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Mr Bean was a "self-centred, narcissistic anarchist," according to his creator Rowan Atkinson. The silent, self-sabotaging master of chaos was also, more generously, perhaps, "a nine-year-old trapped in a man's body," according to Atkinson, whose depiction of the modern-day Charlie Chaplin has amassed more than…

EXCLUSIVE: Rowan Atkinson’s Netflix comedy Man vs Bee has revealed cast, with Crazy Rich Asians star Jing Lusi leading the show that will launch on June 24. Lusi plays Nina, the owner of the luxurious mansion that is being house-sat by Trevor (Atkinson), who finds himself in a battle with a bee as he avoids…

Warner Bros has rolled cameras in the UK on its new musical movie Wonka, starring Timothée Chalamet. Additional cast members just announced include Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Olivia Colman and Jim Carter. They join Mathew Baynton (Ghosts), Tom Davis (Paddington 2), Simon Farnaby (the Paddington films), Rich…

Mr. Bean and Johnny English actor Rowan Atkinson has bemoaned the rise of cancel culture, comparing keyboard warriors to a “medieval mob roaming the streets looking for someone to burn.” In an interview with the Radio Times, the multi-hyphenated British star blamed social media platforms for increased levels of…

Cable network Ovation has headed back to Europe for its latest drama – the Rowan Atkinson-fronted Maigret. The broadcaster, which had success with French drama Versailles and British thriller Riviera, will launch the series, which stars the Mr Bean star as world-renowned fictional French detective Jules Maigret, on…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal/Working Title's Johnny English Strikes Again crossed the $100M mark at the international box office late last week and now has an offshore cume of $108.6M through Sunday. In North America this weekend, the opening was just $1.6M at a limited 554 sites, but the true domestic market on these movies…

Who needs a superhero when you have a.. Johnny English? Universal and Working Title have just dropped the first trailer for newly titled Johnny English Strikes Again. The third installment in the lucrative franchise which will see British spy English (played by Rowan Atkinson) take his very particular set of…

Ealing Studios has acquired a significant stake in TV and film company GreenAcre Films and that will allow it to expand its own burgeoning TV division. The move is likely to be the first of many new partnerships sought by Ben Latham-Jones, who recently acquired 100% of Ealing Studios Entertainment, the iconic studio’s…

Ben Latham-Jones has fully acquired Ealing Studios Entertainment, the production entity of the iconic London-based studio, it was announced today. Latham-Jones, a former creative director for Fox, will take over the role of head of studio from Barnaby Thompson, who will now segue into focusing on directing. Thompson…

Rowan Atkinson (Bean; Johnny English) will star as Georges Simenon’s iconic French detective Jules Maigret in two stand-alone feature-length dramas for ITV, Maigret Sets A Trap and Maigret’s Dead Man, it was announced today. Set in 1950's Paris, the first of the two-hour long films will go into production in September…

A sketch performed by Rowan Atkinson during British charity telethon Comic Relief prompted more than 2,200 complaints to the BBC and will be investigated by regulator Ofcom. The sketch in question saw Atkinson play a fictional version of the Archbishop of Canterbury who compared boy band One Direction to Jesus’s…

One of the UK’s most powerful talent agents has blasted British TV as an institution that’s run by "clever people making clever rubbish." Peter Bennett-Jones, founder of Endemol-owned Tiger Aspect (Mr Bean, Billy Elliot), said last night at the annual BAFTA TV Lecture in London that "shaking things up needs to be a…