Marvel Studios is intensifying its efforts to find out who is responsible for leaking spoilers of the movie “Captain America: Brave New World.” They have issued a legal summons to Instagram to uncover the person running the account that shared the leaked footage.
According to documents published by the news site Torrent Freak , Marvel’s vice-president of Global Security & Content Protection has issued a legal summons to Instagram to expose the identity of the account owner.
Matthew Slatoff has asked for the person’s identity in order to “identify an alleged infringer (or infringers) using the handle @canwegetsometoast who published a copyrighted image from an upcoming Marvel Studios motion picture, ‘Captain America: Brave New World,’ without authorization.”
The movie studio hasn’t always responded to leaks with such seriousness, and the CanWeGetSomeToast account regularly shares leaks from Marvel and non-Marvel films on Instagram and Twitter without much reaction.
In 2023, Marvel took action after a script for “Ant-Man and Wasp: Quantumania” was leaked on Reddit. The studio’s MVL Film Finance LLC submitted a copyright infringement notice to Google, and the script was promptly deleted.
Earlier this month characters from the newest “Captain America” installment were revealed when McDonald’s introduced toys from the film in its Happy Meals. The five characters available in the meals are Captain America, a new Falcon, Diamondback, Ruth, and Red Hulk.
The toys likely hit the shelves so far ahead of the film due to a combination of pandemic and strike-related delays. It was originally set to be released in theaters on May 3 of this year, but has been postponed twice. It’s now opening Valentine’s Day 2025, but the McDonald’s toy release schedule was too far gone.
The information was first posted on Instagram on April 17 by a Brazilian fast food fan account. They have since appeared in domestic McDonald’s Happy Meals.
