There are quite a few differences between popularity at the box office and on BitTorrent. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and 2012 are ranked 2nd and 4th based on their worldwide grosses but didn’t make it into the top 10 list of most swapped movies.
On the contrary, RocknRolla is the third most pirated movie on BitTorrent this year, but with a minuscule worldwide revenue of $25 million it was ranked just 168th at the box office in 2008 when the movie came out. Part of the success of RocknRolla is that it was released by the infamous uploader aXXo whose releases are always guaranteed to have at least a few million downloads.
Taken from TorrentFreak
rank movie – downloads = worldwide grosses
- Star Trek – 10,960,000 = $385,459,120
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – 10,600,000 = $834,969,807
- RocknRolla – 9,430,000 = $25,728,089
- The Hangover – 9,180,000 = $459,422,869
- Twilight – 8,720,000 = $384,997,808
- District 9 – 8,280,000 = $204,570,836
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – 7,930,000 = $929,359,401
- State of Play – 7,440,000 = $87,784,194
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine – 7,200,000 = $373,062,569
- Knowing – 6,930,000 = $183,260,464
