• Australian feature film the fifth most-pirated movie of 2015
Hollywood entertainment trade magazine Variety has reported on the most-pirated movies of the year.
The list comes from piracy tracking firm Excipio, which monitored activity from the beginning of 2015 through until December 25.
Read more details here.
The list includes some films actually released in 2014 which did big business in illegal downloads in 2015, including the most-pirated release – Interstellar.
The long-awaited Mad Max: Fury Road attracted the pirates too, coming in at #5 on the list with over 36 million illegal downloads.
The top 10 list ranked by number of downloads is:
1. 46,762,310 Interstellar (2014)
2. 44,794,877 Furious 7 (2015)
3. 41,594,159 Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
4. 36,881,763 Jurassic World (2015)
5. 36,443,244 Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
6. 33,953,737 American Sniper (2014)
7. 32,126,827 Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
8. 31,574,872 The Hobbit: Battle Of The Five Armys (2014)
9. 31,001,480 Terminator: Genesis (2015)
10. 30,922,987 The Secret Service (2014)
Source: Excipio via Variety