Fast Five, the fifth instalment in the ever-healthy action franchise, was the most pirated movie of 2011 on BitTorrent, according to the LA Times.

The film was apparently downloaded some 9.3 million times, though the average number of downloads of the top 10 movies was lower than the equivalent list last year.

While box-office behemoths occupy the top 3 places (The Hangover Part II and Thor sit in spots 2 & 3 respectively), the remainder of the list is quite different to the top-grossing films.

This year's Twilight and Transformers films didn't make the top 10 most popular downloads, while Source Code, I Am Number Four and Sucker Punch (none of which broke the top 50 in terms of US grosses) did.

It's possibly most sad to see Source Code on the list - a smart, interesting, modestly budgeted sci-fi, the type of which we don't see enough of in cinemas.

If those illegal downloads could be converted to purchased tickets, we'd have a better chance of this kind of film getting made more often, instead of the countless sequels, remakes and reboots we're swamped with.

Here's the full list of the 10 most pirated movies (and the number of times they were downloaded):

1. Fast Five: 9.3 million
2. The Hangover Part II: 8.8 million
3. Thor: 8.3 million
4. Source Code: 7.9 million
5. I Am Number Four: 7.7 million
6. Sucker Punch: 7.2 million
7. 127 Hours: 6.9 million
8. Rango: 6.5 million
9. The King's Speech: 6.3 million
10. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2: 6 million Source: www.totalfilm.com

Fast And Furious 5 speeds to box office victory [1st May 2011 23:38:55]

Fast And Furious 5 (or Fast Five) well and truly took the lead at the US box office this weekend.

Opening with an impressive $83m, the high octane car chase/heist movie also managed to break the record for the biggest opening in the month of April ever. Not bad for a fourth sequel.

Which should please the film's producers, who've already been taking about taking the franchise in a less car-heavy and more heist-flavoured direction with future instalments.

The fivequel's success is most clear when you compare its numbers to the rest of the week's box office big hitters, with Rio in number two with a tiny-in-comparison taking of $14.4m. In third was Madea's Big Happy Family ($10m), fourth Water For Elephants ($9.1m) and Prom in fifth with $5m.

Other sequel Hoodwinked Too! came off considerably worse, opening with a miserable $4.1m in sixth place.

Meanwhile, Soul Surfer cruised on into seventh ($3.3m), Insidious continued to scare the bejeesus out of people in eighth ($2.6m), Hop took $2.5m in ninth and Source Code continued a slow and steady run in tenth with $2.5m. Source: www.totalfilm.com