☝️ Pop vs. Box 👇 '76 - '13

Card 36

Key

B - box office rank for year
P - current popular rank for year
🎖️- first place rank for year
🗽 - most votes for year
🏆 - pop winner top list
🤔 - most obscure

note - all movies based or loosely based on Mr. King's novels or short stories. Sequels of the Children of the Corn series not included in scoring.

additional - Mr. King successfully sued to have is name removed from the film The Lawnmower Man (92) due to the difference in story lines.

76 Carrie B17 P4
80 The Shining 🎖️🏆 B14 P1
82 Creepshow B40 P22
83 Cujo B34 P18
83 The Dead Zone B35 P15
83 Christine 🏆 B56 P10
84 Children of the Corn B64 P30
84 Firestarter B63 P45
85 Cat's Eye P95 P87
85 Silver Bullet B70 P62
86 Maximum Overdrive B58 P44
86 Stand by Me B15 P3
87 Creepshow 2 B77 P44
87 The Running Man B28 P26
89 Pet Sematary B23 P27
90 Tales from the Darkside B68 P80
90 Graveyard Shift B89 P156
90 Misery B19 P14
92 The Lawnmower Man B42 P50
93 The Dark Half - no data
93 Needful Things B86 P105
94 The Shawshank Redemption 🎖️🗽B51 P1
95 The Mangler🤔 B189 P166
95 Dolores Claiborne B69 P84
96 Thinner B99 P82
97 The Night Flyer - no data
98 Apt Pupil B131 P110
99 The Green Mile B12 P7
01 Hearts in Atlantis B92 P130
03 Julie Ganapathi - no data
03 Dreamcatcher B87 P81
04 Secret Window B67 P56
07 1408 B38 P85
07 The Mist B93 P22
09 Dolan's Cadillac - no data
13 Carrie B81 P61

Movies scored - 32
Box sum - 2002
Pop sum - 1734

Box avg rank - 62.56
Pop avg rank - 54.19

Box avg - Pop avg = +8.37

Box top 20 - 😲😲😲😲😲
Pop top 20 - 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲

Best box - The Green Mile (12)
Worst box - The Mangler (189)
Best pop - The Shining (1),The Shawshank Redemption (1)
Worst pop - The Mangler (166)

Pop Gainer - The Mist (+71)
Pop Loser - Graveyard Shift (-67)

B+P

Best - The Shining (15)
Worst - The Mangler (355)

Pop vs Box awards

🎖️🎖️
🗽🏆🏆

It is natural for popular rankings to be higher due to the influx of art house, international and straight to video releases. Popular rankings are taken from IMDb and are in fluid. Most box office data is taken from The Numbers website (domestic)

Scoring (b-p)

10+ = excellent
9 to -9 = good
-10 to -29 = avg
-30 to -49 = poor
-50 and below = very poor

Example

Hearts in Atlantis B92 P130 = -38 (poor)

Tally

Excellent (10pts each) = 17
Good (5pts each) = 9
Average (0pts each) = 3
Poor (-5pts each) = 2
Very poor (-10pts each) = 1
Pop top 20 bonus (5pts each) = 9

+170+45-10-10+45

Mr. King's pop/box library score:

240