 Mr Bean's Holiday is a follow-up to Rowan Atkinson's 1997 original |
Comedy Mr Bean's Holiday has gone to the top of the UK and Irish box office chart in its first week in cinemas. Rowan Atkinson stars in the film, which sees the bumbling Mr Bean on a break in the south of France, where he stumbles into the Cannes Film Festival.
It took �4.5m between Friday and Sunday, with a further �1.9m added from preview screenings on 24 and 25 March.
Epic war movie 300, starring Gerard Butler, dropped to number two, taking �2.3m over the weekend.
 | UK AND IRELAND TOP FIVE 1. Mr Bean's Holiday, �6.4m 2. 300, �2.3m 3. The Hills Have Eyes II, �775,000 4. Meet the Robinsons, �622,000 5. Premonition, �457,000 Source: Screen International |
Other new entries included horror film The Hills Have Eyes II at three and Disney's Meet The Robinsons at four. Rowan Atkinson has said the inspiration for the film is classic French comedy Mr Hulot's Holiday, which starred Jacques Tati.
The movie is a sequel to 1997's Bean, which made $251m (�125m) worldwide.
Elsewhere in the charts, Hot Fuzz spends its seventh week in the top 10, falling three places to number nine.
The police movie parody, which stars Simon Pegg, has now made �20.5m in the UK alone.
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