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Hollywood star Renée Zellweger, best known for her role as Bridget Jones in the beloved romantic comedy film series, could be on the verge of making history with the same iconic character. The actress, who first portrayed Bridget in the 2001 adaptation of Helen Fielding’s novel, recently reprised the role in the fourth installment of the franchise.

And new reports suggest that the most recent addition to the franchise could earn her a unique and historic distinction, something no actor has reportedly achieved before.

Peacock submits Renée Zellweger’s Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy for Emmys

Released exclusively on Peacock earlier this year, Renée Zellweger’s Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy has officially made its Emmy submissions, including for Outstanding Television Movie and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, as per Deadline.

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Exclusive: Mad About the Boy, the fourth installment in the Bridget Jones film series, was released exclusively on Peacock in the U.S., making it a TV movie eligible for Emmy Awards.

The sequel to the 2016 Bridget Jones’ Baby has set its Emmy submissions, including Outstanding Television Movie and star Renée Zellweger who is looking to make awards history by earning both an Oscar and Emmy nomination for the same role, the endearing eponymous British heroine who journals her search for love.

Zellweger landed the first of her four Oscar nominations to date (including two wins) for the first installment in the franchise, the 2001 Bridget Jones’ Diary. She is being submitted by Peacock for Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

One of Zellweger’s leading men in the first two Bridget Jones movies, Hugh Grant, also made a return in Mad About the Boy, reprising his...

Patrick Dempsey is returning to broadcast television as the lead star in Fox's new thriller series, Memory of a Killer. Dempsey is best known for playing Dr. Derek Shepherd, aka "McDreamy," in the early seasons of the long-running ABC series Grey's Anatomy until his departure in season 11 in 2015, which also marked his last network television show until now.

Per Deadline's report, Dempsey is set to lead Fox's straight-to-series Memory of a Killer, where he will play a hitman battling with early-onset Alzheimer's. The series, penned by Ed Whitmore and Tracey Malone, takes inspiration from the 2003 Belgian film De Zaak Alzheimer, previously remade into Memory by director Martin Campbell and with Liam Neeson playing the lead role.

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Memory of a Killer marks Dempsey's first network television show after Grey's Anatomy. However, the star...

This article is part of ScreenRant's Exclusive Summer 2025 Movie Preview. Keep an eye out for the full feature this week!

In a new image from Deep Cover, three actors use their improv skills to go undercover as London gangsters. Directed by Tom Kingsley, the upcoming crime comedy stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom, and Nick Mohammed as the three improv actors in question, who work with the police in order to take down criminals in the English capital. As seen in the Deep Cover trailer, the three stars will be joined by Sean Bean, Paddy Considine, and Ian McShane, with hijinks ensuing as the comedic performers are forced to think on their feet when faced with real danger.

Ahead of the film's release in June, ScreenRant presents a new image from Deep Cover, showing Howard, Bloom, and Mohammed Kat, Marlon, and Hugh, respectively. The image shows the three stars...

Updated: Fox has greenlit the drama series “Memory of a Killer” for the 2025-2026 season with Patrick Dempsey set for the lead role. The announcement came ahead of Fox’s upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on Monday.

The new series is said to be inspired by the Belgian film “De Zaak Alzheimer,” aka “La Memoire Du Tueur.” Per the official logline, the show is a “dramatic thriller about a hitman (Dempsey) who develops early onset Alzheimer’s.”

“’Memory of a Killer’ is a propulsive series with a noisy, unrelenting character hook that immediately grabbed our attention,” said Michael Thorn, president of Fox Television Network. “In the spirit of ’24’ and ‘House,’ we’re introducing a daring new signature Fox lead, a complicated antihero facing unimaginable danger. We’re excited to bring this gripping new thriller to life alongside our long-standing partners at Warner Bros.”

The series is produced...

Light spoilers ahead for “Another Simple Favor”

Paul Feig has no shortage of beloved films in his catalogue, but one thing those films have never had is a sequel. Now, with “Another Simple Favor,” the director has finally made his first — though he definitely “kept trying to chicken out on it.”

Now streaming on Prime Video, “Another Simple Favor” comes seven years after its predecessor “A Simple Favor” first hit theaters, and reunites stars Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively as Stephanie Smothers and Emily Nelson respectively, for another dark, comedic murder mystery. This time, the story goes international, bringing the women to Capri.

Given that the original film grossed nearly $100 million worldwide at the box office on a $20 million budget, you’d be forgiven for thinking that a sequel was inevitable, and being surprised it didn’t come sooner. But, according to Feig, crafting a follow-up was “challenging and terrifying,...

Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom and Nick Mohammed try to save the world with improv in the trailer for the action-comedy movie Deep Cover.

Director Tom Kingsley’s feature is set to begin streaming via Amazon Prime Video on June 12. Paddy Considine, Sonoya Mizuno, Ian McShane and Sean Bean round out the cast.

Deep Cover centers on Kat (Howard), an improv teacher recruited by an undercover cop (Bean) to enlist two of her students (Bloom and Mohammed) to impersonate criminals as they try to stop crime in London.

“You were so good,” Bloom assures Mohammed during a tense moment. “You committed. It was inspiring.”

Later, Howard scolds Bloom by saying, “I told you not to escalate.” He replies, “It’s where the scene went.”

Kingsley (Doctor Who) helmed the film from a script credited to Derek Connolly, Colin Trevorrow, Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen. Trevorrow, Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald serve as producers.

RankFilm (origin)DistributorApr 25-27 grossTotalWeek 1 A Minecraft Movie (US) Warner Bros £2.5m £51.7m 4 2 Sinners (US) Warner Bros £2.4m £7.3m 2 3 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith (US) Disney £1.8m £1.8m 1 4 The Accountant 2 (US)

Warner Bros £906,660 £906,660 1 5 Until Dawn (US) Sony £566,028 £566,028 1

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A Minecraft Movie held off the excellent second weekend of Sinners for another Warner Bros one-two at the UK-Ireland box office.

Minecraft added £2.5m on its fourth weekend – a 53% drop that brought it to £51.7m. Extending its lead as the highest-grossing release of 2025, it has now entered the top 50 highest-grossing films of all time in the UK & Ireland,...

RankFilm (origin)DistributorApr 11-13 grossTotalWeek 1 A Minecraft Movie (US) Warner Bros £7.2m £31m 2 2 The Amateur (US) Disney £1.1m £1.1m 1 3 Six: The Musical (US) Universal £915,149 £3.9m 2 4 Andre Rieu’s 75th Birthday Celebration: The Dream Continues (Neth)

Piece Of Magic £595,168 £595,168 1 5 Snow White (US) Disney £411,079 £9.1m 4

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A Minecraft Movie has built a sturdy £31m total at the UK-Ireland box office, after adding £7.2m on its second weekend for Warner Bros.

The film fell 52% from its stellar opening session; but still put in a strong performance to become the second-highest-grossing release of the year after fewer than 10 days in cinemas.

UK-Ireland top five, Apr 4-6, 2025 RankFilm (origin)DistributorApr 4-6 grossTotalWeek 1 A Minecraft Movie (US) Warner Bros £15m £15m 1 2 Six The Musical (US) Universal £2.1m £2.1m 1 3 Snow White (US)

Disney £667,761 £8m 3 4 Death Of A Unicorn (US)

Efd £458,031 £485,853 1 5 A Working Man (US-uk)

Warner Bros £330,209 £1.4m 2

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Warner Bros’ A Minecraft Movie has breathed new life into the UK-Ireland box office with an outstanding £15m opening weekend – the biggest ever for a videogame adaptation.

Playing in 675 cinemas, the film took an astonishing £22,169-per-cinema average. Both of those figures are the biggest in the territory since Barbie, which opened to...

UK-Ireland top five Mar 28-30, 2025 RankFilm (origin)DistributorMar 28-30 grossTotalWeek 1 Snow White (US) Disney £2m £6.8m 2 2 L2: Empuraan(India)

Rft Films/2G Entertainments £764,499 £1.4m 1 3 A Working Man(US-uk) Warner Bros £658,134 £1.2m 1 4 Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (UK-Fr-us)

Universal £562,233 £544,000 7 5 Novocaine (US)

Paramount £441,777 £3.1m 1

Disney’s Snow White live-action remake topped the UK-Ireland box office for a second weekend, with A Working Man starring Jason Statham as the top new title.

Directed by Marc Webb and starring Rachel Zegler, Snow White added just over £2m on its second session – a 48% drop that brought it to £6.8m. It is down on...

UK-Ireland top five Mar 28-30, 2025 RankFilm (origin)DistributorMar 28-30 grossTotalWeek 1 Snow White (US) Disney £2m £6.8m 2 2 A Working Man (US-uk)

Warner Bros £658,134 £658,134 1 3 Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (UK-Fr-us)

Universal £561,120 £45.5m 7 4 Novocaine (US)

Paramount £442,000 £544,000 1 5 Black Bag (US)

Universal £421,458 £3.1m 3

Disney’s Snow White live-action remake topped the UK-Ireland box office for a second weekend, with A Working Man starring Jason Statham as the top new title.

Directed by Marc Webb and starring Rachel Zegler, Snow White added just over £2m on its second session – a 48% drop that brought it to £6.8m. It is down on the £16.2m of 2023’s The Little Mermaid,...

UK-Ireland top five Mar 21-23 Rank Film (origin) Distributor Mar 21-23 gross Total Week 1 Snow White (US) Disney £3.9m £3.9m 1 2 Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy(UK-Fr-us)

Universal £772,874 £44.6m 6 3 Black Bag(US) Universal £734,932 £2.2m 2 4 Mickey 17 (US-s Kor) Warner Bros £724,113 £5.9m 3 5 The Alto Knights (US) Warner Bros £386,698 £386,698 1

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Disney’s latest foray into live-action remakes, Snow White, has started off with a modest £3.9m at the UK-Ireland box office.

Marc Webb directs the live-action musical re-imagining of Disney’s 1937 Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs animation, which stars Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, and was released at 651 sites,...

UK-Ireland top five Mar 14-16 RankFilm (origin)DistributorMar 14-16 grossTotalWeek 1 Mickey 17(US) Warner Bros £1.24m £4.5m 2 2 Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy(UK-Fr-us) Universal £1.2m £42.9m 5 3 Black Bag(US) Universal £897,744 £913,877 1 4 Marching Powder(UK) True Brit £563,897 £2.1m 2 5 Captain America: Brave New World(US) Disney £395,000 £17.4m 5

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Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson retained the UK-Ireland box office lead on its second weekend as Steven Soderbergh thriller Black Bag started in third place.

Warner Bros’ Mickey 17 added £1.24m on its second weekend – a 41.6% drop. Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi has £4.5m in total – down on the huge...

Updated: A generally quiet weekend at the international box office, amid holdover play for the major studio titles and the start of staggered release for newer entries, nevertheless included another milestone for Chinese phenomenon Ne Zha 2 which has moved up to become the 5th highest-grossing movie ever worldwide.

The Ne Zha 2 total in China through Sunday, according to Maoyan, is a little over Rmb 14.86B ($2.054B using today’s exchange rate). Adding grosses in excess of $31M from markets outside China, and the global total rises to more than $2.085B. That places the animated sequel just above Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($2.071B) on the all-time global chart.

In China alone, Maoyan is projecting that NZ2 will final at Rmb 15.2B ($2.1B). Ex-China rollout continues in Indonesia on March 21 while several European releases are ahead as well as Japan.

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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy has helped the overall quadrilogy outgross an even bigger franchise. The new movie is the fourth installment in the romantic comedy series, which follows the life and romantic travails of Renée Zellweger's title character. The Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy cast sees Zellweger, Hugh Grant, and Colin Firth returning alongside newcomers Leo Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor. It is a Peacock exclusive in the United States, but its international theatrical release has seen it gross more than $100 million worldwide, making it the third highest-grossing English-language movie of 2025 at the time of writing.

Per The Numbers, over the course of its fifth weekend in theaters, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy has pushed the overall four-film rom-com franchise to a cumulative gross of $856.6 million worldwide. This has caused it to rise up the overall chart of the highest-grossing film franchises of all time, hitting No.

Bridget Jones Mad About The Boy Worldwide Box Office: Hits A Major Milestone(Photo Credit – YouTube)

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is the fourth installment in the Bridget Jones franchise, which came out last month. Although the film has not been released in the United States, it crossed its first major milestone worldwide. Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, and Emma Thompson reprised their roles in the latest installment. Keep scrolling for the deets.

The rom-com by Michael Morris is the sequel to Bridget Jones’s Baby, which was released in 2016. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, Isla Fisher, Josette Simon, Nico Parker, and Leila Farzad joined the existing cast in crucial roles. The film enjoys an 89% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. According to them, it is a “bittersweet romp about new beginnings with another sparkling turn by Renée Zellweger. Mad About the Boy gracefully closes the book on Bridget Jones’ diary.

UK-Ireland top five Mar 7-9 RankFilm (origin)DistributorMar 7-9 grossTotalWeek 1 Mickey 17 (US) Warner Bros £2.13m £2.1m 1 2 Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (UK-Fr-us) Universal £2.05m £40.4m 4 3 Marching Powder (UK) True Brit £1.1m £1.1m 1 4 Captain America: Brave New World (US) Disney £614,000 £16.8m 4 5 Dog Man (US) Universal £373,654 £12.5m 5

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Fantasy adventure Mickey 17 topped the UK-Ireland box office on its opening weekend, ending the three-week run atop the chart of Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.

Mickey 17 opened to £2.1m for Warner Bros, from 668 sites at a £3,182 location average. That is the biggest opening for a...

The Bridget Jones franchise has a long history, starting all the way back in 2001. And it has won over many fans over the years. No wonder there was excitement for the fourth entrant in the franchise. But the result might have exceeded even the filmmaker’s expectations.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy hit the theatres back in February 2025. Outside the US that is. Domestically, it was directly released on Peacock (a move that the people in charge might be regretting now). In the international market, it had to deal with competition from bigwigs like Captain America: Brave New World. But it seems like it has held its own.

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February proved another positive month at the UK-Ireland box office, with takings up 20% on the same period of last year.

The four-week period from February 7 to March 6, 2025, brought in £100.7m, 20% up on the £83.8m recorded in the equivalent period in February 2024,according to figures from Comscore.

Total box office for 2025 to date is at £195m, up 15% on the £169.1m from the same period in 2024; and up 21% on the equivalent period in 2023. These are encouraging figures for UK-Ireland distributors and exhibitors still searching for solid ground after the disruption of the pandemic, followed by the US actors and writers strikes.

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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.

It’s a new month, and that means new movies on streaming. There are bountiful picks on everything from Netflix to Max to Prime Video to Apple TV+ this month, including a new horror-thriller starring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy, a bevy of romantic films for Valentine’s Day and some of the best films of the last few years newly added to your favorite streaming service.

Check out our picks for the best new movies streaming in February 2025 below.

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Happy Madison isn’t just for Adam Sandler comedies. Sometimes it’s responsible for Amy Schumer comedies too! In “Kinda Pregnant,” Schumer stars as “a woman who gets so jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy that she starts to wear a fake baby bump of her own,” according to Netflix. The movie was directed by Tyler Spindel, who happens...

Worldwide box office: February 21-23 RankFilm (distributor)3-day (world)Cume (world)3-day (int’l)Cume (int’l)Territories 1. Ne Zha 2(various) $156.7m $1.80bn $153.6m $1.79bn 5 2. Captain America: Brave New World(Disney) $63.5m $289.4m $35.3m $148.2m 53 3. Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy(various) $21.0m $72.6m $21m $72.6m 75 4. The Monkey(various) $20.9m $20.9m $6.7m $6.7m 42 5. Chhaava(various) $17.8m $54.1m $16.3m $49.3m 22 6. Paddington In Peru(Sony) $14.2m $150.3m $7.7m $125m 56 7. Detective Chinatown 1900(various) $11.9m $456.0m $11.9m $454.9m 9 8. Dog Man(Universal) $9.8m $105.0m $3.9m $26.2m 53 9. Mufasa: The Lion King(Disney) $6.9m $698.7m $4.4m $453.3m 53 10. Dragon(various) $4.8m $4.8m $4.2m $4.2m 13

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“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.

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Over the Valentine's Day weekend of 2025,Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy was released. The fourth entry in the popular Bridget Jones film franchise, which began in 2001 with the critically acclaimed Bridget Jones's Diary, landed in theaters worldwide on Feb. 13, 2025... except in the United States. If you lived in North America and wanted to see Bridget Jones's latest adventure, you couldn't see it on the big screen. Instead, the movie was released exclusively on the Universal streaming service Peacock. There is a good chance you might not have known there was a new Bridget Jones film, as the movie was seemingly dumped onto streaming with little fanfare.

While the idea of releasing Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy over Valentine's Day weekend on streaming, so fans could watch it under some covers at...

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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...

Love, laughs, and labor pains — these movies prove pregnancy is the ultimate plot twist.

I watched the new Amy Schumer comedy,“Kinda Pregnant” with my wife last night and it was (on the whole) a good time. First, it’s actually funny and second, it pays off the high concept in all the ways you want it to (more on this shortly). I love romantic comedies, and so it got me thinking about all the other rom-com pregnancy movies out there. Not that many get made (Hollywood is a male-dominated industry), but there are some excellent movies among the ones that did. Here’s my list of the top 7 pregnancy rom-coms you can stream right now.

Top 7 pregnancy rom-com movies you can stream right now

No. 7: ‘What To Expect When You’re Expecting’

No. 6: ‘Kinda Pregnant’

No. 5: ‘Babes’

No. 4: ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’

No. 3: ‘Baby Mama’

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“When people asked me, ‘What would be the thing that you want to do?,’ it’s always been to do a rom-com with Working Title,” “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” costume designer Molly Emma Rowe told IndieWire during a recent interview. “So to do the rom-com with them was really… I was like, ‘Ok, the manifestation of that went really well, I have to say.'”

Yes, Bridget is back — and in a more melancholy offering than the previous three installments. There is still plenty of slapstick and romantic entanglements, but life for Bridget hasn’t been smooth since she reunited with Mark Darcy at the end of “Bridget Jones’ Baby.”

Now four years widowed, Bridget finds herself at a crossroads when the film begins, until she makes the choice to do more than survive. She’s going to live! She promptly meets two new romantic entanglements — the younger...

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

Credit: Comscore.

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...

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy director Michael Morris faced the challenge of aligning the titular character readers and viewers know and love with a major tragedy in her life followed by her resilience to keep living, not just surviving.

The fourth film introduces two new love interests — Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Mr. Walliker and Leo Woodall’s Roxster — into Bridget’s orbit as she gets through the early period of grief following the death of her husband Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) in between Bridget Jones’ Baby (2016) and Mad About the Boy.

“The loss of someone unlosable in your life is, sadly, just something that so many of us have to deal with,” Morris said. “Because of the nature of that, of where [Bridget] is, because the world feels maybe a little bit unstructured in some in some ways that make us anxious these days, I think it’s important for the movie,...

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,...

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy celebrates Valentine’s Day by ranking No. 1 on Peacock. Renée Zellweger returns to the small screen as the romantic comedy’s titular character for the first time since Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016) and discovers the "casual cruelty" of being ghosted by a new lover. However, despite nearly a decade having passed, the latest sequel in the franchise is scoring with both critics and audiences, even though the film has killed off Bridget’s husband and fan-favorite Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). Book lovers know that Mark also died in author Helen Fielding's 2013 novel of the same name.

Peacock's Mad About the Boy currently registers a “Certified Fresh” 85% on the Tomatometer against 80 reviews posted by the critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Fans are also enjoying Mrs. Darcy's return to the dating world, as evidenced by the rom-com’s Popcornmeter rating (formerly the Rt audience score) of 83%. This time around,...

It’s been nine years since we last caught up with the lovely Bridget Jones, and surprisingly, that’s not even the longest gap between films in the series. But, according to franchise star Renée Zellweger, those extended gaps are key to the story.

Hitting Peacock on Friday, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” marks the fourth installment in the beloved franchise, and catches up with Bridget Jones as she navigates life now as a widow and mother of two. Yes, sadly, Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy is dead in this film.

Clearly, a lot has happened since we’ve last seen her, and for Zellweger, having that much life transpire between films is “essential.”

“I love it. I love the time in between,” she told TheWrap. “Because, well, like all of us, we change, and every reconnection with her in the different chapters of her life is a rediscovery,...

The Bridget Jones film series has been going on for over a decade, with the first installment, Bridget Jones's Diary, premiering in 2001. Now, a fourth installment, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, is officially out.

The film series, led by Renée Zellweger in the title role, has received mixed reviews, with some titles more popular than others. However, the franchise as a whole has been a major commercial success. The latest entry, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy has also set a record on Rotten Tomatoes, receiving the best reviews in the entire franchise.

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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy debuted with an approval score 87% from the critics, and, as more reviews came in, the score went up to 89%, with a Certified Fresh badge out of 61 reviews.

Everyone's favorite rom-com icon has returned to the screen "just as she is," but just where is she on her journey? Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boyis the fourth installment in the Bjcu, following the original Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), and Bridget Jones's Baby (2016). The timeline also canonically follows a chronological order, so Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy sees Bridget at her oldest and wisest.

The reviews thus far reflect thiswith a glowing positivity, saying it is "the best Bridget Jones sequel yet." This iteration of the beloved British heroine's journey is the series' first streaming exclusive, available only on Peacock until it releases in theaters internationally (besides America) today, Valentine's Day. What imperative plot information does Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy contribute to the general Bridget Jones lore, and where exactly does it fall in relation to the other movies?

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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...

It’s 3:00pm Pst and I’m calling it: “Bridget Jones” is one of the best movie franchises. It’s not an uninterrupted victory parade of total success, since “The Edge of Reason” was more like a speed bump than a story. But for the last 2.5 decades, these movies have grown out of a pitch perfect romantic comedy classic and into a sweet and enduring saga of life going on, and on, as Bridget Jones — played beautifully by Renée Zellweger — discovers that every ending is another beginning, every tragedy is surmountable, and that life is always worth living when you’re armed with hope and good humor.

That streak continues with “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” a movie that finds the title character middle-aged and widowed with two children and no direction. These movies always remind us how easy it is to lose direction, and how important it...

Though many anticipated 2016’s ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’ to be the final installment into this sweet and hilarious little franchise, Bridget is back for one final round, as the team closes off her story for good. After the tragic loss of Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), Bridget (Renee Zellweger) navigates life as a single mother to two young children, balancing work, family, and a surprising new romance. Though this movie may not be entirely necessary, the bundles of laughs, terrific performances, expert exploration of grief and motherhood and many nods to its three predecessors not only prove that Mad About the Boy is a worthy entry into the franchise, but one that completes this story perfectly.

We pick up with Bridget and her two children, Mabel and Billy, just four years after the death of their husband and father Mark Darcy. Billy has fond memories of his father, whilst Mabel is near...

It’s time to catch up with Bridget Jones once again and, as always, life is pretty different for her.

In “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” now streaming on Peacock, we find Bridget (Renée Zellweger) a mother of two and, sadly, a widow. Her husband died four years ago on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan.

But, in true Bridget Jones fashion, she’s got two new men in her life. And you’ll probably recognize both of them.

Here are the key players in “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.”

Renée Zellweger in “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” (Peacock) Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger)

Renée Zellweger returns as Bridget Jones, after playing her in the first three films. The two-time Oscar winning actress is of course also known for starring in “Chicago,” “Judy,” “Jerry Maguire,” “Bee Movie” and more.

Colin Firth and Renée Zellweger in “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy...

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...

Renée Zellweger returns as Bridget, navigating love, loss, and motherhood in the latest sequel.

Bridget Jones is back and ready to charm us all over again! In “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” Renée Zellweger returns as Bridget, now navigating life as a single mom after the loss of her husband Mark Darcy (Colin Firth noooooo). Juggling work, raising kids, and reentering the dating scene, Bridget finds herself in all-too-relatable situations. Lucky for us, Hugh Grant is back, and Chiwetel Ejiofor joins the cast, bringing a fresh dynamic to this classic franchise. With plenty of romance, misadventures, and, of course, diary entries, this latest chapter is a must-watch for longtime fans and should be a great ride for newcomers as well. You can stream “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” exclusively on Peacock starting Thursday, Feb. 13.

How to watch ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ When: Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025 at 12:01 a.

The fourth entry in the popular Bridget Jones film franchise, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, is set to debut on Peacock and theatrically in other parts of the globe in time for Valentine's Day. Released nine years after the previous film, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy sees Renée Zellweger reprise her iconic role as Bridget Jones, who is attempting to re-enter the dating scene as a single mother after the death of her husband, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth in the previous films). The reviews are in, and it looks like Bridget Jones is back baby...but not to be confused with Bridget Jones Baby.

Bridget Jones Baby debuted on Rotten Tomatoes at 83% based on 12 reviews. Donald Clarke of The Irish Times gave the movie a 4/5 rating and said, "Mad About the Boy says things worth hearing about grief and the realities of aging. It is hard to imagine...

In “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” the neurotic, lovelorn heroine hasn’t just swapped cigarettes for Nicorette. She’s traded the big screen for Peacock, a second-tier streaming service where the franchise’s fourth entry will debut on Feb. 13.

“[People] will watch this one at home,” says Helen Fielding, the author who created Bridget Jones. “If you’re Bridget’s generation, it will be with a bottle of wine and a tub of ice cream. If you’re Gen Z, it will be with lots of minerals, potions and slippers. But it’s a good movie to watch on the sofa.”

Relegating “Mad About the Boy” to streaming signals how far the romantic comedy has fallen in the 24 years since Bridget first captured audiences’ hearts. When “Bridget Jones’s Diary” hit theaters in 2001, the genre was at its zenith, with Julia Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Sandra Bullock and of course Bridget herself,...

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...

The biggest movie coming to Peacock in February is arguably “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” which is set to start streaming exclusively on the platform on Valentine’s Day. As of this writing, though, the jury’s still out on whether or not that film can make up for the mistakes of 2016’s “Bridget Jones’s Baby” and take the popular rom-com franchise back to its former heights. Fortunately, you don’t have to wonder about the quality of some of the other movies that are freshly available to stream on Peacock this month.

Here are the seven best movies coming to the platform in February.

“Gone Baby Gone” (Miramax Films) “Gone Baby Gone” (2007)

Ben Affleck’s directorial career may have gone quiet in recent years, but his first effort as a director, 2007’s “Gone Baby Gone,” remains one of the more impressive debuts we’ve seen over the past 20 years.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy is enjoying bigger advance sales a week ahead of release in UK and Ireland than was the case in summer 2023 with Barbie, according to two cinema chains that shared data with Screen.

At Odeon, by yesterday morning – one week ahead of the film’s February 13 UK and Ireland release – the multiplex chain said it had sold around 70,000 tickets, outselling Barbie in the comparative pre-sale period. Around 20% of tickets had been sold for the Thursday preview day, and around a third for Valentine’s Day (February 14).

At boutique chain Curzon, advance sales of the Universal...