Despite Transformers One‘s massive critical and audience reception, the film’s box-office woes draw heavily from its popularity on illegal streaming services and download sites.
Torrent Freak‘s estimates revealed that Transformers One, distributed by Paramount Pictures, was the most torrented movie of the week ending Oct. 28, 2024. The film received its wide U.S. theatrical release on Sep. 20, 2024, and grossed $124.3 million worldwide (via Box Office Mojo). On the piracy ranking, Transformers One was followed by Alien: Romulus, Venom: The Last Dance, Deadpool & Wolverine, The Wild Robot, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Terrifier 3, Inside Out 2, Canary Black and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Torrent Freak states that its estimated figures derive from publicly available torrent download statistics.
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Transformers One Is Ranked the Top-Pirated Movie of the Week
CBR’s review of Transformers One dubbed the animated film “the best Transformers movie in years.” However, despite its critical acclaim, rated an impressive 98% and 89% on Rotten Tomatoes by audiences and critics respectively, this has failed to translate to the box office. Its $124.3 million return against a reported $75 million budget overwhelmingly points to a steep box office loss. Transformers One‘s ranking as the top torrented film this week will undoubtedly also be on Paramount’s mind as a core member of the anti-piracy organization ACE, which has clamped down on numerous piracy websites over the past years. Fmovies, one of the world’s largest piracy streaming sites ever, vanished this June, as did Aniwatch three months prior — formerly the world’s biggest anime piracy streaming site.
Transformers One is still playing in theaters. Paramount officially describes the film: “TRANSFORMERS ONE is the untold origin story of OPTIMUS PRIME and MEGATRON, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever. In the first-ever fully CG-animated TRANSFORMERS movie, TRANSFORMERS ONE features a star-studded voice cast, including Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi with Laurence Fishburne, and Jon Hamm.”
Source: Torrent Freak
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