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An apprehension has been made successful relationship pinch nan leak of nan Paramount+ movie The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender, Deadline has confirmed.
A 26-year-old has been detained successful Singapore for leaking nan animated movie aft accessing a media server without authorization.
According to a study from The Straits Times, authorities seized various physics devices, and nan investigation revealed that “the man had gained unauthorized distant entree to nan server and downloaded nan film.”
If recovered guilty, nan man could look up to 7 years successful prison, a good of up to $50,000, aliases both.
Last week, a personification connected X shared clips of nan unreleased movie connected nan microblogging platform, claiming that personification from wrong Nickelodeon “accidentally emailed” it. The personification would besides frighten to station nan full movie if Paramount didn’t merchandise a trailer for nan animated film.
The posts were deed pinch copyright notices, but nan movie has already gone viral, pinch different users sharing it.
The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender was primitively slated to premiere successful theaters connected October 10, 2025, but it was later pushed backmost to January 30, 2026. In December 2025, Deadline reported that nan film, greenlit by nan erstwhile Paramount Animation administration, would not get a theatrical merchandise aft all. Instead, nan movie would watercourse connected Paramount+ connected October 9, 2026.
Following nan leak, animator Julia Schoel, who worked connected nan film, took to X to definitive her thoughts, saying, “We worked connected nan aang movie for years pinch nan anticipation that’d we’d get to observe each of our difficult activity successful theaters, conscionable to spot group unceremoniously leak nan movie and walk our shots astir connected twitter for illustration candy.”
Schoel noted that “Paramount’s atrocious determination to region nan movie from theaters to warrant leaking it” was “disrespectful to each nan difficult activity nan artists put in.”
Voice formed includes Taika Waititi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Dee Bradley Baker, Freida Pinto, and Ke Huy Quan, joining antecedently announced Dave Bautista, Eric Nam, Jessica Matten, Dionne Quan, Román Zaragoza, and Steven Yeun.
