With 2015 mere days away, it’s time to reflect upon the cinematic treats gifted to us in 2014. Well, we always do anyways, that in the shape of Best-Of lists that serve as happy reminders of the year’s finest big screen achievements. So, in the spirit of Scrooge and all things miserly and cheap, we can now see the top 20 most pirated films of the year thanks to piracy-tracking firm, Excipio (via Variety). Excipio’s report was drafted with raw data which was collected between January 1st, 2014 and December 23rd, 2014.
Taking a glance over the list, it’s interesting to see Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street sitting pretty at the top. Racking up a staggering 30 million illegal downloads since the beginning of the year, Wolf is followed up by Disney’s Frozen, which notched up an equally-staggering 29.9 million illegal torrents.
As noted by Yahoo! Movies, none of the year’s biggest grossing movies made it onto the list. Guardians Of The Galaxy didn’t even graze the top 20, nor did the year’s fourth-biggest, The LEGO Movie.
For a look at the remainder of the top 20, you can check out the list below.
1. “The Wolf of Wall Street”: 30.035 million (Paramount, Dec. 25, 2013)
2. “Frozen”: 29.919 million (Disney, Nov. 27, 2013)
3. “RoboCop”*: 29.879 million (MGM, Feb. 12, 2014; and Orion, July 17, 1987)
4. “Gravity”: 29.357 million (Warner Bros., Oct. 4, 2013)
5. “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”: 27.627 million (Warner Bros., Dec. 13, 2013)
6. “Thor: The Dark World”: 25.749 million (Disney/Marvel, Nov. 8, 2013)
7. “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”: 25.628 million (Disney/Marvel, April 4, 2014)
8. “The Legend of Hercules”: 25.137 million (Summit, Jan. 10, 2014)
9. “X-Men: Days of Future Past”: 24.380 million (20th Century Fox, May 23, 2014)
10. “12 Years a Slave”: 23.653 million (Fox Searchlight, Oct. 18, 2013)
11. “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”: 23.543 million (Lionsgate, Nov. 22, 2013)
12. “American Hustle”: 23.143 million (Sony/Columbia, Dec. 13, 2013)
13. “300: Rise of an Empire”: 23.096 million (Warner Bros., March 7, 2014)
14. “Transformers: Age of Extinction”: 21.65 million (Paramount, June 27, 2014)
15. “Godzilla”: 20.956 million (Warner Bros., May 16, 2014)
16. “Noah”: 20.334 million (Paramount, March 28, 2014)
17. “Divergent”: 20.312 million (Lionsgate, March 21, 2014)
18. “Edge of Tomorrow”: 20.299 million (Warner Bros., June 6, 2014)
19. “Captain Phillips”: 19.817 million (Sony/Columbia, Oct. 11, 2013)
20. “Lone Survivor”: 19.130 million (Universal, Dec. 25, 2013)
