PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
Universal Pictures announced that they were going to release a sequel to 'Johnny English' in April 2010 seven years following the first film. Universal funded the film which came to $45 million and made a total of $159,270,879 in the Box Office.
Universal Pictures have produced a massive amount of films since it was founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle. Films such as Jurassic Park, Babe, American Pie, The Bourne Identity, Nanny McPhee and Despicable me.
| English Distributor (Released) | Universal International Pictures |
| Production | Universal Pictures |
| Foreign Distributor (Released) | Universal Pictures |
| Production | Working Title Films |
| Production | Hassen Brahiti / Studio Canal |
| Production | Relativity Media |
CAST
- Rowan Atkinson - First television appearance was in "Not the Nine O'Clock News" for the BBC. With the success led to starring in the medieval sitcom "The Black Adder". He later created and starred in "Mr. Bean". This was a success and several sequels were created during the 1990s, and eventually made into a major motion picture called "Bean". A second film was created called "Mr. Bean's Holiday". In 1995 and 1997, Atkinson portrayed Inspector Raymond Fowler in the popular "The Think Blue Line" television series, written by Ben Elton, which takes place in a police station located in fictitious Gasfourth. He also starred in the James Bond parody "Johnny English" in 2003. It's sequeal, "Johnny English Reborn" was released on 7th October 2011.
- Gillian Anderson - Starred in "The X-Files". Anderson had roles in a handful of films during the run of "The X-Files" and starred in "The House of Mirth". In 2005 she was in the British TV series "Bleak House". During 2006 and 2007, Anderson appeared in two British films: The Last King of Scotland (2006) and Straightheads (2007).Anderson hosted Masterpiece Theatre during the Jane Austen series.From December 2007 to March 112008, Anderson filmed The X-Files: I Want to Believe.Anderson portrayed Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Donmar Warehouse in London's West End during a limited engagement which ran from May 14, 2009 until July 18, 2009.Anderson had a nomination for Best Actress in the Lawrence Olivier Awards 2010, for productions which opened in the 2009 calendar year for her portrayal of Nora.In April 2011 she starred in the BBC adaptation The Crimson Petal and the White as Mrs. Castaway. Anderson appears as the head of MI7 Pamela Thornton in Johnny English Reborn, which opened internationally in Australia on September 15, 2011, and to some acclaim as Miss Havisham in a three-part BBC adaptation of Great Expectations that aired in late December 2011. On February 3rd, 2012, TVWise reported that Gillian Anderson had been cast in the lead role for a new drama series for BBC Two titled The Fall.
- Rosamund Pike - While she was still at university, Pike made appearances on British television shows, including A Rather English Marriage (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), and Love in a Cold Climate(2001), a miniseries based on Nancy Mitford's novels The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate. She also appeared as "Sarah Beaumont" in an episode of the series Foyle's War. After graduating she considered working at Waterstone's bookshop, due to a lack of acting opportunities, but was offered a role as a Bond girl and MI6 agent assigned to aid James Bond in Die Another Day. She also appeared in the special show Bond Girls Are Forever and, shortly afterwards, the BAFTA tribute to the James Bond series. Pike played Elizabeth Malet in The Libertine (2004) co-starring Johnny Depp, which won her the Best Supporting Actress award at the British Independent Film Awards. In the same year, she portrayed Rose in The Promised Land (a film about Israel), and starred as scientist Samantha Grimm in the cinematic adaptation of the computer game Doom. In 2005, she appeared as Jane, the elder sister of Elizabeth (played by Keira Knightley), in Pride & Prejudice. Her stage credits include Hitchcock Blonde by Terry Johnson (in a role requiring her to appear completely nude on stage with only a pair of high heels) and Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke, both in London's West End, and Gaslight at London's Old Vic Theatre. Pike has said that she would be happy to do at least one play every year. In 2009, she played the title character in Madame De Sade during the Donmar's West End season.Pike has a role in the film adaptation of Anne Michaels's novel Fugitive Pieces. She starred as a successful attorney in the film Fracture, opposite Anthony Hopkinsand Ryan Gosling.She appeared in the British film Made in Dagenham and in the Canadian film Barney's Version where she plays Miriam. In 2010, she starred in a production of Hedda Gabler on UK tour. Pike has recorded voicework for a lead role in the film Jackboots on Whitehall and lent her voice to a new series of James Bond audio-books, narrating The Spy Who Loved Me. Pike plays the part of Kate Sumner in the 2011 Bond-spoof film Johnny English Reborn, playing a psychologist and English's love interest.
- Dominic West - West made his debut in 1991 in a short called 3 Joe. His other screen appearances include True Blue, Chicago and Mona Lisa Smile. His most notable television role has been Baltimore police detective Jimmy McNulty on
the HBO television police drama The Wire.
West was praised for the accuracy of his character's accent. During his stint
on The Wire, West directed
the season 5 episode, "Took". In film, he portrayed the heavy metal guitarist Kirk Cuddy in the 2001 film Rock Star. In 2006 West made a guest
appearance as an actor in a sketch in The Catherine
Tate Show, alongside "Frankie Howerd impressionist".
In 2007, he played the Spartan politician Theron in 300. West also starred in the 1999 film
version of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer
Night's Dream as Lysander. West appeared in the role of Oliver Cromwell in
the Channel 4 series The Devil's Whore. West played the
villain, Jigsaw, in the December 2008 film Punisher: War Zone. He also made an
appearance on Eminem's 2009 album Relapse on the opening track, as a doctor discharging Eminem from a rehab
facility.In December 2009, he starred as Hank in a radio adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's expressionist play The Hairy Ape for BBC Radio 3, was
a guest presenter on the BBC show Have I Got
News for You, and ended the year alongside Joan Rivers and Sarah Jessica Parker with an appearance on Graham Norton's New Year's Eve Show. West portrayed General Virilus in Neil Marshall's adventure thriller Centurion
and stars in the UK Ghost film The
Awakening. In 2011, West appeared as a news presenter on the BBC-TV period drama series The Hour. He also filmed Appropriate Adult, a series about serial killer Fred West which
focuses on the events between the Wests' arrests in 1994, and Fred's suicide in Birmingham's Winson Green Prison on New Year's Day, 1995. His physical
resemblance to West was noted during filming and Fred West's daughter Mae West
thought he captured the "evil essence of him - his character, his
mannerisms, even his gait." Janet Leach found it difficult to approach
Dominic in character on set because he was so convincing that it took Leach
back 17 years. The series aired on ITV on 4 and 11
September as a two part 90 minute special. Dominic West also said "I have
this recurring dream where I'm perched on a wall and Fred West is trying to
grab me and pull me down”
- Daniel Kaluuya - Kaluuya then joined the original cast of Skins as Posh Kenneth and was a contributor on the first two series, as well as being a staff writer, and the head writer of the second series episode "Jal" and third series episode "Thomas". He also presented the Skins Podcast (also called Skinscast). After Skins Kaluuya appeared as a guest star in many established series such as Silent Witness, the Doctor Who special Planet of the Dead and Lewis. He has also appeared in the sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look twice and the sketch show Harry and Paul. Kaluuya also voiced a character in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Sneakiepeeks. In 2009 he became a regular cast member in the ITV comedy FM as amateur DJ–Radio Runner "Ades" and also as Michael "Tea Leaf" Fry in dark BBC comedy Psychoville. At the end of 2009, the Screen International Magazine picked Kaluuya out in their annual report as a 'UK Star of Tomorrow',. In 2010 Kaluuya played the lead role in Roy Williams' Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Theatre in London for which both the play and Kaluuya won rave reviews and he won both the Evening Standard Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer. In 2011 Kaluuya was leading man in Daniel Mulloy's Baby, which went on to win the Best Short Film Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as well as the Best Short Film Award at the British Independent Film Awards. In 2011 Enda Walsh's adaption of his stage play Chatroom was also released with Kaluuya having a main role. He has recently appeared in the Johnny English sequel,Johnny English Reborn, as Agent Tucker. He also played the role of Mac Armstrong in BBC3's supernatural drama The Fades. Kaluuya played one of the lead characters 'Bing' in Channel Four's drama series Black Mirror, broadcast in December 2011. The episode "15 Million Merits" was set in a claustrophobic and disturbing dystopia, which satirises our obsession with social media, the spectacle and technology.
- Richard Schiff - Schiff initially studied directing. He directed several off-Broadway plays, including Antigone in 1983 with a just-graduated Angela Bassett. In the mid-1980s Schiff decided to try his hand at acting and landed several TV roles. He was seen by Steven Spielberg in an episode of the TV drama High Incident and was cast in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). His career began an upward climb that led to his co-starring role as White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler on Aaron Sorkin's award winning television series The West Wing. Schiff became known for his introverted and intense approach to his craft as well as his low-key delivery style.1995 saw Schiff playing the lawyer to Kevin Spacey's "John Doe" in the hit Se7en. In 1996, Schiff guest starred on the TV series ER (Season 2 - Episode 17), and appeared in NYPD Blue the following year. In 1996 he played a corrupt probation officer in City Hall along with Al Pacino and John Cusack. Schiff played a doctor alongside Eddie Murphy in the 1998 Dr. Dolittle remake. He also played Col./Brig. Gen. Robert Laurel Smith in the 1998 HBO TV movie The Pentagon Wars, based on the real-life development of the US Army's Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle. That same year, Schiff appeared in the movie Deep Impact, in which he played Don Beiderman. Schiff appeared in one episode of Becker during its first season. In 2001, he acted in the movie What's the Worst That Could Happen?. He played the part of the tough Mr. Turner in I Am Sam opposite Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer and co-starred in People I Know with Al Pacino. Schiff appeared in the 2004 film Ray as Ray Charles's producer, Jerry Wexler, shaving his beard for the role. After working on The West Wing for six seasons, Schiff chose to leave the series, fulfilling his contractual obligations by appearing in half of the following season's episodes. When NBC chose to end the series, Schiff continued his appearances until the end of the show's run in May 2006, though he did not appear in the series finale. That same year he starred along with Peter Krause in the thriller Civic Duty. Schiff had a cameo appearance as himself in the second season finale of Entourage. The scene has Schiff at lunch with his agent Ari Gold, where he declares a desire to act in action movies. In early 2006, Schiff returned to his stage roots, starring in the premiere run of Underneath the Lintel, a one-act, single-character play by Glen Berger, at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In February 2007, he appeared in the West End production of Underneath the Lintel in the Duchess Theatre in London, England, and appeared on BBC Radio Five Live and talked at length to Simon Mayo about his experiences acting in The West Wing and his new West End production. In 2007, he appeared as Philip Cowen in the season finale of Burn Notice. A radio version of Underneath the Lintel, performed by Schiff, was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on January 5, 2008. Schiff starred in Lanford Wilson's Talley's Folly at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey in the fall of 2008, as accountant Matt Friedman, opposite Margot White as Sally Talley. Later that year Schiff co-starred in Last Chance Harvey with Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson and Another Harvest Moon with Ernest Borgnine and appeared in the season finale of Eli Stone. Schiff played Charles Fischer in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles in the Season 2 episode "Complications". The character was a collaborator of Skynet and a traitor to the resistance. He was sent back in time to the present as a reward for his service to Skynet. He played an Orthodox rabbi on an episode of In Plain Sight with former The West Wing co-star Mary McCormack. In 2009, he co-starred in the movies Imagine That, with Eddie Murphy, and Solitary Man, with Michael Douglas and Susan Sarandon. Later in 2009, he went back to London to shoot two other movies: The Infidel, in which he starred opposite Omid Djalili, and Made in Dagenham, with Sally Hawkins and Bob Hoskins. Schiff also appeared as a hypnotist in one episode of Monk's seventh season. He starred in Fox's short-lived 2010 series Past Life. He has been cast in a recurring role in CBS´s new spinoff-series Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior as FBI Director Jack Fickler, the boss of Forest Whitaker´s character. Schiff also had a recurring role in the NBC series The Cape. He also has guest starred on Any Human Heart with Jim Broadbent playing the role of a psychiatrist, the second season of White Collar, and will play a part in Johnny English Reborn. In April 2011, Schiff returned to the London West End in the play Smash!. He will play opposite Rob Lowe in the drama Knife Fight. and he will starring oppsite Josh Duhamel, Rosario Dawson and Bruce Willis in Fire With Fire (II). Schiff has been cast to star in the new Showtime series House of Lies, starring Kristen Bell and Don Cheadle. He has also been cast in the film The Frozen Ground opposite Nicolas Cage and John Cusack, and in the TV movie Innocent with Bill Pullman. He has an recurring guest role in the TV series Once Upon A Time and has joined Helen Hunt and former The West Wing star Bradley Whitford in the movie Decoding Annie Parker. He will also play Dr. Emil Hamilton in the upcoming 2013 Superman reboot Man of Steel.
- Tim McInnerny - One of McInnerny's first roles was the bumbling aristocrat Lord Percy Percy in the The Black Adder during the early 1980's. He reprised his role in the second series Blackadder II but declined to do so for the third series for fear of being typecast, though he did make a guest appearance in one episode. The following year, he returned to the cast for the fourth series Blackadder Goes Forth as Captain Kevin Darling, the cowardly aide of Stephen Fry's General Melchett. Alongside Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson, he is the only cast member to have made appearances in all four series.
McInnerny has also starred in various films including Wetherby, 101 Dalmatians, where he was reunited with Blackadder co-star Hugh Laurie, and Notting Hill, written by Blackadder creator Richard Curtis.
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