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Paramount reportedly believes the high-profile leak of The Legend Of Aang: The Last Airbender did not come from inside the studio itself, as the original leaker speaks out.<\/p>\n
Reports from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter say Paramount has launched an investigation to work out how the hotly anticipated animated movie ended up plastered all over social media.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender was leaked to X \/ Twitter months ahead of its official premiere on Paramount+. The account that first leaked the movie said someone at Paramount-owned Nickelodeon “accidentally” emailed them the full film. However, according to Variety, \u201cthe initial investigation determined that the vulnerability had nothing to do with Paramount\u2019s systems.\u201d <\/p>\n
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the person behind the X \/ Twitter account claimed \u201ca friend from his hacker days sent him a full copy of the movie,\u201d and, \u201cHe didn\u2019t know what it was until he looked it up.\u201d He posted the initial videos to social media to, he insisted, \u201ctroll a little bit.\u201d Apparently he didn\u2019t think it was a big deal because the movie isn\u2019t set to release in theaters.<\/p>\n
In December, it emerged that Paramount had ditched plans for a theatrical release of The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender in favor of an exclusive launch on streaming platform Paramount+. The much-anticipated animated movie was due out in theaters on October 9, 2026, but Paramount subsequently set Paramount+ as the exclusive home of Avatar Studios content, forcing The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender and original series Avatar: Seven Havens onto the platform.<\/p>\n
Avatar fans who were looking forward to seeing the movie in theaters questioned the decision, which came as a surprise in the context of huge box office success for anime films last year. Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, for example, grossed an incredible $774 million at the global box office.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, we reported on an animator who worked on The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender, who had criticized those who were using Paramount\u2019s \u201cawful decision\u201d to pull the movie from theaters \u201cto justify leaking it.\u201d Michaela Jill Murphy, the original voice of Toph Beifong in Avatar: The Last Airbender, subsequently told fans that they should avoid the leaks completely.<\/p>\n
After the X \/ Twitter account posted the initial clips of the movie, the entire film leaked online from another account. \u201cWelp movie just got leaked on 4chan. GG,\u201d the original leaker tweeted on April 13. \u201cAnd no anon I’m not getting extradited over a cartoon movie chill out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paramount reportedly believes the high-profile leak of The Legend Of Aang: The Last Airbender did not come from inside the studio itself, as the original leaker speaks out. Reports from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter say Paramount has launched an investigation to work out how the hotly anticipated animated movie ended up plastered all over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6790,6791,5205],"class_list":{"0":"post-6866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-airbender","9":"tag-comments","10":"tag-leaker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}