'Minecraft Movie' Leaks Online: Full Unfinished Version Shared

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/minecraft-movie-leaks-online-unfinished-effects-1236360578/

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haunter• 1 year ago

The Telesync version is out for days too and it's pretty good quality.

But honestly the workprint version's jankiness somehow makes it fun. Like those music videos with music removed on Youtube

hifikuno• 1 year ago

I remember years ago seeing a prerelease version of one of the wolverine movies. As the CGI models were still grayscale, it was cool to see at what points the fights were actors and what points it was CGI.

starshadowx2• 1 year ago

That was X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I was also thinking about that when I heard about this leak. This was the infamous Deadpool scene from it without the finished special effects, it's actually pretty interesting to see it this way.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R5ffysgVvA

jvm___• 1 year ago

Way back when the first spy kids movie leaked without CGI so the kids were flying Superman style without the associated backdrops.

mystraline3• 1 year ago

This is also why I like Yandex and non-US and non-european search especially in terms of censorship by copyright in the USA.

If you go to Yandex and search "a minecraft movie torrent" the first 6 links are the preprint that variety.com 'claims' were mostly removed. In reality, the only sites deindexed were Google and Bing.

This shows that the limits of the first amendment are speech when its convenient. Links, webpages, and more are speech, but also completely censored in the US media.

Weirdly, Russian based companies have less a problem with the free speech the USA kicks us offline for.

sepositus• 1 year ago

This shows that the limits of the first amendment are speech when its convenient. Links, webpages, and more are speech, but also completely censored in the US media.

I'm a bit confused by this. Are you saying that publishing the text (speech) of a copyrighted book, and then having the link to that text de-indexed, is the equivalent of violating the First Amendment? I assume Google and Bing just treated this as any other copyright violation.

bigstrat2003• 1 year ago

This shows that the limits of the first amendment are speech when its convenient. Links, webpages, and more are speech, but also completely censored in the US media.

For better or for worse, the US only has free speech protection which is binding on the government. Sometimes that's good (you can kick out people who don't behave). Sometimes that's bad (censored media). But even in the cases where it's bad, it's not clear to me that it would be worth it to enact freedom of speech laws that apply to private parties. It seems like the cure might be worse than the disease in that case.

joshfee• 1 year ago

The problem with enforcing "freedom of speech" on private parties is that it essentially the same as infringing the speech of that private party.

The only issue I have is when companies can play both sides and in one breath claim they're neutral for the purpose of section 230 protection, and then in the next breath take part in censorship because it's better for business.

Pick a lane, either lane, but you shouldn't get it both ways

Fogest• 1 year ago

Anytime I am searching for my live TV PPV "linux iso" streams I always pull up Yandex. Same goes for pretty much anything piracy. Even sometimes searching for research/stats that are more "controversial" are often down-ranked in Google and hard to find. Unfortunately there is a lot of political bias I've noticed more and more often in Google Search results, and resorting to Yandex sometimes results in better results.

I personally am a Kagi subscriber as well as find Google's search results in general to be terrible. Censorship/political bias/blogspam/terrible AI results are all the big factors for me switching away from using them much at all.

Cheer2171• 1 year ago

The

First

Amendment

Applies

The

Government.

Google

Not

The

Government.

IlikeKitties2• 1 year ago

YET

NikkiA• 1 year ago

Yet the moment google says 'you can't make videos calling for the murder of trans people' suddenly 'mah first amendment' comes out of your cohort's lips.

Aurornis• 1 year ago

Weirdly, Russian based companies have less a problem with the free speech the USA kicks us offline for.

Yes, Russia, a place always known for enabling free and unrestricted speech.

You’re not seeing some deep commitment to free speech. You’re seeing a company in a foreign country not prioritizing matters that apply to another country around the world.

Don’t confuse one for the other.

toast0• 1 year ago

Yes, Russia, a place always known for enabling free and unrestricted speech.

The US is well known for enabling free speech, because you can criticize President Trump without negative consequences. But it's the same in Russia; you can criticize President Trump all you want.

lolinder• 1 year ago

A more precise conclusion would be: "This shows that US based companies will actively self-censor to avoid getting sued for copyright infringement. Russian-based companies don't have to respect US copyright law, so they have no legal obligation to remove infringing content."

Yes, copyright infringement is not protected speech in the US and you can be held civilly liable for it. Yes, adversarial countries don't enforce each others' laws. So yes, Yandex is a good place for finding pirated works. But that hardly makes it a bastion of "free speech", it just means that they don't have the same legal risks as Google does.

mystraline3• 1 year ago

DMCA 1201 indicates that I can be held criminally liable, not just civially, for free speech discussing a method of working around, bypassing, or defeating a perceived "technical measure of prevention".

That alone is violation of the US govt's 1fa restriction purely in the favor of companies.

xp84• 1 year ago

Yeah somehow I bet that if it’s content highly illegal in Russia it’s going to be very much the other way around.

yieldcrv2• 1 year ago

A common misinterpretation of the free speech concept as codified in the 1st amendment.

The 1st amendment gives a freedom of association.

All of these private organizations are choosing not to associate with that content, squarely in line with the 1st amendment. The 1st amendment just says the government won’t criminally sanction anyone for not associating with someone else.

This is in addition to the protections against the government for your speech and expression.

mystraline3• 1 year ago

Please.

Its funny how Section 230 goes both advantageous ways for companies, without either of the downsides. But mere mortals, yeah, doesn't end well for us who try.

userbinator• 1 year ago

Russia is just more interested in censoring political speech than going after copyright claims. The same applies to China.

mitthrowaway2• 1 year ago

Interesting! Do they also have the Navalny movie?

netsharc• 1 year ago

Going to yandex.com and looking for Navalny gives results.. so too for "Putin's palace", Navalny's team's documentary about the regime's corruption (links to navalny.com and medusa.io).

Isn't Yandex a Dutch-based company now? Then again, searching from within Russia might give different results...

Try using Facebook Messenger to send a link to PirateBay; it's blocked. I find it disgusting that our communication media is controlled by billionaires who've revealed themselves as fuckwits on Jan 20. The same dislike is there for corporations controlling what we can find online... Then again, I really don't mind YouTube refusing the hosting of videos from Covid conspiracy nutters (yes I could be wrong and they could be right, but I guess like every other nutjob, I'm comfortable in my ignorance pretending to be confidence.)

sva_• 1 year ago

It is a lot crazier when you Google politicians and the search page is clearly curated using the 'right to be forgotten' law in the EU. I don't feel like that was the intention behind the law, but then again, the ones abusing it are the ones who passed it.

lm28469• 1 year ago

You can't swear on TV between 6am and 10pm, absolute freedom of speech never existed, there are laws about libel, defamation, copyright, inciting crimes, &c.

Grab a megaphone and go sing the national anthem at 2am in the middle of a residential area if you want to learn about freedom of speech

os2warpman• 1 year ago

Yandex only became a Russian company fairly recently, after over 20 years of being based outside of Russia.

It was sold, below market value, to a group of Russian investors last year for the specific purpose of controlling it and suppressing free speech.

Nobody, not a single human being in the entire history of humanity, has ever died because they couldn’t pirate a children’s film.

Many people have died, and continue die, because of Yandex’s cooperation with the FSB in shaping opinion, controlling the dissemination of information, and directly reporting users to the FSB for problematic searches.

Pirating children’s films and controlling the availability of news articles are different tiers of free speech.

Teever• 1 year ago

Those aren't quite comparable.

How many people have died because of American attempts to 'shape opinion, control the dissemination of information, and directly reporting users to the law enforcement for problematic searches?'

Sure Russia is much worse than the US but Americans are still being persecuted for smoking weed which is just absurd.

skinnymuch2• 1 year ago

Far more people die because of western corps cooperation with western state depts/govts as being stenographers of the IOF/IDF.

leptons• 1 year ago

Weirdly, Russian based companies have less a problem with the free speech the USA kicks us offline for.

Weirdly you don't realize searching for anything that is against the war in Ukraine will get you thrown in jail in Russia. Mentioning Russia as being in any way superior to the US in terms of freedom of speech is just laughable.

jsheard2• 1 year ago

I wish studios would share these behind-the-curtain versions more often, but I suppose that would go against their apparent belief that CGI is a dirty word that can never be acknowledged even if that means outright lying about how much they used. The last Planet of the Apes movie did go there though, the 4K Bluray includes a "raw cut" of the entire movie which shows exactly what the camera saw.

nailer• 1 year ago

Oh, I’m surprised you wrote that. I follow a lot of VFX accounts and they are constantly posting their work, not full versions of films but enough to show how scenes were built.

jsheard2• 1 year ago

Typically the way it goes is that the studio underplays how much CGI they used during the marketing campaign, while the VFX vendors are forced to bite their tongues, and then 6 months after the movie debuts their NDA expires and they finally get to show how much CGI there really was. This series is a great watch on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttG90raCNo

In the later parts there's some really egregious examples where promotional behind-the-scenes footage was actually doctored to key out the green screens or present composited shots as if they were done in-camera.

j_bum• 1 year ago

Agreed.

You may already know them, but the “Corridor Crew” channel on YouTube has a great “VFX Artists React” series where they do deep dives into vfx scenes and the behind the scenes.

They often have industry pros come in and share scenes from their work. Great channel and series!

Example vid:

https://youtu.be/fIVUZkIvx6Q?si=pQaXhXKEWZXGXuQ0

'Minecraft Movie' Leaks Online: Full Unfinished Version Shared

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