'The Hateful Eight' & 'The Revenant' Screener Leaked! Quentin Tarantino Gets His Hollywood Walk of Fame Star

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"The Hateful Eight" and "The Revenant" are two films slated to hit the theaters come Christmas day, but some people have already had advanced screening of the movies as screener copies were leaked online in some piracy sites.

"Leonardo DiCaprio's 'Revenant' is being plundered by pirates at the fastest rate; having attracted over 739,580 unique IP addresses downloading the film in the last 24 hours," wrote Variety. "Quentin Tarantino's 'Hateful Eight' drew 569,153 IP addresses, while 'Creed,' which is already in theaters, rounded out the top three most popular torrents of the last day with 499,082."

These screener copies are sent for review, particularly during the Oscar awarding season, but some have leaked online in recent years, notes TorrentFreak. And it looks like more films will be released illegally as Hive-CM8, one of the groups behind the leaks, said that they will leak more copies of dozens of other screeners that they were able to obtain.

Meanwhile, the "The Hateful Eight" director Quentin Tarantino just received his Hollywood Walk of Fame Star on Monday, Dec. 21. Samuel L. Jackson made the honor of introducing the film director who received the coveted star in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre.

According to USA Today, Tarantino was surprised about the prime placement of his star (#2,569). "That's really cool, I must have become a big shot," he said in jest for his speech. "This is a real, real groovy day."

Jackson was celebrating his birthday at that time and he was one of Tarantino's friends and film collaborators who were there to give support. He said that Tarantino was just one of a kind because of how he looks at filmmaking in his own special way, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Tarantino's big moment, incidentally, was not marred by any untoward incidents. Back in October, he was criticized by some police organizations for what they deemed was an uncalled for and cop-hating remarks during a New York rally, and promised to get back at him before the premiere of his upcoming movie.

The "Pulp Fiction" director was seen among the Washington Square Park crowd protesting against police brutality. He was holding a blown-up photograph of Justin Smith, an Oklahoma man killed in police custody in 1999 after spitting on cops, and said, "when I see murders, I do not stand by . . . I have to call a murder a murder and I have to call the murderers the murderers," which seemed to have only fired up the crowd, says a New York Post report.

Some of the major police unions in cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, together with the national Fraternal Order of Police, fired back at him and is now calling for a boycott of his films including the "The Hateful Eight."