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Posted:  07 Apr 2009 20:48   Last Edited By: Tim
Fox News columnist Roger Friedman is out after posting a review of a leaked full-length work print of " X-Men Origins: Wolverine ." Fox News said Monday that the company's representatives and Friedman "mutually agreed to part ways immediately."

Friedman had been an entertainment writer who has contributed to FoxNews.com for 10 years. He wrote in his Fox 411 column Thursday that downloading the 20th Century Fox superhero prequel was "so much easier than going out in the rain" and that the movie "exceeds expectations at every turn."

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/fox-news-columnist-out-after-wolverine-review-ap

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Posted:  08 Apr 2009 11:10
Here's what Hugh Jackman has to say on the subject.

X-Men Origins star Hugh Jackman has called the leaking of his film a month before release a "serious crime".

An unfinished version of the film was downloaded an estimated 100,000 times from file-sharing websites last week and is now being investigated.

The Australian actor said it had left him "heartbroken" and amounted to a "Ferrari without a paint job".

He was promoting the Wolverine film at Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour and arrived by swooping from a helicopter.
Posted:  08 Apr 2009 14:30
I wish he hadn't used the words "heartbroken". That sounds a little wimpy. He should have pulled a Wolverine and said something like, "If I find the bum that leaked my film I'm going to beat him to a bloody pulp." Something like that. Instead of "heartbroken". I wonder what John Wayne would have said?

You know I understand the anger they have over this illegal copy being released, and I hope they get whoever put it out there, but what I don't understand is why a reviewer would be fired for reporting on it. It's not like he trashed the movie based on this illegal copy.
Posted:  08 Apr 2009 16:13
I think he was sacked because he suggested he would down load more illegal film which make it sound like he supports illegal downloading. Plus he worked for a Fox media company which might suggest Fox itself supports downloading.

Maybe Hugh said he's tear out the heart of the one who did the dirty. It's been lost in translation from Oz to American
Posted:  08 Apr 2009 17:08
Right now that sounds a lot better.
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