Renée Zellweger and Leo Woodall in “Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.”
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy — the final chapter in Renée Zellweger’s Bridget Jones movie saga — is coming soon to digital streaming.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is the fourth movie in the series. Based on the bestselling novels by Helen Fielding, Zellweger originated the big-screen iteration of the character in Bridget Jones’s Diary in 2001 and reprised the role in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason in 2004.
Zellweger played Bridget once again in 2016 for Bridget Jones’s Baby before returning in 2025 for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. The logline for the latest film reads, “After jumping back into the dating pool, single mother Bridget Jones finds herself caught between a younger man and her son’s science teacher.”
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy will be released on digital video via premium video on demand on Tuesday, May 13. Pricing information is not yet available for the PVOD release of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, but generally new films on digital streaming cost $19.99 to purchase and $14.99 to $24.99 to rent for 48 hours.
The film should be available on a variety of digital platforms, including AppleTV, Fandango at Home and Prime Video.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy first debuted on Peacock on Feb. 13 and is still available on streaming video on demand on the NBC Universal platform for subscribers.
How Did Audiences And Critics Receive ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’?
While Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy debuted on Peacock in the U.S., it did play in movie theaters internationally, where it earned $124.6 million against a $50 million production budget before prints and advertising, per The Numbers.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy received an 88% “fresh” rating from Rotten Tomatoes critics based on 116 reviews, while audiences gave the film a 76% “fresh” rating on RT’s Popcornmeter based on 500-plus verified user ratings.
The RT Critics consensus for the film reads, “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.”
Directed by Michael Morris, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy — which is rated R — also stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones and Isla Fisher.
Bridget Jones book author Helen Fielding wrote the screenplay for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy with Abi Morgan and Dan Mazer.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy arrives on PVOD on May 13.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2025/04/22/bridget-jones-mad-about-the-boy-gets-digital-streaming-date/