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Exclusive: Universal/Working Title’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy has crossed the $100 million mark at the international box office. The return of Renée Zellweger as the titular heroine swept past the milestone with Wednesday’s numbers included, reaching $101.3M through yesterday.

Whereas this is a direct-to-Peacock play domestically, Universal is releasing theatrically overseas. In 75 Uni markets through Wednesday, the gross is $94.8M. Studiocanal handles France where the total to date is $6.5M. Note that Universal still has Japan and Korea on deck, on April 11 and April 16, respectively.

Mad About the Boy, directed by Michael Morris and starring Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall, has now topped the offshore lifetime of Ticket to Paradise, making it Working Title’s biggest film post-pandemic.

In the UK & Ireland, the fourquel remains at a strong No. 1 with a running total of $47.6M through Wednesday. It surpassed the lifetimes of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason...

UK-Ireland top five Feb 28-Mar 2 RankFilm (origin)DistributorFeb 28-Mar 2 grossTotalWeek 1 Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (UK-Fr-us) Universal £4.1m £36m 3 2 Captain America: Brave New World (US) Disney £1.5m £15.7m 3 3 Dog Man (US) Universal £680,363 £12.1m 4 4 The Monkey (US) Black Bear £603,000 £2.2m 2 5 The Last Showgirl (US) Picturehouse £291,598 £384,166 1

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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy topped the UK-Ireland box office chart for a third consecutive weekend as The Last Showgirl led the openers, and Oscar films experienced a bump.

Mad About the Boy added £4.1m on its third session for Universal – a 40% drop, that brought it to just shy of £36m.

Updated: Ahead of next weekend’s domestic and wider overseas rollout, Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 kicked off in Korea this session. The sci-fi satire hit Bong’s home market with an estimated $9M four-day start (which includes tomorrow’s Independence Day holiday), scoring the biggest opening weekend of 2025 so far and the best for a Warner Bros movie since 2019, as well as Robert Pattinson’s top Korea launch ever.

Bong’s first film since his multiple Oscar winner Parasite, Mickey 17 was the No. 1 draw for Korea audiences who gave it a 70% market share. The movie debuted on a non-traditional Friday, with the early play teeing up the global rollout this coming week which will include such majors as China, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, Australia and all of Latin America, alongside North America.

The Korea start came in higher than Dune: Part Two (+10%), Alien: Romulus (+33%), Furiosa (+64%), Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...

“Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” is nearing a sweet box office benchmark with the fourth installment in the love-struck film franchise about to surpass $75 million overseas.

“Bridget Jones 4,” starring Renée Zellweger as the titular heroine, added a solid $19.2 million over the weekend from 73 international markets for a tally of $72.9 million. Those ticket sales are higher than the three prior “Bridget Jones” films as well as 2022’s Julia Roberts and George Clooney-led “Ticket to Paradise” at the same point in their theatrical cycles, according to distributor Universal Pictures. The $50 million-budgeted film debuted on Peacock in the United States.

For context, 2001’s “Bridget Jones’s Diary” earned $262 million internationally while its sequels, 2004’s “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason” and 2016’s “Bridget Jones’s Baby” generated $224 million and $187 million overseas, respectively. Meanwhile, “Ticket to Paradise” earned $100 million overseas. With all of these romantic-comedies, foreign ticket sales accounted for at least 60% and as much as 89% of overall revenues.

Sofia Carson is becoming a Netflix star. After being brilliant in 2024's thriller, Carry-On, she will now turn lead in a new Netflix movie called The Life List. The story revolves around a woman who is set on a journey by her mother to re-access her life. The twist is that Carson's character (Alex Rose) is given a new DVD each time she goes about completing tasks on her bucket list.

Mind you, at least some of the bucket list was created when Alex was a child, so some of what she has to do might be something she would never do as an adult. The list includes participating in an open mic night, playing basketball in a one-on-one game, and teaching at a women's shelter. The truth is that the film is not a series of episodes of Alex working her way down the list.

This is more about...

Sofia Carson in The Life List – Picture: Netflix

In March 2024, Netflix confirmed The Life List, a new romantic comedy starring Sofia Carson. The movie is due out on Netflix soon, so we’re here with everything known about it, including the full cast, production updates, plot details, and more on its release date, which is now set for March 28th.

Adam Brooks is on board to both write and direct the project. The Canadian screenwriter and director is no stranger to the romantic comedy space, having written or directed (or both) titles like Definitely, Maybe, and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, plus the Netflix Original movie Nappily Ever After, released in 2018.

This isn’t the first time The Lift List has been attempted to be brought to the big screen. Ahead of the book’s release in 2013, Fox 2000 optioned the film rights for the novel, with Hutch Parker set to produce.

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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy brought the band back together, with stars like Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, and Hugh Grant reprising their roles, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, and Isla Fisher joining the cast. Despite the caliber of talent involved, the film didn’t get an American theatrical release, instead sneaking onto Peacock last week.

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The film is directed by Michael Morris and is...

Universal’s “Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy” delivered a record-breaking debut at the U.K. and Ireland box office, grossing £12.3 million ($15.5 million) in its opening four-day weekend, according to Comscore. The highly anticipated fourth installment in the “Bridget Jones” franchise not only secured the biggest opening of the year but also made history as the highest-grossing romantic comedy debut ever in the region, surpassing the previous record set by “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.”

Universal reports that the U.K. and Ireland opening for “Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy” was across 2,250 screens. The film claimed the title of the highest-ever opening for a Working Title production and landed as the 11th biggest Universal opening of all time in the market, ranking just behind “Jurassic World Dominion” and ahead of the opening weekends of “Oppenheimer,” “Minions” and “Despicable Me 3.”

The romantic comedy, behind which Miramax is the studio and co-financier,...

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy goes straight to streaming in the US – but easily defeats Captain America: Brave New World in UK cinemas.

An interesting box office tussle took place at the UK box office this weekend just gone, as two franchises duked it out for the top spot. Appreciating the headline to this article has given the ending away, it was a case of the fourth Bridget Jones film going up against the 35th Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, Captain America: Brave New World.

In the end, it wasn’t even close either.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy stormed to the number one spot, with an opening weekend in the UK of £10.2m. That’s the biggest opening for a romantic comedy since Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason over 20 years ago.

Marvel’s latest juggernaut meanwhile, Captain America: Brave New World, had to content itself with £6.4m over the weekend,...

Rank Film (origin) Distributor Feb 14-16 gross Total Week 1 Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy(US-Fr-uk) Universal £10.2m £12.3m 1 2 Captain America: Brave New World(US) Disney £6.4m £6.4m 1 3 Dog Man(US) Universal £1.9m £5.6m 2 4 Heart Eyes(US) Paramount £613,000 £710,000 1 5 Mufasa: The Lion King(US) Disney £453,824 £30.9m 9

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Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy scored a huge £10.2m opening weekend – the biggest ever for a romantic comedy at the UK-Ireland box office.

Mad About The Boy was ahead of the £7.1m start of Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason, the second film in the series from 2004; and of...

Worldwide box office: February 14-16 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l) Territories 1. Ne Zha 2(various) $279.6m $1.64bn $272.4m $1.63bn 4 2. Captain America: Brave New World(Disney) $180.9m $180.9m $92.4mm $92.4mm 53 3. Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (various) $32.8m $34.3m $32.8m $34.3m 73 4. Detective Chinatown 1900 (various) $26m $443.5m $26m $441.6m 8 5. Paddington In Peru (various) $20.3m $128.8m $7.3m $115.8m 54 6. Chhaava (various) $19.1m $19.1m $17.3m $17.3m 21 7. Dog Man (Universal) $13.9m $84.5m $4.2m $17.6m 48 8. Heart Eyes (Sony) $10m $22.5m 1 9. Mufasa: The Lion King (Disney) $10m $686.3m $5.8m $445.5m 53 10. God Save The Tuche(various) $5m $15.4m $5m $15.4m 2

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Worldwide box office: February 14-16 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l) Territories 1. Ne Zha 2(various) $279.6m $1.64bn $272.4m $1.63bn 4 2. Captain America: Brave New World(Disney) $180.9m $180.9m $92.4mm $92.4mm 53 3. Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (various) $32.8m $34.3m $32.8m $34.3m 73 4. Detective Chinatown 1900 (various) $26m $443.5m $26m $441.6m 8 5. Paddington In Peru (various) $20.3m $128.8m $7.3m $115.8m 54 6. Chhaava (various) $19.1m $19.1m $17.3m $17.3m 21 7. Dog Man (Universal) $13.9m $84.5m $4.2m $17.6m 48 8. Heart Eyes (Sony) $10m $22.5m 1 9. Mufasa: The Lion King (Disney) $10m $686.3m $5.8m $445.5m 53 10. God Save The Tuche(various) $5m $15.4m $5m $15.4m 2

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Update: Super busy weekend at the international box office with Marvel/Disney’s Captain America: Brave New World and Universal/Working Title’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy both making their debuts while Chinese blockbuster Ne Zha 2 keeps zooming along — and also hit North America this session.

Captain America came in pretty much bang on worldwide projections with $192.4M (including domestic’s holiday Monday estimate). Of that, $92.4M is from 52 overseas markets through Sunday. The international bow is under the $110M we saw as a possibility before the weekend, though as cautioned, that included the swing market of China where Brave New World faced massive competition from Ne Zha 2.

Anthony Mackie’s first full feature adventure carrying the shield opened No. 1 or No. 1 non-local in nearly all major markets as well as most smaller markets. The most significant market not at No. 1 was the UK where Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy...

Moviegoers are still mad about Bridget Jones.

“Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” the fourth installment in the love-struck franchise, opened solidly to $35.5 million from 71 markets at the international box office. Those ticket sales outshined “Sex and the City 2” as the biggest start for a romantic comedy in comparable overseas markets, according to distributor Universal Pictures. The film, starring Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones, debuted on Peacock in the United States.

The fourth “Bridget Jones” enjoyed the biggest start in the United Kingdom and Ireland with $14.8 million, followed by Australia with $3.3 million, and France (where Studio Canal is handling the rollout) with $3.3 million.

Though domestic cinema operators are disappointed that “Bridget” isn’t playing in U.S. theaters, the franchise has always been far bigger at the international box office. For 2001’s “Bridget Jones’s Diary” ($334 million globally), 2004’s “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason” ($265 million globally) and 2016’s “Bridget Jones’s Baby...

Renee Zellweger admitted returning to the 'Bridget Jones' universe felt "strange".The 55-year-old actress has already played the title character in the 2000 original, 2004’s 'Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason' and 2016’s 'Bridget Jones’s Baby' and admitted it felt strange at first when returning for 'Bridget Jones: Mad About a Boy'.She told Variety: "It was really strange meeting up with the friends again in Bridget’s flat, and sitting in the pub downstairs from Bridget’s flat, and looking at each other thinking, ‘Isn’t this weird?’ It’s so weird that we’ve come together again and it’s become a thing that we’ve been blessed to do again and again. It’s crazy."While Bridget's on-screen love Mark Darcy (played by Colin Firth in previous movies) has been killed off, she has two new hunky leading men to choose from in the new movie,...

Plot: After jumping back into the dating pool, single mother Bridget Jones finds herself caught between a younger man and her son’s science teacher.

Review: Back in 2001, there was some slight controversy surrounding Renee Zellweger being cast as the frumpy, overweight character of Bridget Jones. Known for her svelte physique, the pounds Zellweger gained for the role in the adaptation of the Helen Fielding novel was just the right amount to make the romantic comedy co-starring Hugh Grant and Colin Firth a hit with critics and audiences. The sequels, 2004’s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby, brought in less than their predecessor at the box office, with the second film lambasted by critics. The newest entry in the series, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, has arrived directly to Peacock with a global theatrical release slated for outside of North America. Bringing back...

Universal’s Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy leads new releases in UK and Ireland cinemas this weekend after grossing just shy of £2.1m in previews on Thursday (February 13).

Taking advantage of Valentine’s Day, the fourth instalment in the British romantic comedy franchise screens in 733 venues from today. The £2.1m Thursday total is on par with 2008’s Sex And The City as the highest-grossing single-day preview for a romantic comedy in the territory.

Renee Zellweger returns to screens as the titular Bridget Jones, now a fifty-something widow who decides to head back to work and begin dating again. Hugh Grant...

The fourth installment of the “Bridget Jones” franchise is upon us, and that might mean you need to play a bit of catch-up to remember everything that’s gone down.

In the newest entry, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” we find Bridget as a widowed mother of two, after the tragic passing of Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). But, as always, she finds herself in a bit of a love triangle.

We won’t get into spoilers here, we just want to prep you for it all. And that means making sure you’ve seen all three previous films.

How to Watch the ‘Bridget Jones’ Movies in Order

Though some franchises like to make the order of films apparent by tossing a number on at the end — for example, “Paddington 2” — the “Bridget Jones” series does not operate that way.

So, here’s the official order (both in terms of...

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Bridget Jones comes to the rescue in a season where the holiday of love has so far been dedicated to horror (Heart Eyes) and action (Love Hurts). The latter, a violent Jackie Chan ripoff, is the one Universal chose to release in theaters in the U.S., but the fourth go-round with the delightful romantic comedy Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is the one Universal should have given as a valentine to U.S. exhibition. Instead, it is only being released in theaters internationally, and of course the UK for this very British movie. As for America? Well, you better subscribe to Peacock because inexplicably it is going day-and-date straight to streaming.

Studios still aren’t learning the lessons of last year’s surprise holiday season theatrical hit Anyone But You, or for that matter the Bridget Jones franchise itself, which has...

In the mid-2010s, there was a funny Twitter account called @ModernSeinfeld, which floated ideas for “Seinfeld” episodes as if the show had lasted into the 21st century. (Sample episode: “Jerry’s Gf texts in the movies but acts like it’s okay because she sits in the last row.”) At this point, you could almost imagine devising something similar for Bridget Jones, the winsomely discombobulated London singleton who first appeared, in the novel “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” back in 1996. I’m thinking of potential movie comedies like “Bridget Jones: Love Me Tinder,” “Bridget Jones: Last Brexit to Brooklyn,” and “Bridget Jones’s Old Tweets that Got Her Canceled.”

There’s a Tinder reference in the new Bridget Jones movie, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” along with japes about Harry Styles and lip serum that you buy on the dark web (it turns Bridget’s mouth into a faux-Kardashian swollen...

Oh, Bridget. Ever since she burst onto the scene, first in Helen Fielding’s popular Independent newspaper column in 1995 and bestselling novel a year later, then on the big screen in 2001, Bridget Jones has earned her place in the pantheon of iconic British characters. The first film’s script might have been co-written by romcom king Richard Curtis, but Bridget Jones’s Diary offered an authentic female perspective on the trials and tribulations of finding love at the turn of the millennium. It was goodbye to lovesick, floppy-haired heroes, and hello to giant knickers and Marlboro Lights.

Twenty-four years and a few sequels later, in Mad About The Boy, we find Bridget living on the edge of Hampstead Heath in North London, with two children under ten years old. Beloved husband Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), the ultra-honourable human rights lawyer, has been dead for four years, killed in Sudan. Bridget...

As the world prepares to wave goodbye — at least, for now — to Bridget Jones, maybe no one will miss her more than Renée Zellweger.

“I don’t think I’ll ever let go of Bridget,” the star tells The Hollywood Reporter (no shred of her impeccable British accent discernible — a Texan through and through).

Bridget Jones first landed on our screens nearly 25 years ago in Bridget Jones’s Diary when Zellweger embodied Helen Fielding’s titular protagonist like the character had been written for her. The movie was based on Fielding’s first book of the same name, which was an instant ’90s hit and sold over two million copies worldwide by 2006.

In its 2001 film adaptation, Zellweger fell headfirst into life as a London girl and audiences around the globe fell in love with a verbally incontinent spinster who drinks like a fish, smokes like a chimney and dresses like her mother.

Renée Zellweger is opening up about why she took a break from acting.

In an interview with British Vogue published Wednesday, the Bridget Jones’s Diary star was joined by her co-star Hugh Grant for a conversation. Zellweger reflected on her acting hiatus from 2010 to 2016.

When asked why she did it, Zellweger said, “Because I needed to. I was sick of the sound of my own voice. When I was working, I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, listen to you. Are you sad again, Renée? Oh, is this your mad voice?’ It was a regurgitation of the same emotional experiences.”

While taking a hiatus, Zellweger said she kept busy. “I wrote music and studied international law. I built a house, rescued a pair of older doggies, created a partnership that led to a production company, advocated for and fundraised with a sick friend, and spent a lot of time with family...

As 2025 kicks off, several book to movie adaptations can be expected to move forward to completion, some with release dates already slated for the quarter century marker.

Audiences looking forward to the fourth Bridget Jones film can anticipate streaming it on Peacock on Valentine’s Day in 2025. Other big name films based on books coming to theaters this year include Mickey17, directed by Bong Joon Ho, Edgar Wright’s The Running Man and Josh Boone’s Regretting You, which will likely follow in the footsteps of the Blake Lively-starring It Ends With Us and further pave a path for future Collen Hoover film adaptations like Verity and Reminders of Him.

Several other big screen adaptations of books are arriving on streamers and in theaters this year. Check out the full list of book to movie adaptations below:

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding – February 14, 2025

Renée Zellweger...

A fourth Bridget Jones film is on the way, and some returning faces as well as new famous ones have joined the latest installment in the rom-com franchise.

Renée Zellweger, who first brought the titular character to life in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) will return to reprise her role in the film. The news of the fourth film first arrived in April 2024, and a cast has been rounded out. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is the working title for the upcoming film.

For everything we know about the Bridget Jones 4 release date, cast and plot, read on below:

When will Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy come out?

As of August 2024, the film is slated for a streaming release on Galentine’s Day 2025, exclusively on Peacock.

Who will be in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy?

Alongside Zellweger, returning cast include Emma Thompson, who appeared as Bridget’s Ob/Gyn Dr.

“It’s time to live”. ~ Note in the Diary of Bridget Jones Bridget Jones is now a widow with children she is still raising. Some of her friends think she needs to start to live again so they create an account for her on the social platform, Tinder, and encourage her to dive into the world of dating again. “Bridget Jones 4: Mad About The Boy” premieres exclusively on Peacock on February 13, 2025. Storyline: In 2001, René Zellweger was introduced as a beloved character named Bridget Jones. Since then fans have been following her life journey. This is the 4th movie. For those unfamiliar with these films below is a quick summary: Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001): A 30+ single woman living in London, navigates a love triangle between her boss, Daniel Cleaver, who is charming but unreliable, and a barrister, Mark Darcy, who is uptight but reliable. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason...

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy continues the slice-of-life franchise with a shocking twist, as revealed when the first trailer dropped online. In Bridget Jones 4, the beloved bumbling lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) has passed away, leaving Bridget (Rene Zellweger) a widow and single mother to the couple's two children.

The Bridget Jones movie franchise first began in 2001 with Bridget Jones's Diary, following a 30-something Bridget making her way through life and love in Y2K-era London, based on Helen Fielding's novel of the same name.

The franchise's hilariously offbeat dialogue and dry British humor made the film a smash hit, despite the changes the Bridget Jones movies make to the books. Over 20 years later, the Bridget Jones franchise remains culturally relevant namely, for its ability to showcase a dynamic and realistic female lead with contemporary commentary through Bridget's career as a news producer. As the upcoming film approaches its release on Peacock,...

Fans cannot get enough of Renee Zellweger‘s performance as Bridget Jones!

So much so that the franchise is still going strong two decades later. However, she had to audition for the role like every other actor, and she faced some stiff competition.

The actress landed the titular role in 2001′s beloved British rom-com Bridget Jones’s Diary. Her casting was controversial to some as Renee is American and did not necessarily reflect the character, who is based on a novel.

Despite some of the reservations, Renee proved to be expertly cast in the role, which she has reprised in 2004′s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and 2016′s Bridget Jones’s Baby.

She’s back in action for a fourth project – Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, which arrives in February 2025 and features several other familiar faces.

With the recently released trailer for Mad About the Boy, we decided...

Nearly a decade after the latest sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary hit theaters, the beloved romantic comedy series continues with Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. Based on the eponymous Helen Fielding novel and released in 2001, Bridget Jones's Diary concerns 30-something Bridget (Rene Zellweger) who decides to take control of her life and journals the entire experience. Itself a send-up to Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones's Diary quickly became a classic of the cinematic romance genre, and it didn't take long for the blockbuster to receive a sequel.

2004's Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason again drew inspiration from Helen Fielding's book and continued Bridget's journey. It would take over a decade for 2016's Bridget Jones's Baby to arrive, but the threequel not only brought fans back in droves but also earned high marks from critics compared to its immediate predecessor. Besides being some of Rene Zellweger's best movies,...

While the trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy looks promising, it is still strange to see series villain Hugh Grant return to rom-com territory after a string of darker roles. Early in his career, Hugh Grant largely steered clear of darker fare. His lone early horror role, 1988s The Lair of the White Worm, was a campy, silly supernatural horror-comedy that leaned into the latter over the former. His biggest successes throughout the 90s came in the form of romantic period dramas like Sense and Sensibility and rom-coms. Grant starred in a lot of classic rom-coms.

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Hugh Grant's new horror movie Heretic proves that he should continue following his career shift that began in 2017 with Paddington 2.

Before Hugh Grants villain performances became his late-career forte, the actor starred...

The Bridget Joness Diary movies were adapted from Helen Fieldings novels, and they made some significant changes to the source material. The movies follow the title character, Bridget, a woman in her thirties struggling with her love life. So far, only three books have been adapted into films. However, it's been confirmed Bridget Jones: Mad About That Boy will be released in 2025.

It's not uncommon for films to make alterations to their source material to help tell their story. Despite the changes the Bridget Jones movies make to the book, a huge part of Bridget's story remained unchanged. The Bridget Jones movies managed to capture the essence of the beloved book character despite the changes made to the source material.

Some Characters From The Books Weren't Included In The Films Gary, Jamie, And Bridget's Grandma Weren't In The Movies

A few characters from the Bridget Jones novels were not included in the film adaptation.

Renee Zellweger is back as Bridget Jones in Mad About The Boy, and here’s the trailer for the new film.

The long awaited fourth film is called Mad About The Boy, adapted from Fielding’s 2013 novel of the same name, and it’s now far away at all. As well as a returning Renee Zellweger, the cast also includes Isla Fisher, Josette Simon, Nico Parker and Leila Farzad.

Michael Morris directed the film from a screenplay by Fielding, with contributions from screenwriters Abi Morgan and Dan Mazer.

The first trailer for it is with us, and it looks like this:

Helen Fielding’s big knicker wearing, perennial singleton Bridget Jones began life as a character in a series of columns in The Independent, which became a bestselling series of novels. They were soon adapted into hugely successful films, with Renee Zellweger starring in 2001’s Bridget Jones’ Diary, 2004’s Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason...

"If you don't shag him, I will." Universal Pictures and Peacock have revealed the official trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the next romcom sequel from this long-running franchise starring Renée Zellweger. Bridget Jones first blasted onto bookshelves in Helen Fielding's literary phenomenon Bridget Jones's Diary, which became a global bestseller & blockbuster film in 2001. As a single career woman living in London, Bridget Jones not only introduced the world to her romantic adventures, but added "Singletons," "Smug-Marrieds" and "f---wittage" into the global lexicon. Then came the sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) followed by Bridget Jones's Baby (2016). In this next one, Mad About the Boy, Jones gets on Tinder and meets a dashing young man who woos her. The full ensemble cast has plenty of old & new faces: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Isla Fisher, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, James Callis,...

Two-time Academy Award winner Renée Zellweger returns to the role that established a romantic-comedy heroine for the ages, a woman whose inimitable approach to life and love redefined an entire film genre.

But in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (Oscar winner Colin Firth) was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. She’s now a single mother to 9-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant).

Pressured by her Urban Family —Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings (Oscar winner Emma Thompson) — to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she...

Universal Pictures and Peacock have released the official trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, which will premiere on Peacock on February 13, 2025. The movie will be released in international theaters on February 12.

Two-time Academy Award winner Renée Zellweger returns to the role that established a romantic-comedy heroine for the ages, a woman whose inimitable approach to life and love redefined an entire film genre

Bridget Jones first blasted onto bookshelves in Helen Fielding’s literary phenomenon Bridget Jones’s Diary, which became a global bestseller and a blockbuster film. As a single career woman living in London, Bridget Jones not only introduced the world to her romantic adventures but added “Singletons,” “Smug-Marrieds,” and “f—wittage” into the global lexicon.

Bridget’s ability to triumph despite adversity led her to marry top lawyer Mark Darcy finally and to become the mother of their baby boy. Happiness at last.

But in...

Renee Zellweger is back in “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” the fourth and final movie in the rom-com series that’s coming to Peacock on Feb. 13.

“Mad About the Boy” is based on the third novel in Helen Fielding’s “Bridget Jones” book series. In addition Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson have both returned to reprise their roles as Daniel Cleaver and Dr. Rawlings. Other returning cast members include Jim Broadbent, Sarah Solemani, Sally Phillips, Shirley Henderson, James Callis, Neil Pearson, Joanna Scanlan and Celia Imrie. They will be joined by newcomers Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, Isla Fisher, Nico Parker, Josette Simon and Leila Farzad.

The official plot synopsis reads: “Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (Colin Firth) was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. She’s now a single mother to 9-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo,...

Paging all singletons and smug-marrieds!

Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) is back once again — and now, in “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” she’s a widow. Yes, for those who don’t keep up with the novels by Helen Fielding, Mr. Darcy is now dead. It’s been four years, so single mum Bridget is ready for some sex. Ding dong!

Joining the cast of suitors for the fourth go-round are Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall (“One Day”), in addition to a returning Hugh Grant. There’s also at least a cameo appearance by Mark Darcy himself (Colin Firth).

Per a press release: “Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. She’s now a single mother to 9-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from...

Bridget’s back, and she’s still trying to figure things out.

The first trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy has been released, and Renée Zellweger’s Bridget is still looking for love as she comes to terms with the tragedy of losing Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). Yep, you read that correctly, Darcy is no more and the trailer serves up the bad news straight away.

Still, the only way is up for our Bridget as she gets on with life, and the prospect of not one but two possible romances. There’s the hunky and age-appropriate Mr. Wallaker (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a teacher at Bridget’s children’s school and the wild card of Roxster (Leo Woodall), the youthful bit of rough that should be a red flag.

‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’

Mad About the Boy is the fourth film in the franchise and follows Bridget Jones’s Diary...

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Nov 1-3)Total gross to dateWeek 1. The Wild Robot (Universal) £2.2m £11.7m 3 2. Venom: The Last Dance (Sony) £2.2m £9.1m 2 3. Heretic (Efd) £1.5m £2m 1 4. Small Things Like These (Lionsgate) £889,613 £889,613 1 5. Smile 2 (Paramount) £600,000 £5.5m 3

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Hugh Grant horror Heretic and Cillian Murphy drama Small Things Like These both made strong starts at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, as Universal animation The Wild Robot retook the top spot from Venom: The Last Dance.

The Wild Robot posted an impressive 12% increase with £2.174m, boosted by a 54% increase on the Friday during the half-term holidays. Chris...

As Bridget Jones prepares to return to the big screen next year, a whole new generation is identifying with the beloved films’ literary source material.

Author Helen Fielding recently opened up about her newfound fanbase at the Cheltenham Literature Festival and how the titular character has become even more relevant to friends of her 18-year-old daughter, amid the age of TikTok and the Body Positivity Movement.

“What’s good now is that there’s a new audience for Bridget that’s young, that’s Gen Z,” she said, according to BBC. “I’m really happy when 18-year-olds and 20-year-olds come with their books and talk to me about it and say that they find it comforting to laugh at these things.”

Fielding added, “I spent the last two years surrounded by teenage girls, because they all came to my house, and I can see what they’ve got in common with Bridget.

Although he couldn’t make it to her baby shower, Hugh Grant is back in Bridget Jones’ life.

The Golden Globe winner will return for the upcoming fourth installment of Renée Zellweger‘s romantic comedy franchise, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, after carving out a spot for his womanizing character Daniel Cleaver.

He recently explained to Vanity Fair why he opted not to reprise the role for 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby. “I really couldn’t fit my character in—he just didn’t belong, so I stepped aside,” he said.

The third installment featured Zellweger’s titular character unexpectedly pregnant at 40, trying to determine whether the father is her ex Mark (Colin Firth) or handsome American stranger Jack (Patrick Dempsey). Although Grant did not return for that movie, Bridget attends a memorial for her ex, who is presumed dead after a plane crash.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,...

Hugh Grant hints that despite his novel character's fate, Colin Firth could make an appearance in some form as Mark Darcy in the upcoming Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy. The fourth entry in the romantic comedy series based upon the novels of Helen Fielding, the 2025 movie is based on the 2013 novel of the same name. Grant will make his return as Daniel Cleaver 20 years after his last appearance in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, with 2016's Bridget Jones' Baby omitting him as presumed dead due to an off-screen plane crash until its final moments.

With Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy set to release on Valentine's Day 2025, Grant opened up to Screen Rant about the likelihood of Firth's return as he attended the premiere of his upcoming horror feature, Heretic, at the Toronto International Film Festival. Despite his absence from the initially announced cast, Grant seems certain that...

Zellweger's rom-com legacy goes beyond Bridget Jones, with iconic roles in movies like Jerry Maguire. From New In Town to Miss Potter, Zellweger shines playing relatable characters in varying classics. Zellweger's knack for comedic timing and portraying real characters makes her performances appealing and aspirational.

Rene Zellweger made her mark on romance movies with her iconic role in Bridget Jones's Diary, but that doesn't mean her other classic projects should be overlooked. Throughout her career, Zellweger has established herself as a romantic lead to great acclaim, which has lent itself to all her performances. Zellweger might have started in the romance genre, but she's contributed greatly to movies of all genres. She was in one of the best movie musicals of the 21st century in Chicago and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Judy Garland in Judy in 2019.

A large part of what distinguishes Zellweger and her...

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy is currently filming, and a fresh piece of casting news has come to light. Possible spoiler.

Spoilers for the Bridget Jones films lie ahead.

Helen Fielding’s big knicker wearing, perennial singleton Bridget Jones, as played by Renee Zellweger, has headlined three feature films so far – 2001’s Bridget Jones’ Diary, 2004’s Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason and 2016’s Bridget Jones’ Baby.

The first film followed Bridget as she struck up a relationship with the smarmy, charming Daniel Cleaver, played by Hugh Grant, not realising that her perfect match is Mark Darcy. Darcy of course was played, in an inspired piece of casting, by Colin Firth – the pathetic fist fights between the two men stand as highlights of both films.

The second sees Bridget once again taken in by Cleaver’ charms in Thailand, before she ends up in prison. The third film sees Bridget end up pregnant,...

Buzz Cason, the Nashville singer, songwriter and producer best known for “Everlasting Love,” the buoyant Motown-style pop song covered numerous times and appearing in many films since Robert Knight recorded the original in 1967, died June 16 at his home in Franklin, Tennessee. He was 84.

His death was announced by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. A cause of death was not specified.

“Everlasting Love,” with its impossibly catchy and immediately recognizable chorus that begins “Open up your eyes/Then you’ll realize/Here I stand with my everlasting love,” has made the charts in various versions, most notably Carl Carlton’s 1974 cover that hinted at the imminent arrival of disco. In the U.K., the song was a #1 hit in 1968 by London-based pop band Love Affair.

Other artists who have covered the song, written by Cason with writing partner Mac Gayden, include Gloria Estefan, Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet , U2,...

Renée Zellweger will don the English accent for the revisit to Bridget Jones’ world. In the upcoming fourth movie in the franchise, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the plot is said to “pick up with Bridget in her early fifties, as she navigates the challenges of modern life while juggling the responsibilities of motherhood.” Along with Zellweger, returning players from the past films are set to include Hugh Grant, and Emma Thompson.

Variety has now reported that the new installment has added some notable names to the cast. Isla Fisher will be joining the comedy along with Nico Parker (How to Train Your Dragon), Josette Simon (Anatomy of a Scandal) and Leila Farzad (Black Mirror: Joan is Awful). Additionally, Jim Broadbent and Gemma Jones are set to return as Bridget’s mum and dad. Sarah Solemani, Sally Phillips, Shirley Henderson and James Callis will be coming back to reprise...

Hugh Grant has been expanding on his career beyond his famous rom-coms, having starred in last year’s special effects-laden big-budget films Wonka and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Grant will be returning to his popular franchise with Renée Zellweger for the recently announced upcoming fourth film in the Bridget Jones movies, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. The plot is said to “pick up with Bridget in her early fifties, as she navigates the challenges of modern life while juggling the responsibilities of motherhood.”

Grant recently spoke with the publication People as he teases the next installment in the series. The English actor stated,

It is very moving as well as funny. It’s partly based on Helen Fielding’s experiences of bringing up two children by herself after her husband died. And so Bridget is bringing up two kids and wondering whether she should ever go back to dating.

Twenty years ago this month, the fairy tale-like romantic comedy “13 Going on 30” starring Jennifer Garner made its way into cinemas. The actress played Jenna Rink, a socially awkward soon-to-be 13-year-old who quickly realizes that she “hates being 13.” She makes a birthday wish to be “thirty, flirty and thriving.” With the little help of some wishing dust, she wakes up the next morning to discover that her wish has come true.

It was a defining moment in Garner’s early career. Her role as Sydney Bristow in the television action thriller series “Alias” had made her a breakout star (including at awards shows) just a few years earlier. She won the Golden Globe for Best Drama Actress in 2002 and had competed again in 2003 and earlier in 2004. She had also been nominated for two Emmy Awards one Screen Actors Guild trophy.

While Garner already had a number of film credits on her resume,...

Hugh Grant is speaking out about the upcoming fourth Bridget Jones movie, and unfortunately, seemed to confirm some upsetting news for fans in the process.

If you don’t know, Hugh co-starred alongside Renee Zellweger in the first two Bridget Jones films: 2001′s Bridget Jones’s Diary and 2004′s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. He opted not to return for 2016′s Bridget Jones’s Baby and it was inferred that his character, Daniel Cleaver, had died in a plane crash before a little newspaper headline tease at the end that he was actually found alive.

Now, Hugh is revealing a few details about the film, which will hit Peacock over Valentine’s Day in 2025.

Keep reading to find out more…

Hugh told Et, “I’ll tell you what, I think this script for the fourth Bridget is the best one of the four. And, in fact, one of the best scripts...

Bridget Jones 4 will be based on the book Mad About the Boy, where Bridget is a widow and explores dating in her 50s. Mark Darcy's death in the movie is necessary for Bridget's story to move forward, exploring new challenges. Hugh Grant's return as Daniel Cleaver poses a risk of repeating old, tired storylines in Bridget Jones 4.

A fourth Bridget Jones movie is officially happening with most of the main cast back except Colin Firth, which raises concerns about the story and Bridget herself. In 2001, the world met Bridget Jones (Reneé Zellweger) in Sharon Maguire’s rom-com Bridget Jones’s Diary, based on Helen Fielding's novels. Bridget Jones’s Diary follows 32-year-old Bridget, a single woman working and living in London who decides to change her life and becomes determined to improve herself and look for love. Bridget succeeds, but she also ends up in a love triangle with...