Film Buyers Fuming Over “Mutiny” Leak

Earlier this week, and days before it was due to hit cinemas exclusively, Amazon’s Jason Statham-led action feature “Mutiny” was released in full on its Prime Video service for at least several hours.

As previously reported, it appears to have been accidental, with a mistake causing the film to be posted on Prime’s product detail page – a spot usually reserved only for trailers for films either coming to or currently in cinemas.

Lionsgate is distributing the film in the U.S. and Deadline reports that they, and several other buyers in foreign markets who’ve spent millions acquiring the film and marketing it, are “understood to be very unimpressed”.

The leak has led to the film already being pirated in different territories, including quite a few where the film wasn’t slated to open until later. The film had already opened in France and Middle East to good numbers before the leak happened. The trade adds that some exhibitors are also very unhappy.

One international buyer calls it not only an “unprecedented situation” but a “major f–k-up” and dubs it a “multimillion-dollar problem for Amazon” and one with “serious repercussions for distributors”.

Lionsgate’s anti-piracy team is reportedly working hard trying to mitigate the damage, and international buyers are trying to coordinate a formal message to Amazon.

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