![]() ![]() I can only imagine the marketing-department meetings, thick with copy editors and grammarians fighting valiantly to parse their titles. 51 or a reboot of an earlier film, as in both Footloose (2011) and Drive (2011), Nos. 32 on the 2011 list or an English-language remake, as in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), No. Then there's the rash of parentheses, which can indicate a rerelease, as in The Lion King (in 3-D), No. 18, the finger-cramping Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, employing a dash and a colon and no number, though it is the fourth in a franchise, and a reboot of a TV series. 14, we find X-Men: First Class, a prequel to a comic book film trio that uses both a hyphen and a colon and, at No. Or, in other words: a sequel that uses a numeral a quintquel that spells out its number in its title a quadquel that omits all numbers but employs a colon a sequel denoted by a Roman numeral a triquel that's the first part of an adaptation of book three in a trio a quadquel that opts only for a colon and the seventh film from the sixth novel of a series that, until the final book was split into two movies, eschewed all numerals, numbers and punctuation marks in favour of a conjunction (i.e., Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, et al.).Īre you still with me? I hope so, because the craziness doesn't end there. The top seven films at the domestic box office in the year just ended, in ascending order, are Cars 2 Fast Five Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides The Hangover Part II The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the champ with a $381-million (U.S.) gross. (It's also known as the sequel to Sequelitis.) It's what happens when the movie theatres are riddled with multipart series, remakes and franchise reboots, necessitating title punctuation that would have confounded Strunk and White. It's the dizzying condition that afflicts anyone looking at a list of the highest-grossing films of 2011 in the United States and Canada. ![]()
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