UNIVERSAL PICTURES IS THRILLED TO WELCOME RENÉE ZELLWEGER, CHIWETEL EJIOFOR, LEO WOODALL, DIRECTOR MICHAEL MORRIS TO SYDNEY ON FEBRUARY 9 TO CELEBRATE THE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE OF BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY
IN CINEMAS FEBRUARY 13, WITH GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT SCREENINGS ON FEBRUARY 12
New adventure. Same Bridget.
| Dear Diary, it’s been almost 10 years since we last heard from the woman whose inimitable approach to life and love redefined an entire film genre.
Now, Renée Zellweger returns to the role that established a romantic-comedy heroine for the ages with Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. Universal Pictures Australia is thrilled to announce the film’s cast and director are heading to Sydney this summer for the film’s Australian Premiere at HOYTS EQ from 6pm on Sunday, February 9. Two-time Academy Award® winner Renée Zellweger will be joined by co-stars Oscar® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall and director Michael Morris to introduce the film to Australian audiences. An impressive roster of VIP Australian singletons and smug marrieds will join the international guests to help celebrate Bridget’s final chapter, just in time for Valentine’s Day. |
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy will be released in Australian cinemas on February 13. #BridgetJonesMovie
| ABOUT THE FILM |
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.
But 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 nine-year-old Billy and four-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 gynecologist Dr. Rawlings (Oscar® winner Emma Thompson) — to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (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 (Ejiofor).
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is directed by 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 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.
