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The Wolf of Wall Street is the most pirated movie of 2014

The Wolf of Wall Street is the most pirated movie of 2014

By Kwame Opam

Source Variety | Via CNBC

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Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street earned an impressive five nominations at the Academy Awards this year on top of the $392 million it brought in at the box office. Already a success by any measure, the film now has the extra distinction of being the most pirated movie of 2014. According to Variety, the Leonardo DiCaprio-helmed biopic was downloaded more than 30 million times over the course of the year.

The competition for the top spot was fairly close among the top 20 most pirated movies, though. According to piracy tracking firm Excipio, Disney's Frozen trailed close behind Wolf with just over 29.9 million downloads, while RoboCop and Gravity take the third and fourth spots on the list, respectively. However, these numbers all blow away previous piracy numbers by a long shot. Last year's most pirated movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, only managed to accrue 8.72 million illegal downloads. Here's the complete list:

  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)

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