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LOGOLOG
a weblog of wordplay by Eric Harshbarger
Box Office Pangrammacy, Yet Again
As several past posts to this blog indicate, I like to keep an eye on weekend U.S. box office returns of movies in theaters -- for a very specific reason: I note whenever the Top-N films (for small N-values) create a pangrammic list. This past weekend (22-24 September 2023) saw the second smallest N-value for this phenomenon. Here are the Top-11 movies at the U.S. box office:
- THE NUN II
- EXPEND4BLES
- A HAUNTING IN VENICE
- THE EQUALIZER 3
- BARBIE
- MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 3
- IT LIVES INSIDE
- DUMB MONEY
- BLUE BEETLE
- OPPENHEIMER
- TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM
All letters of the alphabet, A through Z, appear in that list.
A few interesting notes about this weekend's result:
- The letter J was the hardest letter to get, appearing in the eleventh title. As one would expect, J is, along with Q, X, and Z, generally one of the most truant letters when considering pangrammacy.
- Amazingly, the common letter O is also quite rare in this list, not appearing until the eighth title.
- Referring to the actual revenues of these movies (say, from this website) one will note that the difference in revenue between Oppenheimer and the TMNT:MM film was only $702 (!). Had those two films switched ranking, we would have had a Top-10 pangrammic list.
And that Top-10 pangrammacy has only ever happened once before in the modern box office era. I wrote about that back in 2014. Amazingly (but not entirely coincidentally, I suppose) that occurrence also happen in late September of the year, and two of films included the original Equalizer and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies.
Here is how this past weekend's record stands up to past ones:
-- Eric
[25 September 2023]
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