RELEASED:1977
DOMESTIC TOTAL GROSS:Approximately $15 million
Airplane!
SPOOFED:Zero Hour!(1957).
RELEASED:1980
DOMESTIC TOTAL GROSS:$83.5 million
Top Secret!

Everett Collection
SPOOFED:War movies, Elvis Presley musicals, andThe Blue Lagoon(1980).
RELEASED:1989
DOMESTIC TOTAL GROSS:$6.1 million
Hot Shots!
RELEASED:1995
DOMESTIC TOTAL GROSS:$10.8 million
Jane Austen’s Mafia!

SPOOFED:Mafia movies, includingThe Godfather(1972).
RELEASED:1998
DOMESTIC TOTAL GROSS:$19.9 million
The Scary Movie Series
SPOOFED:Horror movies.
RELEASED:2001
DOMESTIC TOTAL GROSS:$38.2 million
Kung Pow!

Everett Collection
Enter the Fist
SPOOFED:Martial arts movies.
DOMESTIC TOTAL GROSS:$39.7 million
Meet the Spartans
SPOOFED:Zack Snyder’s300(2007)
RELEASED:2008

Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection

Everett Collection

MCA/Courtesy Everett Collection

MGM/ Courtesy Everett Collection.

Everett Collection

Orion Pictures Corp/Courtesy Everett Collection

20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection

MGM/Courtesy Everett Collection

Robert Isenberg

Columbia/Courtesy Everett Collection

Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection

Miramax/Courtesy Everett Collection

Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection

20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection


Myles Aronowitz

Gemma La Mana

John P. Johnson

Doug Hyun