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Chad Souder
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posted 04-07-2009 11:11 AM

Friedman was a cheap gossip columnist that should have been fired long ago. Unreliable is a term used many times in reference to his work. He probably is just that stupid.

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Chris Slycord
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posted 04-07-2009 11:46 AM

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I can't help but wonder if Roger Friedman was tired and fed up with working for Fox News and pulled this stunt to get out of the place. Surely he knew X-Men Origins: Wolverine was a 20th Century Fox release and that 20th Century Fox is a property of News Corp. -Friedman's employer. He had to have posted his review of the bootleg movie on purpose, right? He couldn't have been so stupid to be unaware of the consequences of his online comments, right?

I was a contract employee at Microsoft testing Perfect Dark Zero and as a condition of employment you signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement.

And yet a dipshit kid posted information about the game on a Microsoft-sponsored website from his work email account. The kid liked working there but just was that stupid.

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Janusz Antkiewicz
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posted 04-07-2009 12:53 PM

Oh come on...I don't know why all the fuss... Every single one of us would come up with a nice review with phrases like "Jackman's stunnig performance", "extraordinary special effects" etc.
That's why I treat what this guy wrote (whatever we may call it) as a good funny joke-surely he has a sense of humour.
Seems like some people in these economically challenging [Smile]

times some people have lost the ability too laugh at themselves.

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Jason Burroughs
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posted 04-07-2009 05:27 PM

Wonder if this has anything do do with the recent FBI Seizure of a Colo data center in Dallas:

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/04/03/fbi-seizes-servers-at-dallas-data-center/

FBI Seizes Servers at Dallas Data Center
April 3rd, 2009 : Rich Miller
The FBI raided a Dallas carrier hotel Thursday and seized equipment from data center space operated by Core IP Networks. Agents armed with a search warrant appear to have confiscated all the servers in the facility, which houses gear for about 50 businesses.

“The FBI has seized all equipment belonging to our customers,” Matthew Simpson, the CEO of Core IP, said in a message. “Many customers went to the data center to try and retrieve their equipment, but were threatened with arrest.”

Simpson says the FBI told him it was investigating a customer of Core IP, but claims the company in question is a prior customer that no longer colocates with Core IP. Simpson told a Dallas TV station that the investigation concerns pirated movies.

That claim has triggered speculation that the probe is tied to the leak of the feature film “Wolverine.” A rough version of the film is circulating online, several weeks before the movie is scheduled to debut in theaters.

The 6 a.m. raid took place at Core IP’s offices on two floors of 2323 Bryan Street in Dallas, a major carrier hotel owned by Digital Realty Trust. Simpson said Core IP leases space from Telx, another provider in the facility.

The FBI told Channel 11 News in Dallas that ”it could take several days to restore the servers of the affected companies.” That’s not happy news for customers, which reportedly include numerous phone companies, impacting e911 caller location services in some areas of the country. FBI officials told the TV station “they could speed up their analysis of the web servers if the affected companies would contact them.”

Simpson said the FBI also showed up at his residence with a search warrant, but said neither he nor Core IP were doing anything illegal. “If you run a datacenter, please be aware that in our great country, the FBI can come into your place of business at any time and take whatever they want, with no reason,” he wrote.

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Galen Murphy-Fahlgren
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posted 04-07-2009 06:04 PM

quote: Bobby Henderson
I can't help but wonder if Roger Friedman was tired and fed up with working for Fox News and pulled this stunt to get out of the place. Surely he knew X-Men Origins: Wolverine was a 20th Century Fox release and that 20th Century Fox is a property of News Corp. -Friedman's employer. He had to have posted his review of the bootleg movie on purpose, right? He couldn't have been so stupid to be unaware of the consequences of his online comments, right?

I read the article about that on Yahoo, and had a good, hearty laugh. Even I thought that was stupid.

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Phil Blake
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posted 04-09-2009 01:42 AM

quote: Frank Angel
Bet you won't see any FBI agents dragging anyone off the Fox lot in handcuffs.

I have heard that the master was sent to Fox Studios in Queensland australia for the final soundmixing. It was said that the online file appeared following this and also 200,000 pirate DVd,s.

maybe someone should rock up with the cuffs [Mad]

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Ian Parfrey
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posted 04-09-2009 05:20 AM

Isn't the Fux Studios in New South Wales? I know we have Warnout Bros here in Queensland.

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Jonathan Althaus
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posted 04-10-2009 08:38 PM

A month ago I didnt see how Wolverine was going to do any business with Star Trek coming out 7 days later. Unless they could hype the film up and give it major press in april .........

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Bobby Henderson
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posted 04-10-2009 09:26 PM

quote: Janusz Antkiewicz
Oh come on...I don't know why all the fuss... Every single one of us would come up with a nice review with phrases like "Jackman's stunnig performance", "extraordinary special effects" etc. That's why I treat what this guy wrote (whatever we may call it) as a good funny joke-surely he has a sense of humour.

Sense of humor? Shit. Business is business.

If you have an employee who is directly undermining your business and even going so far to publicly say in a published work how easy it is to do by describing the act as like "walking out into the rain," heh heh, simply put, you fire his ass.

Hell, if I found out one of my coworkers was dubbing company art files (largely my work) and giving it to competitors I wouldn't only want the guy arrested I would actually be highly tempted to shoot the bastard. Sense of humor be damned.

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Chad Souder
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posted 04-11-2009 05:23 PM

quote: Jonathan Althaus
A month ago I didnt see how Wolverine was going to do any business with Star Trek coming out 7 days later.

Wolverine is one of the most (if not the most) popular characters in all the comic book world. If someone told me there were more X-Men fans than Star Trek fans, I wouldn't be argue. All three of the X-Men movies went over $150 mil domestically, with 2 and 3 going well over $200 mil. The last Star Trek movie to go over $100 mil domestic was IV: The Voyage Home in 1986.

My point is: Woverine is going to be huge regardless of what marketing they have done this month. I'm guessing it will double the gross of Star Trek.

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Jonathan Althaus
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posted 04-11-2009 09:50 PM

Rentrak projections have Wolverine at $156.4 and Star Trek at $182.3

Edit

Opening weekend

Wolverine-67.1
Star Trek-72.0

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Greg Anderson
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posted 04-11-2009 10:21 PM

I don't know about final grosses, but opening weekend numbers might just favor Wolverine because it's the first one out of the chute. After all, Iron Man made $98 million [Eek!]

on the first weekend of May. The next weekend it was Speed Racer. I don't think Star Trek will do as poorly as Speed Racer, of course, but there is something to be said about stealing everyone else's thunder just because you're first.

quote: Chad Souder
The last Star Trek movie to go over $100 mil domestic was IV: The Voyage Home in 1986.

Make that the only Star Trek movie to go over $100 million domestic.

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 04-12-2009 01:58 AM

Kind of funny that now these media types can't even wait until a movie comes out before posting its opening weekend and cumulative grosses. So far this year, they've been wrong about 90% of the time.

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Phil Blake
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posted 04-12-2009 03:33 AM

quote: Ian Parfrey
Isn't the Fux Studios in New South Wales? I know we have Warnout Bros here in Queensland.

yes indeedy the foxes lair is in NSW.

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Janusz Antkiewicz
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posted 04-13-2009 12:51 PM

Just clicked ENTER too quickly (things happen, right? ) As soon as I learn how to delete an entire post, move along, please.

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