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Christopher Nolan’s space adventure ‘Interstellar’ has been named the most pirated movie of 2015, with 46m illegal downloads, putting it at the head of a chart no Hollywood studio wants to top. According to figures from piracy tracking firm Excipio, the 2014 release was just ahead of action sequel ‘Fast & Furious 7’, with 44m downloads and superhero sequel ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’, with 41m downloads.

Other films to make the top five include the year’s biggest blockbuster, ‘Jurassic World’, in fourth place with 36.8m downloads, and ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, in fifth place with 36.4m downloads. Meanwhile, ‘Game Of Thrones’ topped the TV offerings once again for a fourth year in a row with ‘The Walking Dead’ coming in behind.’ ‘Game of Thrones’ episodes were downloaded 14.4 million times on BitTorrent, ‘The Walking Dead’ came in second with 6.9 million downloads and ‘The Big Bang Theory’ was third with 4.4 million.

Top 10 most-pirated movies

• Interstellar (46.7 million)
• Furious 7 (44.7 million)
• Avengers: Age of Ultron (41.6 million)
• Jurassic World (36.8 million)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (36.4 million)
• American Sniper (33.9 million)
• Fifty Shades of Grey (32.5 million)
• The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies (31.5 million)
• Terminator: Genisys (31.0 million)
• Kingsman: The Secret Service (30.9 million)

Top 10 most-pirated TV shows

• Game of Thrones (14.4 million)
• The Walking Dead (6.9 million)
• The Big Bang Theory(4.4 million)
• Arrow (3.9 million)
• The Flash (3.6 million)
• Mr. Robot (3.5 million)
• Vikings (3.3 million)
• Supergirl (3.0 million)
• The Blacklist (2.9 million)
• Suits (2.6 million)