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" which hit the Internet March 30, well before the film No. 1 debut in theaters, has been downloaded nearly 4 million times, News Corp.. 20th Century Fox said Wednesday.

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Whether online, such attention wounded "Wolverine" at the box office is debatable, but the assertion of Fox 4 million is about four times higher than previous estimates.

During the past year, the average ticket price of $ 7.18, piracy could - but unlikely - Fox cost $ 28.7 million.

"Piracy is a serious problem for us. We believe that there are over 4 million downloads of the flight of" Wolverine "film that was up there," News Corp. COO Peter Chernin said analysts Wall Street Wednesday.

Chernin, President and CEO Rupert Murdoch to speak on a conference call. A spokesman for News Corp. confirmed later that the figure was 4 million and not 1 million, the lowest number being the wisdom of several days.

Chernin said on the call that many websites illegally trading "Wolverine" were closed.

Piracy of intellectual property, including movies, Chernin said, is "a great act of industrial espionage, industrial sabotage, as we have seen in terms of its economic impact."

However, "Wolverine" was a better opening weekend than any other film this year.

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