Renée Zellweger, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Hugh Grant open the diary’s pages again with the one-sheet poster for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.
Bridget Jones is Mad About The Boy on Valentine’s Day! 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 in Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.
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 finally marry top lawyer Mark Darcy. And to become the mother of their baby boy. Happiness at last.
PREMISE
In Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, 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 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 gynaecologist Dr Rawlings (Oscar® winner Emma Thompson) — to forge a new path toward life and love. Bridget goes back to work and even tries out dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (White Lotus’s Leo Woodall). Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school. Worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father. And engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher (Oscar® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor).
BEHIND THE SCENES
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Michael Morris (To Leslie, Better Call Saul). From a screenplay by BAFTA nominee Helen Fielding, based on her novel. With contributions from Emmy winner Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, Eric) and Oscar® nominee Dan Mazer (I Give it A Year, Bridget Jones’s Baby).
The film is a Working Title production by producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, known for films such as The Danish Girl, Darkest Hour, Fargo, Les Misérables, and The Theory of Everything, which have collectively garnered 14 Academy Awards® and six Best Picture nominations. Jo Wallett (Wicked Little Letters, Catherine Called Birdy) also serves as a producer. Amelia Granger and Sarah-Jane Wright are the executive producers for Working Title. Renée Zellweger and by Helen Fielding. Working Title has produced all the Bridget Jones films.
RELEASE
A Universal Pictures/Working Title film, with co-financing from Studiocanal and Miramax. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy will be released in theaters internationally by Universal Pictures. And will stream exclusively on Peacock in the U.S. The three previous Bridget Jones films, Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). And Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016) have earned more than $800 million worldwide.
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Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy will be in cinemas on February 14th, 2025
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