Bridget Jones: Mad Concerning the Boy has achieved the highest-ever opening for a romcom within the UK and Eire, based on Common.
The fourth film within the franchise, set across the titular unlucky-in-love heroine, took $14.9m, (£11.m) in its first weekend, beating Marvel’s first launch of the yr, Captain America: Courageous New World.
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Zellweger and Leo Woodall in Bridget Jones: Mad Concerning the Boy. Pic: Common Photos
It overtakes the second movie within the franchise, Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Cause – the earlier report holder.
Much less of a family title within the US, Bridget’s newest journey did not get a cinema launch within the US, going straight to Common’s streaming service Peacock.
The movie’s success within the UK follows spectacular pre-sales, which had been higher than these of the record-breaking Margot Robbie film Barbie – one-half of final yr’s “Barbenheimer” phenomenon.
Produced by Working Title – the manufacturing firm behind British hits together with 4 Weddings And A Funeral, Love Really and Notting Hill – Bridget Jones 4 is now their highest-ever opening.
It was additionally the franchise’s greatest opening in Poland, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
With hit-and-miss evaluations from critics, audiences appear to be having fun with the present, score the film 86% contemporary on movie evaluation aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
The character first appeared in 1995 as nameless columns in The Impartial written by journalist Helen Fielding. A word-of-mouth hit, Fielding’s 4 subsequent books about Bridget had been bestsellers.
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Sky’s Bethany Minelle explains how Bridget Jones got here to be
Starring within the newest instalment alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall, Zellweger went on: “I love her. I love her humour. I love her vulnerability. I love her imperfection. I love the opportunity to play out her miscalculating a plan and it maybe, surprising her in her execution. I love all of it.”
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Bridget Jones – new period, new pants. Pic: Common Photos
The primary movie earned Zellweger an Oscar nod for her portrayal of Bridget, and the character’s title has gone into the lexicon to explain a 30-something single lady looking out for love.
A polarizing character, whereas some cherished the character’s relatability, others felt her obsession along with her look and discovering a person flew within the face of what it meant to be an impartial lady.
Fielding has mentioned the important thing to Bridget’s attraction lies in her revealing “the gap between how you feel you are supposed to be and how you really are inside”.
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy is in cinemas now.
