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Beyoncé as Foxxy Cleopatra, Michael Caine as Austin's dad, a Dutch villain with a gold-plated problem, and an opening sequence in which Tom Cruise, Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito and Gwyneth Paltrow play the cast. The 2002 threequel had the biggest July opening ever at the time and a title the Bond people tried to take away.
The Nintendo 64 first-person shooter that redefined console multiplayer: four players split-screen deathmatch, and an iron-clad house rule banning Oddjob because his short stature slipped under auto-aim. Rare's landmark game sold over 8 million copies and owned living rooms until Halo arrived.
"We've got stars directing our fate" over sweeping James Bond strings — Robbie Williams' pre-2000 anthem gave him his first solo UK number one in September 1998. In America it was supposed to be his big breakthrough; it stalled at #72, which tells you the whole strange story of his career on this side of the Atlantic.