Sony accidentally uploaded an entire movie to YouTube instead of its trailer
If you were one of the few people who had heard of the film Khali The Killer before this week, you may have just missed out on your opportunity to catch the movie online for free.
On Tuesday, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment mistakenly uploaded the entire full-length feature film -- all 1:29:46 of it! -- to its YouTube channel. The company meant to upload a red-band trailer for the film, but somehow the whole thing wound up as a free-to-watch video for the entire public to see. It has since been taken down.
According to the Independent, the entirety of Khali the Killer remained up on YouTube for approximately 6 hours and was viewed around 11,000 times before being removed from Sony’s YouTube channel. There is no longer any mention of the film on its Upload page. The snafu was first noticed by CBR. Sony never uploaded the intended trailer in its place. Gizmodo grabbed the follow screenshot before the video was removed from YouTube.
Khali the Killer is a crime drama written and directed by Jon Matthews. It stars Richard Cabral as a retiring hitman who has decided to take on one last job. It has no critic reviews and no audience score yet on Rotten Tomatoes.
The film was uploaded by Sony with the YouTube title “Khali the Killer: Official Red Band Trailer Now on DVD & Digital.” It never had a theatrical release and has been out on DVD since last November. The entire film is available as a rental on YouTube, which may explain how the full version of the movie even found its way on YouTube through official channels to begin with. It’s of course always also possible that the wrong video file was uploaded.
Mashable reached out to Sony Pictures for this story, but the company declined to comment.
