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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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Bean, James Bean
Rowan Atkinson, probably best known for his portrayal of Mr. Bean is helping protect the British Crown in his latest movie, Johnny English. In it, he plays a not quite suave and not quite sophisticated secret agent, sort of a cross between Mr. Bean and James Bond. (An interesting piece of trivia, two decades earlier Rowan Atkinson played a similar character in Never Say Never Again.) And while Johnny English doesn’t open domestically till July 18th, it has already opened overseas in almost two dozen markets, and opened #1 in most of them, including huge opening in the UK and Germany. However, all this success doesn’t guarantee a hit here. After all, Bean gross $232 million worldwide back in 1997, but less than $50 million of that was from the domestic market.
Submitted by: C.S.Strowbridge
Source: Screen Daily
Date posted: 2003-04-19
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