Thor is the Most Tweeted Movie of 2011
Posted 12.11.11 by BrentJS
Marvel Studios' Thor managed to knock out its comic book-based movie competition — Green Lantern, Cowboys and Aliens, X-Men: First Class and Captain America: The First Avenger — at the box office this summer, but it failed to beat Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as the movie of the summer and is only eighth highest grossing movie of the year. However, according to Twitter's 2011 Year in Review, Thor conquered all challengers to take the "Hot Topics" title of most tweeted movie of the year. Title star Chris Hemsworth failed to crack the top ten list of most tweeted actors of 2011, but the actress who played his love interest in Thor, Natalie Portman, came in at #5.
Here are the movies, actors and actresses that made Twitter's "Hot Topics" list for 2011:
MOVIES
1. Thor
2. The Dark Knight Rises
3. X-Men: First Class
4. Fast Five
5. The Green Hornet
ACTORS
1. Charlie Sheen
2. Macauley Culkin
3. Ryan Dunn
4. Ricky Gervais
5. Pete Postlethwaite
ACTRESSES
1. Elizabeth Taylor
2. Mila Kunis
3. Anne Hathaway
4. name of link
5. Natalie Portman
To see the rest of the list, which includes categories for Television, Music, Tech and more, check out Twitter's "Hot Topics" list.
Thor is based on the character created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby that first appeared in Journey into Mystery #83 in August 1962. It was directed by Academy Award-nominated director Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet) from a script by Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, Don Payne, Mark Protosevich and J. Michael Straczynski. The cast includes Tom Hiddleston as Thor's step-brother and nemesis, Loki; Ray Stevenson, Tadanobu Asano and Joshua Dallas as "The Warriors Three," Volstagg, Hogun and Fandral; Rene Russo as Thor's mother, Frigga; Kat Dennings as Jane Foster's assistant, Darcy; Clark Gregg as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson; and Academy Award-winner Sir Anthony Hopkins as Thor's father, Odin.