{"id":668123,"date":"2026-07-01T15:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668123\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:02:15","slug":"millennial-favorites-austin-powers-and-the-grinch-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668123\/","title":{"rendered":"Millennial Favorites Austin Powers and the Grinch Are Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s quite a time to be a movie<\/a>-loving millennial<\/a>. Two comedy classics are about to get the sequel treatment: Mike Myers is returning as Austin Powers, and Jim Carrey<\/a> is coming back as the Grinch in a follow-up to How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Myers confirmed a fourth Austin Powers film would happen, when asked on Trevor Noah<\/a>\u2019s World Cup Watch Party stream on June 16, while Variety reported that same week that Carrey and director Ron Howard are re-teaming for a sequel to the holiday classic. Consider this your early Christmas and shagadelic birthday rolled into one. <\/p>\n

Why does it matter beyond the obvious joy of it all? Because nostalgia among millennials runs deep, and it has proved to be a wildly successful strategy at the box office. Just look at the renewed life of the Scream franchise or the runaway success of The Super Mario<\/a> Bros. Movie. What\u2019s old is new again is practically a millennial religion at this point, and Hollywood executives have clearly decided to lean all the way in. <\/p>\n

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And honestly? Good. These aren\u2019t just movies, they\u2019re cultural touchstones that defined a generation\u2019s sense of humor. The idea of getting more of both feels less like a cash grab and more like a gift. To quote Austin Powers, it\u2019s \u201cgroovy, baby.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunset Boulevard\/Corbis\/Universal\/Getty\u00a0 It\u2019s quite a time to be a movie-loving millennial. Two comedy classics are about to get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[193175,96,105759,26260,94387,223715,8954,29516,2839,1231,123881,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-austin-powers","tag-entertainment","tag-how-the-grinch-stole-christmas","tag-jim-carrey","tag-mike-myers","tag-millenials","tag-millennial","tag-movie","tag-movies","tag-super-mario","tag-trevor-noah","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}