Distributors Call In Police Over Leaked Disaster Movie

August 31, 2009, by enigmax 9

A movie described as a “mega-hit disaster film” was leaked to the Internet this weekend. It was downloaded 100,000 times and the distributors have angrily called in the police to investigate.

“Haeundae” is a Korean disaster movie from CJ Entertainment and JK Film that has been doing very well just lately.

The movie is about a “super-tsunami” but it sprang a bigger leak this weekend after it appeared on the Internet.

The movie’s distributors called in the police – but not before it allegedly clocked up 100,000 downloads.

“This is a clear criminal act, which had not only caused great revenue loss, but such an act hinders global development of Korean films, given the film was just released in China and the U.S. We will take every legal measure necessary to reprimand an individual or an organization involved,” said the distributor.

According to Hollywood Reporter, the movie has already sold nearly 10.5 million tickets.

9 Comments

kottonface
Aug 31, 2009, 20:37
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I can kinda see why there upset, but in the real this is probably the best promotion this movie will get. Who is to say that 50 out the 100 thousand that d/l it won’t go see it in theater’s or buy the dvd now that they have seen. Heck, I bet 20% of the people who d/l will end up buying it just to have it…not to mention 10.5 million tickets at an average of $9 a ticket, they will be fine.

Deville
Aug 31, 2009, 20:38
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Yea, great loss, if everybody who downloaded the film would buy it theay would have 1% more revenue…

authoriseduser
Sep 2, 2009, 19:49
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I don’t believe this report. I think the producers of this film made this press release up so that people who never in a million years would have wanted to see the movie would now want to go see it. I mean, when was the last time you thought about going to see a Korean disaster movie? It’s like in the old days when Hollywood producers would insure an actress’s legs for $1 million each – it was a publicity stunt. And like when it emerged that David Copperfield had entered into a contract and was paying his “fiance” Claudia Schiffer to attend his performances – they never married, of course – it was all a business deal – and Copperfield traded on Schiffer’s image. This movie did NOT get downloaded 100,000 times (I’m surprised they didn’t say it had been downloaded a million times).