These are the year's most pirated movies and TV shows

The top 10 most pirated movies of 2014 included The Wolf of Wall Street, Frozen and Gravity as well as the latest installments of The Hobbit, Thor and Captain America series, says Variety drawing from information provided by the research firm Excipio. The most pirated television shows were, unsurprisingly, Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, reports Torrent Freak.

Last week The Interview was released online and was only able to bring in $15 million. The buddy assassination comedy was, by and large, a disappointment for Sony Pictures. Our own review makes it clear that the movie's lack of any redeeming values certainly played against it, but nevertheless the paltry showing isn't likely to get movie executives excited about bringing first-run feature films out online any time soon.

Much of the reason for their hesitation is piracy. Even with The Interview widely available for a fee online, it was still pirated 750,000 times in the first 20 hours after it was released. And all told, it was a big, big year for piracy of both movies and television.

The top 20 most pirated movies of 2014 are listed below, followed closely by the top 10 television series.

Most pirated movies of 2014

1. The Wolf of Wall Street: 30.035 million

2. Frozen: 29.919 million

3. RoboCop (including 1987 and 2014 versions): 29.879 million

4. Gravity: 29.357 million

5. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: 27.627 million

6. Thor: The Dark World: 25.749 million

7. Captain America: The Winter Soldier: 25.628 million

8. The Legend of Hercules: 25.137 million

9. X-Men: Days of Future Past: 24.380 million

10. 12 Years a Slave: 23.653 million

11. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: 23.543 million

12. American Hustle: 23.143 million

13. 300: Rise of an Empire: 23.096 million

14. Transformers: Age of Extinction: 21.65 million

15. Godzilla: 20.956 million

16. Noah: 20.334 million

17. Divergent: 20.312 million

18. Edge of Tomorrow: 20.299 million

19. Captain Phillips: 19.817 million

20. Lone Survivor: 19.130 million

Most pirated television series of 2014

1. Game of Thrones: 8.1 million

2. The Walking Dead: 4.8 million

3. The Big Bang Theory: 3.9 million

4. How I Met Your Mother: 3.5 million

5. Gotham: 3.2 million

6. Arrow: 2.9 million

7. Grey's Anatomy: 2.8 million

8. Vikings: 2.7 million

9. Suits: 2.5 million

10. South Park: 2.4 million