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Weekend Box Office

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“Austin Powers in Goldmember” shagged a swaggering $76.6 million in its opening weekend and Thursday evening preview. The third installment of the Mike Myers comedy series was the fifth-biggest opener of all time, third-biggest opening of 2002, the biggest July opening and the largest for a comedy.

*--* Movie (Studio) T Screens/ Average Weeks in Release h r e e - d a y g r o s s / T o t a l ( m i l l i o n s ) 1.* “ $73.1 3,613 1 A u s t i n P o w e r s i n G o l d m e m b e r “ (New Line) $ $20,225 7 6 . 6 2 “ $11.1 2,250 3 R o a d t o P e r d i t i o n “ (DreamWorks) $ $4,936 6 5 . 6 3 “ $10.6 3,383 2 S t u a r t L i t t l e 2 “ (Sony/Columbia) $ $3,233 3 4 . 7 4 “ $8.5 3, 542 4 M e n i n B l a c k I I “ (Sony/Columbia) $ $2,383 1 7 3 . 4 5 “ $7.3 2,830 2 K - 1 9 : T h e W i d o w m a k e r “ (Paramount) $ $2,568 2 5 . 0 6 “ $5.3 2,553 1 T h e C o u n t r y B e a r s “ (Disney) $ $2,080 5 . 3 7 “ $4.2 2,209 5 M r . D e e d s “ (Sony/Columbia) $ $1,839 1 1 6 . 2 8 “ $3.5 2,005 3 R e i g n o f F i r e “ (Touchstone) $ $1,730 3 6 . 4 9 “ $3.1 1,365 6 M i n o r i t y R e p o r t “ (Fox) $ $2,289 1 2 3 . 4 10 “ $3.0 569 15 M y B i g F a t G r e e k W e d d i n g “ (IFC Films) $ $5,280 3 5 . 4 *Includes Thursday preview Source: Exhibitor Relations Co

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“Austin” bumped the solemn “Road to Perdition” from the top spot, but the Tom Hanks-Paul Newman drama managed to earn $11.1 million in its third weekend, for a total of $65.6 million.

Disney’s family film “The Country Bears” only managed to place No. 6 with $5.3 million for a per-theater average of $2,080.

Among limited-release films, the acclaimed Robert Evans documentary “The Kid Stays in the Picture” took in $80,087 on just four screens.