 Red Riding Hood, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, was Appian Way's first release in 2011. In the film, which is set in a village haunted by werewolves, a young girl falls in love with an orphan woodcutter, much to her family's displeasure. Earlier in production, the film was titled The Girl with the Red Riding Hood. Although it was poorly received by critics — Mary Pols of Time named it one of the Top 10 Worst Movies of 2011 — it performed modestly at the box-office. The company's final release in 2011 was Detachment, a Tony Kaye-directed drama on high school education system. Three films were produced by the company in 2013; the first was Runner Runner, an ensemble crime thriller, which The Guardian's Xan Brooks described as "a lazy, trashy film that barely goes through the motions". The thriller Out of the Furnace, the company's second release, was also negatively received by critics and was a box office bomb. Scorsese directed the company's final film in 2013 — The Wolf of Wall Street, a biopic on the life of Jordan Belfort (DiCaprio), a New York stockbroker who runs a firm that engages in securities fraud and money laundering on Wall Street in the 1990s. The screenplay was adapted by Terence Winter from Belfort's memoir of the same name. The film was banned in Kenya, Malaysia and Nepal for its controversial depiction of events, explicit sexual content, profanity, and hard drug use. Nonetheless, it was a major commercial success and it went on to be the 17th-highest-grossing film of 2013. According to copyright infringement tracking site Excipio, the film was the most widely infringed of 2014, as it was downloaded illegally over 30 million times via torrent sites. The film was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, although it failed to win in any category.
