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Netflix is removing a Ton of hit titles in September and fans are going to want to thoroughly go through this list.

Each month, the streaming service removes various movies and TV shows for a variety of reasons. In September, they’ll be removing several CW hits including all five seasons of Jane the Virgin, Dune, all six seasons of How to Get Away with Murder, all three Fifty Shades movies (despite them just becoming available in June and July), the Divergent films, two Conjuring movies, and more.

Keep reading to see the full list of titles being removed…

Every title leaving Netflix in September 2024:

Leaving 9/3/24

Beverly Hills Cop

Beverly Hills Cop II

Leaving 9/5/24

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Seasons 1-4

iZombie: Seasons 1-5

Jane The Virgin: Seasons 1-5

Leaving 9/8/24

Cuties

Leaving 9/19/24

Bodies Bodies Bodies

Leaving 9/24/24

A Walk to Remember

Leaving 9/27/24

Force of Nature

Great News: Seasons 1-...

Exclusive: BAFTA-nominated Friday Night Dinner director Steve Bendelack is helming a comedy movie about an ageing rock band who reunites.

Bill & Ben Productions and Night Tide Films are combining on Heavenly Waters, which will shoot in Greece later this year.

Heavenly Waters tells the story of a rock band who, after an acrimonious split in the 1970s, agree to come together in Greece to scatter the ashes of their biggest fan, but things don’t go according to plan.

The pic is the writing debut of producer Kim Leggatt and actor David Schaal.

Bendelack is a two-time BAFTA nominee who was nominated in 2012 for Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner. He has also helmed a wealth of iconic British comedies including Spitting Image, Little Britain, The Royle Family and Mr Bean’s Holiday.

Heavenly Waters reunites Leggatt with producers Ben Timlett and Bill Jones.

The animated version of Rowan Atkinson’s silent slapstick sitcom Mr Bean is to return to television for a fourth series in 2025.

Mr Bean must be one of the most well known comedy characters on the planet. Relying entirely on Rowan Atkinson’s rubber face, slapstick and visual humour, Atkinson first wrote the show with Richard Curtis and Robin Driscoll almost 35 years ago.

Premiering in 1990, Mr Bean ran for just 15 episodes, with stories typically following a formula of the hapless title character trying to accomplish a seemingly simple task and escalating it to farcical levels. Memorable moments include a dangerous diving experience, putting his swimming trunks on without removing his trousers and, perhaps the most iconic sequence from the entire series – getting a turkey stuck on his head. In 1997, the character went to America in the feature film Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie, which was directed by the much missed comedian Mel Smith.

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A New Year means lots of removals from Netflix and January 1st is looking busy, with over 100 movies set to leave the service already. Below, we’ll be keeping track of all the Netflix departures for the first month of 2024.

First, a few housekeeping notes as to how Netflix removals work before we dive in. Due to licensing agreements, shows and movies added to Netflix aren’t added forever. Instead, they’re essentially rented for a fixed period. All the shows below have their current window on Netflix ending and will likely be bound for a rival streaming service.

We list titles slightly differently from other outlets, with our listings being the actual day of removal. If you want to watch any titles scheduled to expire on January 1st, for example, you’ll need to watch by the end of December 31st.

Clockwise from upper left: Baywatch (Paramount), Land Of The Lost (Universal), Star Trek Generations (Paramount), The Last Airbender (Paramount)Graphic: AVClub

In the 1996 movie Mission: Impossible, the team concept from the TV show it was based on was quickly jettisoned, with most of the team getting killed off early in the film,...

Netflix is on the cusp of taking down a wide selection of movies and TV series.

The streaming service removes numerous titles each month, but without fanfare; unless you happen to select the thing that’s about to leave, you will have no idea there’s a limited amount of time left to watch.

Fortunately, we’ve compiled a list of every movie and TV show being removed from Netflix in April 2023.

We’ve aggregated all the impending removals from Netflix in the UK and US, which we’ve signalled below. If there isn’t a territory listed next to the title, then it will be leaving both.

Find a full list of every film and TV show arriving on Netflix this month here.

Nb: We put this list together with help from What’s on Netflix.

Movies

1 April

Akbar Birbal – US

The American Game

The Aviator – US

Bal Ganesh...

Netflix is on the cusp of taking down a wide selection of movies and TV series.

The streaming service removes numerous titles each month, but without fanfare; unless you happen to select the thing that’s about to leave, you will have no idea there’s a limited amount of time left to watch.

Fortunately, we’ve compiled a list of every movie and TV show being removed from Netflix in April 2023.

We’ve aggregated all the impending removals from Netflix in the UK and US, which we’ve signalled below. If there isn’t a territory listed next to the title, then it will be leaving both.

Find a full list of every film and TV show arriving on Netflix this month here.

Nb: We put this list together with help from What’s on Netflix.

Movies

1 April

Akbar Birbal – US

The American Game

The Aviator – US

Bal Ganesh...

Netflix is on the cusp of taking down a wide selection of movies and TV series.

The streaming service removes numerous titles each month, but without fanfare; unless you happen to select the thing that’s about to leave, you will have no idea there’s a limited amount of time left to watch.

Fortunately, we’ve compiled a list of every movie and TV show being removed from Netflix in April 2023.

We’ve aggregated all the impending removals from Netflix in the UK and US, which we’ve signalled below. If there isn’t a territory listed next to the title, then it will be leaving both.

Find a full list of every film and TV show arriving on Netflix this month here.

Nb: We put this list together with help from What’s on Netflix.

Movies

1 April

Akbar Birbal – US

The American Game

The Aviator – US

Bal Ganesh...

Netflix is on the cusp of taking down a wide selection of movies and TV series.

The streaming service removes numerous titles each month, but without fanfare; unless you happen to select the thing that’s about to leave, you will have no idea there’s a limited amount of time left to watch.

Fortunately, we’ve compiled a list of every movie and TV show being removed from Netflix in April 2023.

We’ve aggregated all the impending removals from Netflix in the UK and US, which we’ve signalled below. If there isn’t a territory listed next to the title, then it will be leaving both.

Find a full list of every film and TV show arriving on Netflix this month here.

Nb: We put this list together with help from What’s on Netflix.

Movies

1 April

Akbar Birbal – US

The American Game

The Aviator – US

Bal Ganesh...

Netflix is on the cusp of taking down a wide selection of movies and TV series.

The streaming service removes numerous titles each month, but without fanfare; unless you happen to select the thing that’s about to leave, you will have no idea there’s a limited amount of time left to watch.

Fortunately, we’ve compiled a list of every movie and TV show being removed from Netflix in April 2023.

We’ve aggregated all the impending removals from Netflix in the UK and US, which we’ve signalled below. If there isn’t a territory listed next to the title, then it will be leaving both.

Find a full list of every film and TV show arriving on Netflix this month here.

Nb: We put this list together with help from What’s on Netflix.

Movies

1 April

Akbar Birbal – US

The American Game

The Aviator – US

Bal Ganesh...

Netflix is on the cusp of taking down a wide selection of movies and TV series.

The streaming service removes numerous titles each month, but without fanfare; unless you happen to select the thing that’s about to leave, you will have no idea there’s a limited amount of time left to watch.

Fortunately, we’ve compiled a list of every movie and TV show being removed from Netflix in April 2023.

We’ve aggregated all the impending removals from Netflix in the UK and US, which we’ve signalled below. If there isn’t a territory listed next to the title, then it will be leaving both.

Nb: We put this list together with help from What’s on Netflix.

Movies

1 April

Akbar Birbal – US

The American Game

The Aviator – US

Bal Ganesh – US

Bee Movie – UK

Big Daddy – US

Bill – UK

Brokeback Mountain – US

The Bye Bye Man...

It's that time of the month when you're about to find out which movies and television shows you've had stockpiled in your watchlist are about to expire. No worries. It happens to the best of us. We live in an era where there's way too much to watch that some will inevitably slip through the cracks. But if you were hoping to catch a few of them before they're gone or off to a different streaming service, then it's not too late!

Everything I have listed here won't be leaving Netflix until the start of November, with some leaving right as the post-Halloween period begins. An interesting thing to note is the disappearance of some Netflix Originals such as the series "The Yard," which seems to be an ongoing trend, as /Film's Erin Brady has reported.

The one, however, that caught my eye was "If Anything Happens I Love You,...

To mark the release of Mr Bean’s Holiday on 25th July, we’ve been given 2 copies to give away on Blu-ray.

Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes, France, but on his way there, he is mistaken for both a kidnapper and an award-winning filmmaker when he travels with a Russian filmmaker’s son and with an aspiring actress in tow.

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A new month has arrived, which means a fresh batch of movies and TV shows streaming on Netflix. While many are no doubt still making their way through “Stranger Things” Season 4, June brings the arrival of a new season of another beloved Netflix series: “The Umbrella Academy.” The third season of the semi-superhero show premieres June 22 and finds the gang stranded in a timeline where the Umbrella Academy does not exist, while battling not only a rival team but also plenty of timeline-altering shenanigans.

In terms of new Netflix original films, June 17 sees the debut of “Spiderhead,” a psychological thriller starring Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett and directed by “Top Gun: Maverick” filmmaker Joseph Kosinski.

June will also see the debut of the new Adam Sandler-fronted basketball inspirational drama film “Hustle” on June 8, while a litany of comedy specials from the likes of Pete Davidson and Amy Schumer...

Just one month after debuting a fan favorite genre hit in the form of Stranger Things season 4, Netflix is once again coming out with the big guns for its list of new releases for June 2022.

The Umbrella Academy season 3 is set to be released June 22 and it will be a busy one for the Hargreeves family of crime fighters. After averting a 1963 nuclear apocalypse in season 2, the gang returns to the present only to find there’s a new team called the Sparrows living in their house. Based on the trailer for season 3, hilarity and many superpowers punches thrown will ensue.

Read more TV The Umbrella Academy Officially Introduces The Sparrow Academy By Alec Bojalad TV The Umbrella Academy Season 3: What To Expect By Michael Ahr

Other Netflix TV original series of note this month include the vampire love story First Kill (June 10) the Melissa McCarthy comedy God’s Favorite Idiot...

For the past two decades, Raphael Benoliel has been Hollywood’s man in France. With more than 40 projects under his belt, the Nice-born Benoliel has turned his Firstep production banner into a kind of one-stop-shop for international shoots, amassing line producer credits on projects as varied as “Les Miserables,” “Stillwater” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”

And if last year might have been Firstep’s busiest year to date following back-to-back shoots of “Emily in Paris,” “John Wick: Chapter 4” and David Fincher’s “The Killer,” this year shows no signs of letting up, which makes the circumstances of Firstep’s founding all the more ironic.

“[Firstep co-founder] Dimitri Veret and I started the company with other goals in mind,” Benoliel tells Variety. “I was receiving [employment insurance] and didn’t necessarily need the money to get by, so we launched Firstep, using the benefits to finance our shorts.”

Opportunity knocked when Benoliel – who was...

Better late than never. After the traditional Cannes Film Festival was cancelled last year due to Covid, the glitzy event is back with Covid protocols in order. Instead of taking place in May, the 74th annual gala opened on July 6 and will continue through July 17th at the glamorous French resort town.

Spike Lee, who was supposed to be jury head last year, was asked to take up the reigns of this edition. And he appeared on the legendary red carpet decked out in a striking pink ensemble. The festival opened with the Leos Carax’ offbeat musical “Annette” featuring music by the Sparks Brother and Val Kilmer’s self-titled documentary “Val,” which earned kudos and a long-standing ovation. Other films premiering at the festival including Sean Penn’s “Flag Day,” Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” Asghar Farhadi’s “The Hero” and Francois Ozon’s “Everything Went Fine.”

Besides screening and selling movies,...

Actor Rowan Atkinson is globally loved for playing Mr Bean, but he says he finds portraying the character stressful and exhausting.

The 65-year-old is developing an animated film based on the popular character, but he says he finds "the weight of responsibility not pleasant", reports dailymail.co.uk.

Atkinson played the titular role in the hit series from 1990 to 1995. He also starred in the films -- Bean Movie in 1997, and Mr Bean's Holiday in 2007.

"Having made an animated TV series, we're now in the foothills of developing an animated movie for Mr Bean -- it's easier for me to perform the character vocally than visually," he said in an interview to Radio Times.

"I don't much enjoy playing him. The weight of responsibility is not pleasant. I find it stressful and exhausting, and I look forward to the end of it," he added.

He confessed that he doesn't like the...

Amazon Studios has confirmed twenty additional cast members who have joined the streamer’s The Lord Of The Rings TV series, an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novels. Production on the sprawling drama, which was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, is currently underway in New Zealand. It resumed in late September.

Top British comedian Lenny Henry, Ozark and Westworld‘s Peter Mullan, Lloyd Owen, Augustus Prew (CBS’s Pure Genius), The Lotr movie franchise’s Peter Tait, Benjamin Walker (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), Cynthia Addai-Robinson and Simon Merrells (Spartacus: War of the Damned) are among the new additions, along with Maxim Baldry, Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman, Anthony Crum, Maxine Cunliffe, Trystan Gravelle, Thusitha Jayasundera, Fabian McCallum, Geoff Morrell, Alex Tarrant, Leon Wadham and Sara Zwangobani.

No information is provided about the characters the actors are playing; Owen is believed to play Loda,...

It’s finally the weekend and that means it’s time to dig into some new content. That’s right. No matter what your preferred streaming service is, there are a number of new movies/TV shows coming down the pipeline over the next few days.

Be it Netflix, Disney Plus, Amazon, Hulu, HBO, or Showtime and Starz, each platform is offering a nice selection of titles this weekend. Admittedly, it’s not the meatiest time for new content that we’ve had, as the last few weeks of any given month tend to slow down a bit for fresh releases, but there’s still enough here worth getting excited about.

So, let’s dive in, shall we?

Netflix

June 19

Babies: Part 2

Father Soldier Son

Feel the Beat

Floor is Lava

Lost Bullet

Girls from Ipanema: Season 2

One Way to Tomorrow

The Politician Season 2

Rhyme Time Town

Wasp Network

June...

Hulu have a whole host of new titles coming to the service this month, everything from zombie thrillers and screwball comedies to action romps and music documentaries. Suffice it to say, there’s a lot to look forward to on the streaming service over the next few weeks and below, you can find the entire rundown of what’s on the way. Ready to dive in?

Available June 1

Celebrity Family Feud: Season 6 Premiere (ABC)

Press Your Luck: Season 2 Premiere (ABC)

Match Game: Season 5 Premiere (ABC)

Children’s Hospital: Complete Series (Adult Swim)

Mike Tyson Mysteries: Complete Seasons 1-3 (Adult Swim)

10 Year Plan (2014)

4th Man Out (2015)

Above & Beyond (2014)

Almost Adults (2016)

Born to be Wild (2011)

Casino (1995)

Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)

Cliffhanger (1993)

Constantine (2005)

Dave (1993)

Digging for Fire (2015)

Dirty Dancing (1987)

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)

Equilibrium (2002)

Fair Game (2010)

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)

Futureworld (1976)

Grown Ups (2010)

Happily N’Ever After (2007)

Happily N’Ever After 2...

Hulu is out with its list of everything coming and going on the streaming service in June.

Highlights include a new episode of the Hulu original anthology series “Into the Dark” called “Good Boy,” which follows Maggie (Judy Greer), who gets an emotional support dog for her anxiety — but little does she know, he kills anyone who adds stress to her life. Also, take a closer look at the hip-hop group Lin-Manuel Miranda was in before he did “Hamilton” in a new documentary called “We Are Freestyle Love Supreme.”

Leaving at the end of the month are classics like “Bend It Like Beckham,” “Blazing Saddles” and “Kill Bill” volumes one and two.

Below is the full list of everything coming and going throughout the month of June:

Also Read: Hulu Launches New Group Viewing Feature

June 1

Celebrity Family Feud: Season 6 Premiere (ABC)

Press Your Luck: Season 2 Premiere (ABC...

There are a lot of popular streaming platforms to choose from, but Hulu has always stood alongside Netflix as one of the two essentials for households looking for diversity in content. In the past, they’ve been known for focusing more heavily on newer television content, while Netflix has always offered a larger selection of sought-after films. But now, it looks like Hulu’s June lineup is only going to continue the service’s recent trend of providing high quality movies to bring itself in line with their competitor.

First up, you can get wholesome with Mr. Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, which tells the story of an investigative journalist who learns some hard life lessons from one of television’s most beloved personalities. You can then supplement that wholesomeness with My Girl and My Girl 2 for some wonderful 90s nostalgia.

Speaking of nostalgia, you won...

June 2020 is set to be a big month for the whole streaming Disney family. Not only will ESPN+ have the entirety of The Last Dance on its servers for late-adopting sports fans to catch up with, but Disney+ will be premiering its long-awaited Artemis Fowl film. Over on its biggest streaming service in Hulu, however, Disney is taking things a bit more slowly.

This month finds only three major original releases for Hulu. Animated medieval comedy Crossing Swords premieres on June 12, then Ya love story Love Victor and cooking show Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi both arrive on June 19. All in all, that’s not a bad haul for originals for the typically slow summer months.

June 1 sees a pretty impressive crop of movies coming to Hulu’s library as well. October Sky, The X-Files (1998), and Casino will all be ready to stream at the beginning of the month.

As HBO prepares to welcome a host of new content, a number of titles will be leaving in April. 

Jim Carrey starrer Bruce Almighty will be removed from the premium outlet at the end of the month, along with tentpole films The Day After Tomorrow, Rush Hour 2 and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. 

Feel-good movies that will also exit are Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, along with its sequel, Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco. HBO viewers will also be saying goodbye to Mr. Bean's Holiday, George of the Jungle, Puss in Boots, Hedwig and the ...

As HBO prepares to welcome a host of new content, a number of titles will be leaving in April. 

Jim Carrey starrer Bruce Almighty will be removed from the premium outlet at the end of the month, along with tentpole films The Day After Tomorrow, Rush Hour 2 and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. 

Feel-good movies that will also exit are Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, along with its sequel, Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco. HBO viewers will also be saying goodbye to Mr. Bean's Holiday, George of the Jungle, Puss in Boots, Hedwig and the ...

Well here we are. April is going to be a fairly sedentary and isolating month for a lot of people. At least we now thankfully have some guidance as to our entertainment options as HBO has released its new streaming releases for April 2020.

HBO’s original series premieres are pretty busy this month. The fourth season of Issa Rae’s excellent comedy Insecure arrives on April 12. That’s preceded by the fascinating docuseries Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children and followed by book adaptation I Know This Much is True.

On the film side of things there are a few exciting options. Good Boys arrives on April 4, It: Chapter Two on April 11, and Stuber on April 18. Some older movies arriving on April 1 are Team America: World Police, Die Hard, and Slumdog Millionaire.

Here is everything else coming to HBO Now and HBO Go in April 2020 via HBO PR.

April is last call for some great movies on Netflix streaming, including "Flashdance," '"Leon: The Professional," and "Let The Right One In."

Also going bye-bye: several classic Frank Sinatra films including "Anchors Aweigh" (1945), "High Society" (1956), "On The Town" (1949), "Pal Joey" (1957) and "Some Came Running" (1958).

Here's a complete list of the movies and TV shows leaving Netflix in April:

Leaving April 1, 2016

"101 Dalmatians" (1996)

"2 Fast 2 Furious" (2003)

"Along Came a Spider" (2001)

"Along Came Polly" (2004)

"Amistad" (1997)

"Bad Johnson" (2014)

"Bandslam" (2009)

"Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics Collection: Collection 1

"Berkeley in The Sixties" (1990)

"The Butcher's Wife" (1991)

"Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" (2003)

"Chuck's Eat The Street Collection: Collection 1

"Craigslist Joe" (2012)

"Dear Genevieve Collection: Collection 1

"Eureka": Season 4.0

"Flashdance" (1983)

"Hook" (1991)

"Hotel Rwanda" (2004)

"House of Wax" (2005)

"I'll Be Home for Christmas" (1989)

"The Inexplicable Universe with Neil deGrasse Tyson" (2013)

"Leon: The Professional" (1994)

"M*A*S*H": Season 11

"Nanny McPhee" (2005)

"The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear" (1991)

"Nine to Five...

Mr. Bean is no longer a married man. Rowan Atkinson and his makeup artist wife, Sunetra Sastry, are divorcing after 24 years of marriage, the Telegraph reports. The Mr. Bean's Holiday actor, 60, and Sastry reportedly split last year. According to the Telegraph, the comedian has allegedly been dating actress Louise Ford for the past 18 months. Several unconfirmed reports claim Atkinson had an affair with Ford, 32, while still married. Atkinson was not present for the court proceeding in London on Tuesday, Nov. 10, the UK paper [...]...

We might have dismissed it as "relentlessly dull", but Terminator Genisys has found a powerful fan: China. Even bad press can't penetrate the Great Firewall, apparently.

And this isn't the first time that a film has defied expectations on its journey eastwards. Come marvel at these unlikely Chinese hits. (If some of these figures look small, it's worth noting that the Chinese box office has grown exponentially over the last handful of years. Thanks to Box Office Mojo for all stats.)

Dragonball: Evolution

Global box office: $57,497,699

Chinese box office: $7,936,392

Rotten Tomatoes: 14%

Filmgoers and Dragon Ball fans were equally turned off by this incomprehensible monster of a film. Even Chow Yun-fat and Spike from Buffy couldn't save it, so how Dragonball: Evolution became the tenth highest grossing film in China in 2009 we'll never know.

Alone in the Dark

Global box office: $10,442,808

Chinese box office: $2,250,837

Rotten Tomatoes: 1%

Here's an equation even Stephen Hawking...

Rowan Atkinson has spoken about Mr Bean as the comedy character turns 25 years old.

The actor recalled the origins of the "vindictive" Bean and contemplated the success of the "outrageously self-centred" character.

"There are moments of sentimentality in Bean but normally it's undermined pretty rapidly by his outrageously self-centred and self-regarding behaviour," Atkinson told The La Times.

"I certainly always enjoyed the vindictive side of Bean, and I think it's interesting to have your cake and eat it.

"I think sometimes he can be rather sweet, as children can, and sometimes he can be extremely unpleasant, as children can. He covers the child spectrum, I think, quite well."

On his intentions for the character, Atkinson added: "I remember feeling the frustration of the parochial nature of comedy and thinking how nice it would be if one could break that tradition and find something that was of genuine international appeal."

Atkinson...

Universal Pictures has picked up the international rights to an upcoming comedy based on a long-running BBC sitcom, Dad's Army. Universal and production companies Screen Yorkshire and DJ Films announced the film's cast, which will transport a number of famous English actors back to World War II. Bll Nighy, Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael Gambon, and Toby Jones are just a few of the many stars now set for Dad's Army. The film, directed by Oliver Parker, revolves around the British army's Home Guard in Walmington-on-Sea just as World War II is about to reach its climax. The Guard has been...

Mr. Bean is awesome. Whether it be the near silent British television series or his big screen outings in Bean and Mr. Bean's Holiday, Rowan Atkinson's signature creation is a comedy masterpiece. If you aren't familiar, I suggest you go to YouTube right now and search Mr. Bean. For everyone else, you have got to see this. The latest in a series of Snickers commercials featuring people who don't feel like themselves and are embodied by actors like the late Robin Williams or Roseanne, this...

Mr Bean will reportedly return in a new animated series.

Rowan Atkinson is developing new short-form videos featuring his comic character for YouTube, Broadcast claims.

Olympics Opening Ceremony: Rowan Atkinson causes biggest Twitter spike

Mr Bean launched as a live-action sitcom in 1989 and originally ran until 1995.

An animated spinoff followed between 2002 and 2004, while two feature films featuring the character - 1997's Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie and 2007's Mr. Bean's Holiday - have also been released.

The new animated shorts will be posted to Endemol's Mr Bean YouTube channel.

In addition to online distribution, the new Mr Bean series will be shopped to TV broadcasters internationally from this autumn.

In 2012, Atkinson admitted that he is unsure if he will ever reprise the character for a new live-action project.

You probably won't respect me after I tell you this, but the movie that really made me want to come to Cannes was Mr. Bean's Holiday, in which Rowan Atkinson's monosyllabic waif wins a trip to the French Riviera and gets lost every which way en route. There are more elegant pictures set in Cannes, like Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale, with its bad-girl jewel thief Rebecca Romijn. But Mr. Bean's haplessness, and ultimately his joy at being here--in the end, footage from his own awkward home movies accidentally finds its way into a pretentious art-house thing, vastly improving it--speak more directly to my own experience .The place is a bit mad, really, something the finale of Mr. Bean's Holiday captures: All of the characters--including a pompous actor-...

Harry Hill has started production on his first feature film.

The Harry Hill Movie will see the TV Burp star embark on a road trip to Blackpool with his hard-drinking Nan (Julie Walters) when he discovers that his hamster only has one week to live.

Inbetweeners star Simon Bird will play a vet in pursuit of the pair, while Sheridan Smith is to appear as "an undersea shell person" who steals Harry's heart. Matt Lucas is on board to portray Harry's estranged Alsatian-raised twin brother Otto.

Marc Wootton, Julian Barratt and Jim Broadbent and indie band The Magic Numbers will also feature in the supporting cast.

"I'm thrilled at last to be able to tell the world the true story of my hamster's struggle on the big screen and even more excited to be working with some of the comedy greats of the British film industry," Hill said.

The Harry Hill...

First appearing in 1958, Paddington Bear, the polite bear from deepest, darkest Peru with a love of marmalade sandwiches, has become a classic character in English children's literature, with his books selling over 30 million copies worldwide, and has become a recognisable character thanks to various cartoons and merchandise licensing. Now, the bear will be coming to the big screen, with the help of director Paul King, whose big screen debut Bunny And The Bull was endlessly inventive and enjoyable. Considering this and the fact he's best known for directing all three series of T.V. show The Mighty Boosh, he seems like an odd fit for the beloved character, but his visual style will definitely add something special to the movie, which is planned as a mixture of live action and computer generated animation. Nothing else is know about the project, save the script is written by Hamish McColl (Mr. Bean's Holiday...

While Universal Pictures is planning to soon release "Ted," a movie about a dirty teddy bear, Warner Bros is hard at work on a movie about another bear, a more polite one, named "Paddington." And today, we have the first poster for the film. Check it out below. The project was originally announced back in 2007, when it was revealed that "Harry Potter" producer David Heyman was on board. Hamish McColl (Mr. Bean's Holiday) was writing the screenplay for "Paddington," which is a CGI/live-action movie based on Michael Bond's series of books for young children. Paul King (The Mighty Boosh) is directing. Paddington has journeyed from Darkest Peru, wearing a duffle coat, hat and Wellington boots, carrying a suitcase containing an empty jar of marmalade and wearing a label around his neck that reads "Please look after this bear, thank you." His arrival in the household of the Brown...

The fate of those four horny sixth-formers, currently on world tour, will tell us a lot about the prospects for British film overseas

In Russia, they're Переростки, in Italy Finalmente Maggiorenni, in France Les Boloss. Pay attention, because this could be important for the future of British film. The Inbetweeners, as we English christened them, are currently on world tour. The Russian translation literally means "children who are older than everyone else in their class", and the Italian "finally adults". But it's the French moniker, a slangy and pejorative splice of "bourgeois" and lopette ("fag") that properly shows how every country brings different cultural expectations to the same film. Premiere magazine's verdict – "The charm of the television vignettes is diluted through the course of a film whose awful comic tempo makes it resemble a fish-and-chips version of Les Sous-Doués en Vacances" [a 1982 comedy] – was typical of a more contemptuous strain of criticism...

Friday A.M. Update: Paranormal Activity 3 earned an estimated $8 million from midnight screenings at 2,200 locations last night. That's a marked improvement over Paranormal Activity 2, which earned $6.3 million from 1,800 theaters at midnight.Forecast: After a few quiet weeks, Paranormal Activity 3 looks to provide the jolt needed to bring the box office back to life. At the very least, the horror three-quel shouldn't have any trouble hitting the top spot against mild competition from The Three Musketeers, Johnny English Reborn and The Mighty Macs. Paranormal Activity 3 is set to haunt around 4,500 screens at 3,321 locations, while The Three Musketeers battles on roughly 3,800 screens at 3,017 locations (a 3D theater count is not currently available). Johnny English Reborn and The Mighty Macs have much lighter releases, hitting 1,551 and 975 mostly single-screen locations, respectively.Coming off the enormous success of the first Paranormal Activity ($107.9 million), Paranormal Activity 2 debuted to a huge $40.7 million...

Eight years after the first film, audiences are flocking to see Rowan Atkinson's spy sequel; and Disney introduces an old friend to a new generation in 3D

The winner

Conventional wisdom dictates that sequels can suffer at the box office when there is a significantly long gap between releases, but eight years after Johnny English, audiences have embraced the follow-up in huge numbers. Johnny English Reborn opened at the weekend with £4.96m, which compares with a debut of £3.44m for the original Rowan Atkinson spy caper in 2003. Another comparison: Mr Bean's Holiday began its run in 2007 with £4.50m plus £1.94m in previews. The Johnny English Reborn opening number is the best for any film since The Inbetweeners Movie arrived in mid-August.

The runner-up

With Johnny English clearly a hit with families, you might think there wouldn't be much room left in the market for a flick with kiddie appeal,...

Rowan Atkinson has revealed that he will probably not play the role of Mr Bean again, because he thinks he is now "too old". The actor portrayed the clumsy character on the TV series Mr Bean from 1989 to 1995, before returning in two movies, 1997's Bean and 2007's Mr Bean's Holiday. Atkinson explained that while he would "never say never" to resurrecting the character, he now feels that he is "less qualified" for the part due to his age. "I've got a feeling I probably won't play the character again," Atkinson told the Daily Mail. "Never say never, (more)...

How exactly did the TV spin-off beat The Hangover: Part II to bag the biggest ever UK opening weekend for a comedy? Plus: Cowboys & Aliens are flogging a dead horse, and The Guard straddles territories

The winner

Given the hefty sales of The Inbetweeners DVDs, fans of the sitcom had already shown a willingness to part with their cash. Buying a box set is one thing; paying for a one-off cinema experience is something else. What proportion of the fanbase would cough up to see their heroes enjoy a mishap-strewn lads' holiday in the Aegean?

The answer, evidently, is all of it. In fact, with an astonishing opening weekend of £13.22m, including £4.57m in Wednesday/Thursday previews, it seems likely that The Inbetweeners Movie is already reaching beyond the fanbase to an audience that only viewed the three E4 series now and then. The question is how much further it...

The Inbetweeners Movie has broken box office records in the UK, beating blockbusters Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Cowboys & Aliens to secure the number one spot. The feature film adaptation of E4's popular sitcom, starring Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley and Blake Harrison, banks more than £13 million from 455 screens across the UK to coast past its big-budget competition. The Inbetweeners Movie's debut weekend, including previews on Wednesday and Thursday, makes it the biggest opening of all time for a UK comedy. Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason (£10.43 million), Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit (£9.37m), Mamma Mia! (£6.59m) and Mr Bean's Holiday (£6.44m) follow the The Inbetweeners Movie in the UK all-time list. Producer Chris (more)...

The Inbetweeners: The Movie sees Will, Simon, Neil and Jay transported, in all their puerile glory, to Crete. But do the writers and cast realise this is the end?

The feature film-of-the-sitcom is one of the less heralded genres in cinema. Forty years ago, when Hollywood's vision of a low-budget hit was the cool and radical Easy Rider, the British film industry couldn't have been eulogising a less glamorous form of transport, when Hammer brought the sitcom On the Buses to the big screen.

That first On the Buses film made more than a million pounds, and sparked a gold rush. 1973 saw nine films based on sitcoms, including Love Thy Neighbour, Father, Dear Father and even For the Love of Ada. By the end of the decade, though, the notoriously thin quality of the adaptations meant the genre had become irrevocably tarnished.

But in 1997, the astonishing success of Bean,...

Back In 2003, James Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade parodied the 007 franchise when they (along with William Davies) penned the film Johnny English, directed by Peter Howitt.

Rowan Atkinson played the bungling British spy and now, eight years later, he's on his way back to the big screen in Johnny English Reborn.

This time, it's scripted by Hamish McColl, who also wrote the screenplay for Atkinson's 2007 release Mr Bean's Holiday.

A new trailer has been released for the film, which hits cinemas on October 7, along with a synopsis.

Synopsis:

Rowan Atkinson returns to the role of the accidental secret agent who doesn't know fear or danger in the comedy spy-thriller Johnny English Reborn.

In his latest adventure, the most unlikely intelligence officer in Her Majesty's Secret Service must stop a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos.

In the years since MI...

Willem Dafoe is a man of eclectic taste, vacillating between decidedly arthouse fare like "Antichrist" and "The Dust Of Time," low rent fare like "Mr. Bean's Holiday" and "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant" and straight up tentpole movies such as "Spiderman" and the upcoming "John Carter Of Mars." He follows his muse wherever it goes really, and it looks like it has a taste for the supernatural. THR reports that Dafoe is in talks to join "The Mummy" and "G.I. Joe" director Stephen Sommers' gestating tween thriller "Odd Thomas." Starring Anton Yelchin and Addison Timlin, the film is an…...

For getting on fifteen years now, Working Title, the biggest dog in the U.K. production company world, have carved out a severely profitable niche in family comedies that, while they barely make an impact in the U.S. market, manage hugely impressive grosses internationally--a remarkable feat, considering that comedy is the hardest genre to translate successfully. Starting with the biggest, "Bean," in 1997 (which managed a haul of $250 million worldwide, five times the U.S. take), they've come along every few years, with one equally successful sequel to that film, "Mr. Bean's Holiday," and a pair of "Nanny McPhee" pictures This…...

Just this morning, Rosamund Pike told us that her next project is the sequel to Rowan Atkinson's "Johnny English," called "Johnny English Reborn." And now comes word that the rest of the cast includes Gillian Anderson (X-Files), Dominic West (Punisher: War Zone), and upcomer Daniel Kaluuya. Atkinson (Bean) returns as Johnny English and finds himself embroiled in trying to stop a plot by a group of international assassins hunting down the Chinese premier. The new movie will be directed by Oliver Parker (Dorian Gray, St. Trinian's) from a script by Hamish McColl( Mr. Bean's Vacation) and William Davies (How to Train Your Dragon). The plan is to being shooting for 13 weeks in the UK and Hong Kong starting this week. this week.

In the history of cinema, there have been 416 films that have made $200 million or more (not adjusted for inflation) worldwide. Thirty-six of those movies managed to make over $200 million without a lot of help, percentage-wise, from the United States. That is to say, less than 30 percent of the overall gross of those 36 films came from domestic audiences. I don't know why this is fascinating to me, but it is. Maybe it is to you, too. I like box office numbers. Like this fun fact: Did you know that the Brad Pitt movie Troy, which was considered a huge failure in the United States, actually made nearly $500 million worldwide? It's true. Also, though Avatar is the biggest grossing movie of all time in America (and overseas), it only received about 28 percent of its $2.7 billion box office from America.

Overall, however, I have to concede that most of the movies --- save...