Site of the Day for Friday, July 8, 2011 The Greatest Movie Franchises of All Time Today's site, from the The Atlantic, offers a nod to popular culture with its round-up of the most successful film franchises. Gentle Subscribers will find a spirited analysis of how the battered but enduring Hollywood tradition of following up a lucrative movie with more of the same, has worked critically and financially over the years. "[W]e used a formula that took both box office totals and critics' scores into account to rank the 50 Greatest Movie Franchises of all time." - from the website Spurred by the release of the current Transformers movie and using a combination of data -- inflation adjusted numbers on movie grosses and critical reaction by score -- the article provides snappy franchise rankings over the past several decades. A nicely designed graphic sequence details the standings of each film, noting how the latest movie in each sequence has performed, in dollars at the box office and in its reception by the critics. Sidle over to the site for an entertaining look at the top grossing movie franchises at: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/the-greatest-movie-franchis es-of-all-time/241272/#slide1 If the above URL wraps in your e-mail client, enter it all on one line in your browser or use this TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/6fvm4le A.M. Holm <amholm@xxxxxxxxxxx> Manage your subscription and view the List archives on the web at: <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/webpage?webpage_id=sotd> and <//www.freelists.org/archives/sotd> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSUBSCRIBE by sending a blank email to sotd-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the Subject field.