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Matt’s Worst 5 Films of 2009
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I’m not a negative person, but it’s come to my attention that what I intend as mockery is interpreted as bitter disdain. I just think a lot of things are funny and this is a job you can’t take too seriously. Sure, there are events that pissed me off this year like Roger Friedman happily bootlegging X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but I understand I’m not writing about the atrocities in Darfur or the meltdown of the U.S. economy. I write about movies and I’m very happy to do so.
Of the five films I think were the “worst” of 2005, all of them were screened for critics. If a film was deemed too terrible to give the public a heads-up, then I think that speaks for itself (although G.I. Joe proved an exception as the majority of my friends told me it was surprisingly enjoyable). However,
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Yahoo Unveils the Top Ten Most-Viewed Trailers of 2009
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Yahoo did this last year (get the list here) and it makes for a pretty good look back as well as shows just how powerful the Internet has become in terms of movie promotion.
Last year's #1 most viewed trailer was The Dark Knight, which is none-too-surprising. Again, this year's films aren't exactly all that surprising, but their places on the list may be. I laughed a little when I saw #8 and the trailer that took the #1 slot this year may surprise a few folks. According to Yahoo, the two most popular videos each nabbed over 20 million views. Can you guess which ones they were?
With that question in mind, all of the trailers on Yahoo's list have been included across the next four pages... Enjoy!
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Your Favorite Film of 2009?
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The end of December always brings about a flurry of end-of-the-year lists. From the top ten films of the year to the ten worst films of the year, chances are you’ve already combed through a list or several. I’ll be doling out my list of favorite movies later this week, but in the meantime we thought it’d be fun to ask you which film is your favorite of 2009.
Of course, it all depends on what you like the most. Are you a person who digs big effects-heavy blockbusters like Avatar, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Star Trek, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Terminator: Salvation or Watchmen? Or are you someone who likes quieter dramas like Up in the Air, An Education, Precious, Invictus or A Serious Man? Then again, maybe you’re into the explosive think-pieces like...
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Yahoo! Movies Lists the 10 Most-Watched Trailers of 2009
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Yahoo! Movies has listed the top 10 most streamed trailers from their site in the past year. They’re all blockbuster movies except for one. You’ll know which one it is and after you see the trailer, you should know that the movie is available on Netflix “Watch Instantly” and you should add it to your queue.
But since it’s mostly blockbuster movies, there aren’t a lot of surprises. Of course, sometimes Yahoo! Movies gets an exclusive trailer and sometimes Apple.com gets it. Since they’re tracking video streaming numbers, their list may not match Apple’s (if Apple ever released a list, which I doubt they will). Also, keep in mind that this isn’t a list of the year’s best trailer, just the ones that got the most hits. If you want a countdown of the best trailers, come back later today when I’ll list my top five.
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'Twilightn' one of year's top five most illegally downloaded movies
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Unfortunately, with regard to Twilight it's not always good news.
Among the top five most pirated movies of the year is Twilight, according to the BBC. The film is joined by Star Trek, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, The Hangover, and RocknRolla on that list. Other films which were heavily pirated this year included Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and District 9.
While, from the looks of this list (and a scan of their situation in this year's box office), pirating did not hinder a strong showing theater sales, it's still not the most settling news that illegal downloading is one of the lists which the saga tops this year. Though, it does spe .
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Top 25 Movies of 2009: Honorable Mentions and Movies #21 - 25
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Top 25 Movies of 2009
Introduction, Honorable Mentions and Movies #21 - 25
What's your overall opinion of the movies of 2009? I ask because moving into December I would have called it a downer year, and if you base your opinion of a year's worth of movies on the blockbusters of the year you may be a bit mixed. While films such as Star Trek, District 9 and Avatar found fans all around the world, films such as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Terminator Salvation, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, Angels and Demons and Watchmen were met with mixed-to-highly-negative reviews from critics and filmgoers alike. A lot of money was made, but I think we all know money doesn't always translate to quality.
There were some out of the blue surprises such as The Hangover and Paranormal Activity and Pixar again impressed us all with Up. Personally, it's the smaller to mid-level films
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- Brad Brevet
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Monday Morning Box Office Report: Avatar Solves Sherlock Holmes
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Movies were big business this Christmas -- in fact, the biggest they've ever been! This past weekend was the highest grossing weekend ever in the history of cinema, thanks to the three-way combination of Avatar, Sherlock Holmes and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, all of which accounted for over $190 million. James Cameron's Avatar did come out on top, however, dropping just 3% from its opening weekend and proving that positive reviews and strong word of mouth can go a long way. It's Complicated and Up in the Air rounded out the Top 5. With no major releases planned for next weekend, you can expect all of these films to bank even more cash as we ring in the New Year. Could Avatar actually challenge Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for the top grossing movie of 2009? If it can manage another $75 million weekend, I think it would be a strong possibility!
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Utah man fired from job for calling ‘Avatar’ fan an “Avatard”
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While director James Cameron’s latest big-budget film, Avatar, astonishes audiences with a torrid of stunning visual effects, the movie has also grown a surprisingly large and rabid fan-base. Just ask Anthony Hansen, a Salt Lake City-based customer service representative who works for Stencil Tech, or at least he used to until he was fired from the company for expressing his “anti-Avatar” views of the movie.
One of the most highly anticipated films of the second half of the decade, Avatar has been touted as the special effects event that would change cinema forever. The movie centers on Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic Marine who takes a job on the alien world of Pandora in order to operate his dead brother’s avatar, a lab-grown “native” fused with his brother’s DNA to that of a Na’vi, the indigenous humanoid population on Pandora. Hired by a non-governmental mining operation on the planet,
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Our 20 Most Anticipated Movies Of 2010
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As we come to the end of 2009, it’s time to look forward and put together our list of our most anticipated movies of 2010.
Last year could have been worse – 5 of our 10 most anticipated movies of 2009 turned out to live up to our expectations (including Watchmen, Up, and Star Trek), while the other five ranged from mediocre (Public Enemies) to downright disappointing (Terminator Salvation, Wolverine, Transformers 2). Of course “most anticipated” does not necessarily mean “movies we think are going to be awesome” – it’s “movies we hope are going to be awesome.”
This year the task was made a lot easier thanks to our senior editor Kofi Outlaw putting together Screen Rant’s 2010 movie preview, giving us a one-stop list from which to gather the biggies. While last year was a group effort, this year I’ve decided to pull rank and come up with the list myself, with
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- Vic Holtreman
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Piracy: The Final Frontier
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Star Trek has found itself at the top of one of Hollywood's least-desirable year-end lists, emerging as the most pirated film of 2009. With almost 11 million illegal downloads recorded, J.J. Abrams's epic narrowly edged Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (10.6 million) for the No. 1 slot, followed by RocknRolla (seriously), The Hangover and Twilight. Somewhat surprisingly, the infamously leaked X-Men Origins: Wolverine hovered in ninth place below even the turgid reporter drama State of Play. Among the lessons: You know newspapers are doomed when people won't even pay for movies about journalism. [Torrent Freak via Nyt]
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"Star Trek" Tops 2009's Piracy List
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Not unsurprisingly, "Star Trek" topped the list of the most pirated movies of 2009 according to Torrent Freak. Bootlegs of J.J. Abrams' sci-fi epic pulled in 10.96 million downloads this year, easily beating last year's winner "The Dark Knight" with 7 million downloads.
Some expected blockbusters saw placings in the Top Ten like this year's "Harry Potter" and "Transformers" sequels, "The Hangover" and "Twilight". It was the odd ones out though that surprised.
Chief among them was third place winner "RocknRolla", Guy Ritchie's 2008 British gangster drama/comedy that scored a mere $25 million at the worldwide box-office. The film however has since found a strong cult following on DVD, especially outside the Us, and its 9.4 million downloads figure has surprised quite a few.
Less unusual but still surprising was Russell Crowe thriller "State of Play" at #8 with 7.4 million downloads. The film only did mediocre box-office ($87.8m globally) but the high download rate
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Star Trek Is the Most Pirated Film of 2009; Zoe Saldana Says the Sequel Goes into Pre-Production a Year from Now
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How much did people love J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek? So much that they felt too much ecstasy to leave their computers and see the movie again. However, thanks to the wonder of the Internet, they just pirated the shit out of it and made it 2009’s most pirated film of the year with almost 11 million downloads. THR reports that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was a close second, but down at number nine was X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which at first seems surprising due to the leaked work print a month before the film came out. I would say that it was a matter of demand but Wolverine made $180 million at the box office, but RocknRolla came in third with almost 10 million downloads even thought it only made $26 million at the box office. What does this all mean? It means I need to get out of the speculation biz because I clearly have no clue.
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The Most Pirated Movies of 2009 and Avatar: The Making of the Bootleg
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The above graph is from ChartsBin, showing the top 10 most pirated movies of 2009. The list, which was collected by Torrent Freak from several sources, is pretty odd. It's not surprising that big Hollywood blockbusters like Star Trek and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen topped the list, but who would have thought that a film like Guy Ritchie's Rocknrolla would end up at #3?
Also surprising is that X-Men Origins: Wolverine ended up at at the bottom of the list, at #9, even though a workprint of the film infamously hit the internet a month before the theatrical release. Alex Proyas' Knowing places #10, which is probably a good example of a movie that people had an interest in seeing (especially after some of the Wtf buzz) but weren't willing to pay for.
How do films end up on the internet? Free Love Forum has posted a faux behind the scenes
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Paramount's 'Star Trek' Wins the Award No Film Wanted
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The Hollywood Reporter brings word via data obtained by TorrentFreak that Paramount's Star Trek was the most pirated film of 2009. The film went on to make $385 million at the worldwide box-office and is currently the #6 domestic earner for 2009 with Avatar poised to take it over by next Friday. So some may say pirating didn't really effect it that much. However, there's a curious statistic I noticed earlier this year that may paint a different picture.
Terminator Salvation made $125 million domestically, $132 million less than Star Trek. However, if you compare their international numbers things quickly even out. Worldwide, Star Trek made $385 million while Terminator Salvation cut the domestic gap dramatically by pulling in $246 million for a total of $372 million worldwide. Even more curious is the fact Terminator Salvation doesn't even show up on TorrentFreak's numbers.
The top ten is as follows. (All numbers are estimates)
Star Trek - 10.9m downloads ($385.4m
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Star Trek Is The Most Pirated Film Of The Year
27 December 2009 3:44 PM, PST
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Forget all the best and worst lists of the year; how about the most pirated film of the year? Even after the whole meltdown over the X-Men Origins: Wolverine leak in April, according to THR, the film only took the #9 spot on the list with 7.2 million estimated downloads.
Soaring above and beyond the lot to the #1 spot is Star Trek with 10.9 million downloads followed by Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen with 10.6 million. The #3 spot belongs to Guy Ritchie.s RocknRolla with 9.4 million downloads and the #4 spot to The Hangover with 9.1. Rounding out the top five is Twilight with 8.7 million downloads.
Is it just me or does RocknRolla seem very out of place on this list? I would have thought all ten spots would belong to big releases. I can see how Twilight could sneak its way onto the charts, but RocknRolla? And what about State of Play? State of Play
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More Photos from Wall Street 2
26 December 2009 11:08 PM, PST
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20th Century Fox recently released another few movie stills from the upcoming film “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps” by director Oliver Stone (World Trade Center, South of the Border) and starring Shia Labeouf (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen), Susan Sarandon, Michael Douglas, Josh Brolin and Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Men).
Synopsis: As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader’s mentor.
Stay tuned to Shockya.com for [...]
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The Top Ten Pirated Films of 2009
26 December 2009 1:13 PM, PST
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The most illegally downloaded film of the year was Star Trek, according to TorrentFreak (and reported by TrekMovie). The film was downloaded 11 million times, while Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was pirated 10.6 million times. Wolverine, which was leaked online well in advance of its release in May, was number nine on the list. Recently, an arrest was made in that case.
Here's the top ten:
1 - Star Trek
2 - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
3 - RocknRolla
4 - The Hangover
5 - Twilight
6 - District 9
7 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
8 - State of Play
9 - X-Men Origins: Wolverine
10- Knowing
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'Star Trek' tops the list of the Most Pirated Movies of 2009
26 December 2009 10:30 AM, PST
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Is it really a shock that the excellent reboot of the "Star Trek" franchise, which has notoriously geeky fans, would have the highest downloads for 2009?
Via TorrentFreak. Checking in at just shy of 11 million downloads was the remake of "Star Trek," starring Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine, followed closely by "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" at 10.6 million downloads. We'd wager those two movies were downloaded to personal computers for very different reasons.
The rest of the Top 5 includes "RocknRolla," "The Hangover" and "Twilight." Hmmm. One of these things is not like the others... one of these things just does not belong. What in the blue hell is "RocknRolla?"
Check out the rest of the Top 10 in our photo gallery. Spoiler alert: The Nicolas Cage vehicle "Knowing" is no. 10. Perhaps if more people had paid to see it, Nic Cage wouldn't be selling all his possessions right now. We do find
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'Star Trek' Leads Most-Pirated List
26 December 2009 6:32 AM, PST
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2009 was a great year for Star Trek, but maybe not such a great year for parent studio Paramount. The J.J. Abrams' reboot found its way onto the top spot of 2009's "most-pirated" list, according to The Hollywood Reporter. With almost 11 million illegal downloads, that placed Trek just a tad higher than the number two film on the list, Paramount's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
You can't count that 11 million as a loss, as that would assume everyone who downloaded it would've bought a ticket, but that's still an impressive (and damaging) number. The average ticket price for a movie in 2009 is $7.18 (source). If you were to apply that price to 11 million downloads, you'd be looking at a box office take in the neighborhood of $79 million dollars. That's huge.
The number three film on the list, Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla, grossed a middling $26 million in its theatrical run, but if
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$10 Billion at the Box Office: When a Record Isn’t Really a Record
26 December 2009 3:13 AM, PST
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Stephen Lang, Sam Worthington in Avatar (Mark Fellman / 20th Century Fox)
Earlier this week, it was announced with much fanfare that despite the painful economic times the movie business is having a record year, with more than $10 billion earned at the Us/Canada box office in 2009. Among the year’s biggest hits were Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and Up. Additionally, hits such as The Blind Side and Avatar will have much of their income tallied only next year, and — if they’re successful — the same will happen with It’s Complicated, Sherlock Holmes, Nine, Up in the Air, and The Lovely Bones.
Now, although $10 billion is an impressive [...]
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