Hollywood only has itself to blame for two highly-anticipated unreleased movies hitting piracy websites on Sunday, multiple insiders told TheWrap.
Quentin Tarantino‘s “The Hateful Eight” and Alejandro Iñárritu’s “The Revenant” have been illegally downloaded to over 1.3 million computers in the past 24 hours, according to piracy analysts Excipio, though neither film hits theaters until Christmas Day.
Awards season DVDS known as “screeners,” sent to Hollywood guilds and voting members like those of the motion picture academy and Screen Actors Guild, were to blame for the copies circulating online, the report suggested.
“They’re sending out DVDs to thousands and thousands of people.