Monday, December 29, 2014

Today In....

Weekend B.O. and Microsoft Departures

....Movies

- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies grabbed #1 at the box office again this week with $41.4M. Unbroken was only $10M behind with $31.7M for the three day and $47.3M since Christmas. Into the Woods snagged #3 with a $31M three day and $46.1M since Christmas. The last two in the top five were: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, $20.6M and Annie, $16.6M.

-  Pirating is a problem for both the movie and television industry. This years Top 10 most pirated movies have been revealed. The list follows:

1. “The Wolf of Wall Street”: 30.035 million (Paramount, Dec. 25, 2013)
2. “Frozen”: 29.919 million (Disney, Nov. 27, 2013)
3. “RoboCop”*: 29.879 million (MGM, Feb. 12, 2014; and Orion, July 17, 1987)
4. “Gravity”: 29.357 million (Warner Bros., Oct. 4, 2013)
5. “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”: 27.627 million (Warner Bros., Dec. 13, 2013)
6. “Thor: The Dark World”: 25.749 million (Disney/Marvel, Nov. 8, 2013)
7. “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”: 25.628 million (Disney/Marvel, April 4, 2014)
8. “The Legend of Hercules”: 25.137 million (Summit, Jan. 10, 2014)
9. “X-Men: Days of Future Past”: 24.380 million (20th Century Fox, May 23, 2014)
10. “12 Years a Slave”: 23.653 million (Fox Searchlight, Oct. 18, 2013)


....Television

- To continued with the theme of pirating, Game of Thrones, for the third in a row, was the most pirated T.V show of 2014. Most surprising entry on the list? Suits coming in at #9. The whole list follows:

1. "Game of Thrones"
2. "The Walking Dead"
3. "The Big Bang Theory"
4. "How I Met Your Mother"
5. "Gotham"
6. "Arrow"
7. "Grey's Anatomy"
8. "Vikings"
9. "Suits"
10. "South Park"


....Video Games

Xbox Director of Development and founder of Xbox Live and XNA, Boyd Multerer, has announced that he will be leaving Microsoft. He said he wanted to "do something new." He founded the development team for Xbox Live that launched in November, 2002. He was also instrumental to the design of the Xbox One’s core architecture.

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