Fast and the Furious 6 tops Facebook’s films of 2013

To compile the list, Expion analysed the Facebook pages of popular films from 1 January to 5 December 2013 to discover which page, and in turn which film, had the most engaged Facebook fans. The Fast and the Furious 6 star Paul Walker, pictured left opposite co-star Vin Diesel, featured in two of the top three posts
It may not have achieved the box office success of other films this year, but The Fast and the Furious 6 certainly won over fans on Facebook.

According to research from social monitoring firm Expion, the film, starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, received more than 42.4 million fan interactions on the social networking site.
This was more than double that of second place film The Hunger Games.

Social monitoring firm Expion has ranked the top 10 movies of last year based on the number of comments, likes and statuses each one received. The Fast and the Furious 6 received 42.4million fan interactions, more than double that of second place film The Hunger Games

The least talked about film in the top 10 was Alfonso Cuaron's space thriller Gravity, which received a relatively measly 482,788 interactions.
To compile the list, Expion analysed the Facebook pages of popular films from 1 January to 5 December 2013 to discover which page, and in turn which film, had the most engaged Facebook fans. 
By analysing the number of comments, likes and shares, Expion was able to create the number of Fan Actions each film received.
It also looked at the most popular characters from these films and pitted the lead roles against each other.

The Fast the Furious' Dominic Toretto, played by Vin Diesel, was 83% more popular than Katniss Everdeen, from The Hunger Games played by Jennifer Lawrence. Iron Man's Pepper Potts, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, received 51,700 fan interactions, compared to Lois Lane, played by Amy Adams, who received just 6,800

The Fast the Furious' Dominic Toretto, played by Vin Diesel, was 83 per cent more popular than Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist from The Hunger Games played by Jennifer Lawrence.
Iron Man's Pepper Potts, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, received 51,700 fan interactions, compared to Lois Lane in Man of Steel, played by Amy Adams, who received just 6,800.
The most popular animated characters were the minions from Despicable Me 2, which were 95 per cent more popular than Monster University's Mike Wazowski.
According to the report, fans were most engaged on Sundays, and least engaged on Fridays. 
Two of the top three posts of the year featured Paul Walker, who was killed in a car crash in November.
These included a birthday post, which received 879,000 fan interactions, and a memorial post that received 2.2million.

The most popular animated characters were the minions from Despicable Me 2, which were 95 per cent more popular than Monster University's Mike Wazowski

 comment on this article