Pirated footage from Spider-Man: No Way Home has already been found on YouTube, leaving Sony Pictures scrambling to get the leaks taken down.
According to THR, several genuine scenes can be found on YouTube. Some of the videos contain major spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home and are as long as 10 minutes in length. Although No Way Home has a release date of Dec. 17 in the United States, it was released on Dec. 15 in many countries around the world. Most of the leaked videos have either foreign subtitles or dubs and range in quality, from grainy video to very clear.
Sony has been quickly issuing copyright takedown notices to get all of the videos scrubbed from YouTube and contain the leaks. Many of the pirated videos were removed quickly and replaced with a statement saying, "Video Unavailable. This video contains content from Sony Pictures Movies & Shows, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
Benedict Cumberbatch, who stars in Spider-Man: No Way Home as Doctor Strange, issued a plea for fans to not spoil the events of the movie for those who have not yet seen it. While walking the red carpet for the movie's premiere, Cumberbatch said, "please try not to spoil it. It's so hard. I know you want to tell all your friends about it. I get it. I'm not going to tell any of my friends about it, so can we do that together?"
Reviews for Spider-Man: No Way Home have been largely positive, and the movie has been Certified Fresh by the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. At the time of writing, it has a critics' score of 94 percent from 133 reviews, making it the second highest reviewed movie in the MCU behind Black Panther. One review calls the movie, "The most essential MCU Spider-Man film and the best."
No Way Home producer Amy Pascal commented on recent rumors that a new trilogy featuring Spider-Man has already been given the go-ahead by Marvel and Sony. When asked about making future Spider-Man movies with star Tom Holland, she said, "As long as he wants to make Spider-Man movies, we will make Spider-Man movies. I'm a producer, and I always think everything is going to work out. If I have my way, we will."
Directed by Jon Watts, Spider-Man: No Way Home is released in theaters on Dec. 17.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter