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Lemon of the Week: 20th Century Fox

You have to feel sorry for Gavin Hood and Hugh Jackman who will, in only a few weeks from now, get to field questions about the incompetence behind a studio’s security system. I could have easily given the Lemon of the Week to the individual(s) who lifted an incomplete, working copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and leaked it online, but instead, I’m awarding the honour to 20th Century Fox.

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You have to feel sorry for Gavin Hood and Hugh Jackman who will, in only a few weeks from now, get to field questions about the incompetence behind a studio’s security system. I could have easily given the Lemon of the Week to the individual(s) who lifted an incomplete, working copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and leaked it online, but instead, I’m awarding the honour to 20th Century Fox. It will be a case study for years to come on in-house supervision, and if there is a positive in this theft is that the “art” or “mainstream movies for the masses” should receive the same kind of supervision as museums do when they safeguard their painting collections.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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