4. A DVD Quality Workprint Is Leaked Months Before Release Day - X-Men Origins: Wolverine
It's the nightmare that absolutely no director - or Hollywood studio, for that matter - on Earth wants to have to face: a high quality workprint of a soon to be released motion picture making its way out into the world, with everyone who might have ventured outside to see the film in cinemas no longer needing to bother. Groan. So we all likely remember when this little incident occurred, don't we? With just weeks until the film was set to make its theatrical debut, a full-length workprint of X-Men Origins: Wolverine found its way online and was downloaded - brace yourself - a whopping 4.5 million times. Can you imagine how much revenue was lost? The workprint also happened to contain no watermarks or timecodes, so anybody who was watching the flick was essentially watching the DVD version in all its glory. What was notable about the workprint was the lack of polished special effects, of course - some scenes had them missing entirely, which was kind of funny. The culprit behind the leak was never found, despite 20th Century Fox's insistence that they'd be using forensic technology - and the FBI - to track the source of the occurrence.