The report notes that there may be an error in the ranking of the 2014 Kellan Lutz–starring film The Legend of Hercules as well, which comes in at No. Excipio compiled the data by tracking the number of films that were downloaded legally and legally. MGM's 2014 remake of RoboCop bears the exact same name as the 1987 original that spawned it-so both films, combined, comprise nearly 30 million downloads, but it's unclear whether one bore more weight than the other. The third slot, which went to RoboCop exposes a flaw with the data assembled by piracy-tracking firm Excipio. Martin Scorsese's opus-length The Wolf of Wall Street led the list with over 30 million downloads in 2014, despite being released the year before, followed closely by the popular animated flick Frozen with 29.9 million downloads, according to Variety. The top 20 most popular films were together downloaded over 483 million times. Many viewers aren't even going the legal route, as evidenced by Variety's list of the most pirated films list of 2014. The same Nielsen survey found that 87 percent of 12-to-24 year-olds say they stream movies, and 36 percent of those said they stream more videos than they did just a year ago.

With the accessibility of digital streaming, it seems that many viewers are choosing to stay in and watch movies. Overall box office sales went down by 4 percent this year compared with 2013, according to The New York Times's David Carr.

A Nielsen report from earlier this month reveals that attendance at movie theaters dropped 15 percent in the first nine months of 2014 for 12-to-24-year-olds, once the largest movie-going demographic. People are going to movie theaters less and less these days. Have dinner-and-a-movie date nights devolved into takeout-and-laptop lie-ins? Possibly, judging from this year's numbers on movie theater attendance and digital streaming (both legal and illegal).

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