Bridget Jones: Last News

The latest chapter in the Bridget Jones saga is set to grace UK cinemas today (Friday, February 14), just in time for Valentine's Day. This fourth film in the series is based on Helen Fielding's 2013 novel of the same name.

Bridget Jones star Leo Woodall once had his scenes cut from a crime thriller starring Tom Holland.The 28-year-old actor is taking on a new romantic role in Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, released on February 13, where he plays Roxster, Bridget's much-younger love interest. Prior to joining the franchise, Woodall had starred in HBO's hit drama The White Lotus and played the beloved character Dexter Mayhew in Netflix's One Day. However, the rising actor's film debut in a 2021 drama did not make it to the big screen.

showing us in real time just how true the sentiment is. Case in point: On February 12, 2025, Zellweger stepped out for the New York premiere of in a off-the-shoulder satin Prada column dress, which she teamed with matching pointed-toe pumps in the same shade of pale khaki.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, the fourth instalment in the Bridget Jones series, sees Renee Zellweger reprising her role as the titular character.This time, she's joined by rising British star Leo Woodall.The 28 year old actor plays Roxster, a gardener who embarks on a romance with Bridget, now a widow and mother of two, after a chance encounter on London's Hampstead Heath. Despite their age difference - Roxster is in his twenties while Bridget is in her early fifties - the chemistry between them is palpable.

Bridget Jones' Diary fans were left gobsmacked upon discovering that one of the film's stars was honoured with an Oscar nomination for their role. The beloved trilogy, featuring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, and Hugh Grant, is set to welcome a new chapter as Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy hits cinemas on Valentine's Day (Friday, February 14).

This Morning's Cat Deeley was left utterly speechless when her ITV colleague shared a revelation that was like a real-life Bridget Jones situation.

Bridget Jones movie, which stars Renée Zellweger, Leo Woodall, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, is not what you might expect—and . But even so, some aspects of the franchise had to remain for the fourth and likely final installment.Lucky for us, it comes in the form of yet another water scene in which a hot guy ('s Roxster, this time) wears a white button down shirt that's plastered to his chiseled body.

“Bridget Jones” author Helen Fielding has revealed Colin Firth‘s reaction to her decision to kill off beloved character Mark Darcy in the book, which is the basis for the fourth film, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is set to grace UK cinemas this week, marking the return of our favourite romcom heroine.The much-anticipated fourth instalment of the beloved franchise will be released this Thursday (February 13), perfectly timed for Valentine's Day. In this sequel, Bridget (Renee Zellweger) is navigating life as a widow following the untimely death of her husband, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). She's back at work and venturing into the world of dating apps, all while managing the attentions of a younger admirer named Roxster, played by One Day's Leo Woodall.

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.

This weekend the top new movies are clearly hoping four’s a charm. That’s the number of the latest installment of the Bridget Jones rom-com franchise opening theatrically internationally and on Peacock in the U.S., and that is the number of the latest stand-alone Captain America edition — but for the first time on the big screen without Chris Evans behind the shield. That has been passed to Anthony Mackie, who is no stranger to this franchise now in his eighth iteration including the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier in which he played The Falcon, aka Sam Wilson, and co-starred with Sebastian Stan.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy hits UK cinemas on Thursday (February 13), but what songs are included in the film? Check out the full list below.The fourth instalment in the Bridget Jones film saga, it is based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Helen Fielding. Fielding has co-written the screenplay too, alongside Dan Mazer (Ali G Indahouse, Borat) and Abi Morgan (Shame, The Iron Lady), while Michael Morris (To Leslie) directs.Renée Zellweger returns as the titular character, while Hugh Grant, Colin Firth and Emma Thompson all reprise their characters from previous films.

Running time: 124 minutes. Rated R (language and some sexual references).Cheers to Renee Zellweger, who for 24 years has given us the greatest romantic-comedy heroine of the millennium.Back in 2001, her casting as Bridget Jones, author Helen Fielding’s intensely relatable English klutz beloved by Brits, caused an uproar. An American as Bridget?! Outrageous.But Zellweger proved perfect as the vodka-soaked Londoner in her 32nd year of being single.

Ellise Shafer The night the third “Bridget Jones” novel, “Mad About the Boy,” came out in October 2013, author Helen Fielding was taking a walk in London when she passed her local pub and was accosted by a tipsy patron. “You’ve killed Colin Firth!” they shouted dramatically. “Well the truth is, I didn’t ever intend to actually kill Colin,” Fielding tells Variety over Zoom, remembering the details of that day with a mischievous smile.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic 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.

Just in time for Valentines 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 theatres in the U.S., but the fourth go round with the delightful romantic comedy, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy is the one that Universal should have given the valentine to U.S. exhibition. Instead is only being released in theatres internationally, and of course the U.K. 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 delivered over $800 million worldwide from three films beginning with 2001’s Bridget Jones Diary, 2004’s Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason, and 2016’s Bridget Jones Baby. Along with its producer Working Title’s other movies like Love Actually, Notting Hill, About A Boy, and Four Weddings And A Funeral, Bridget Jones singlehandedly reinvented the romcom genre for a new generation thanks to Helen Fielding’s enormously popular books, and especially its star, Renee Zellweger whose spirit and zest for life and love fits seamlessly into a role that won her a first Oscar nomination and remains the character you can’t imagine anyone else doing.

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Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Paging Sam Wilson! “Captain America: Brave New World” flies to cinemas over the weekend, and Marvel’s latest adventure hopes to thaw an icy box office. “Captain America: Brave New World,” in which Anthony Mackie’s Avenger takes over the star-spangled shield from Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers, is targeting $80 million to $85 million over the traditional weekend and $90 million to $95 million through the President’s Day holiday.

Bridget Jones movie is the reason to subscribe. , appropriately titled Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, is the final film in the rom-com franchise, and you needn't have seen the other three to have an appreciation for this one (though it does help).The movie is by Helen Fielding, which came out more than a decade ago.

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William Earl “Heart Eyes” is a fascinating blend of films, mixing a rom-com with a slasher, with a pinch of broad laughs. Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding star as two co-workers who are mistaken for lovers by a serial killer who only strikes on Valentine’s Day. The film is helmed by director Josh Ruben, who cut his teeth making short-form content at CollegeHumor before directing two indie comedy-horror films with passionate fanbases: 2020’s “Scare Me” and 2021’s “Werewolves Within.” Ruben spoke to Variety about balancing the right tone between horror and comedy, the secrets to developing a great rom-com and what “Heart Eyes” sequel ideas could look like.