Austin Powers

Sir Austin Danger Powers, played by Mike Myers, is the title character of a series of parodies of 1960s spy films, primarily James Bond, Derek Flint, Harry Palmer, and Matt Helm, and an increasingly broad range of other elements of popular culture.

Box office

The first film in the series, ' cost $16.5 million, opened in 1997, and made a modest impact, grossing US$53 million in its North American release. The film was not a major success in theatres, but became a hit and cult classic on the home video market, in a trend similar to the Terminator series. In June 1999, the film spawned a sequel, '. This was a huge box office hit, the third highest grossing film of the summer (behind only ' and The Sixth Sense), earning US$206 million in its North American release. In its North American opening weekend it earned US$55 million (then the third biggest debut in box office history), and became the first movie sequel to outearn the original after only its first weekend. The 282% increase in total box office gross from the original to sequel in a feat matched only by s 434% increase. A third film, Austin Powers in Goldmember, was released in 2002 to similar fanfare, earning US$213 million. The Austin Powers trilogy is one of the few movie series in which every sequel has outearned the film that preceded it, along with The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Desperado series. As of 2005, a fourth installment in the series is in limbo.

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1997 - Terminator - 1999 - The Sixth Sense - Austin Powers in Goldmember - 2002 - The Lord of the Rings - Desperado - As of 2005

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