Mr. Bean's Holiday is a 2007 comedy film directed by Steve Bendelack and written by Hamish McColl and Robin Driscoll. Based on the British sitcom series Mr. Bean created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, it is a sequel to Bean (1997). The film stars Atkinson as Mr. Bean, with Maxim Baldry, Emma de Caunes, Willem Dafoe and Karel Roden in supporting roles. In the film, Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes, France, but on his way there, he is mistaken for a kidnapper and meets an award-winning filmmaker after he travels with both a Russian filmmaker's son and an aspiring actress in tow. The film premiered on 25 March 2007 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, and was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2007 by Universal Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics, and was a box-office success, grossing $232 million against a budget of $25 million.