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Remember the big slaughter with theWolverinepiracy stunt ? It stirred quite the debate across the profits between classical respectful consumers vs the modern - day internet consumer with the oddest of excuse for what is known as stealing . But then the movie still made its money . They all make their money no matter what pranks people pull .
Me , in grammatical case you did n’t have it away … I really pay for the products I apply . It ’s the old manner affair to do !
But what of pirated motion-picture show ? Was there a more popular movie to slip thanWolverine ? There for sure was and we have the lean of the top 10 most sea robber movies of the year along with top 10 lists for full domestic corner business office earnings and top DVD sales .
The most pirate movie out there was J.J. Abrams’Star Trek , butt outTransformers : retaliation of the Fallenwith almost 11 million illegal downloads . The third most downloaded film was Guy Ritchie’sRocknRolla .
WithRocknRolla , people wonder if the mere $ 26 million it made could have been more if WB actually marketed it properly or if mass had actually gone to see it instead of steal it . But alas , you know how we here atScreen Rantfeel about the matter .
The clause onTHR esq.makes a great argument about how the process of a movie loss potentially contributes to the operation or else of just releasing everything at the same time to the theatre , videodisk etc .
So what were the top 10 illicitly download movie ?
moving-picture show
Est . Downloads ( Mil )
Worldwide Box Office ( $ Mil )
Star Trek
10.96
385.5
transformer : retaliation of the Fallen
10.60
835.0
RocknRolla
9.43
25.7
The holdover
9.18
459.4
Twilight
8.72
385.0
District 9
8.28
204.6
Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince
7.93
929.4
State of Play
7.44
87.8
ten - Men Origins : Wolverine
7.20
373.0
experience
6.93
183.3
For those who have made a habit out of thieving , they ’ll peddle their argument that the movie still made money .
It ’s an interesting top-10 list , that ’s for certain . And if these picture show were the most lawlessly downloaded , does this portend to a blade new kind of top-10 list we have to take up reporting on ?
So this get me to thinking . How do the illegal downloads add up with licit sales numbers racket ? Is there a tendency in theft that can be applied to lawful act ?
Let ’s take a look and see what we see :
TOP DVD gross revenue
Sales Revenue for 2009 ( $ millions )
1
175.3
2
187.2
3
Madagascar : take to the woods 2 Africa
107.0
4
Up
101.4
5
Bolt
80.9
6
ogre vs. Aliens
73.8
7
60.6
8
Ice Age : Dawn of the Dinosaurs
70.3
9
68.8
10
The Proposal
66.5
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TOP U.S. BOX OFFICE
B.O. for 2009 ( $ in mil )
$ 402
$ 302
$ 293
$ 277
$ 258
The Twilight Saga : New Moon
$ 231
$ 198
$ 197
$ 180
Nox at the Museum : Battle of the Smithsonian
$ 177
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close thought
Star Trekwas the top grossing illegal download , butStar Trekwas seventh and fifth in the DVD and Box Office Charts . Hmm . I ’m starting to think that some of you who say you ’re preview a picture show illegally to know you ’ll grease one’s palms it , are n’t following through on that line . Yet it looks likeTransformersthen contends in the other direction . ThenThe Hangoverlooks to go in either charge . The Hangover was 4th on the illegal download chart , but non - existent in the top-10 of DVD leverage while it was 4th in 2009 of Box Office performers .
That is , if these chart could be equate to each other . Initial review take in me wonder , but scientifically , there ’s so much more that can go into this little comparison that we could go on and on for a while .
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