I don’t find out about you, however I actually don’t assume there’s sufficient romantic comedies to observe in theaters regularly. I do know I didn’t have a single one to exit and see final yr, and after I look ahead to 2025 motion pictures, I don’t see a lot hope there both. Common had the chance to launch the brand new Bridget Jones film in U.S. cinemas and determined to make it an unique for these with a Peacock subscription as an alternative. After seeing the numbers the film pulled in theaters outdoors the U.S., I’m actually bummed it didn’t play on the massive display first stateside too.
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy Is Truly Doing Nice At International Field Workplace
How precisely did Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy do? The film has made a reported $95.8 million worldwide since popping out Valentine’s Day weekend in nations throughout the globe. No, that doesn’t make it one of many highest-grossing romantic comedies of all time or something. Nonetheless, its worldwide numbers are comparatively near the final blockbuster rom-com, 2023’s Anybody However You, which made $132 million in worldwide numbers, together with $88 million domestically.
I do know we’re solely within the third month of the yr, however Bridget Jones at present sits because the third highest grossing film of 2025 worldwide behind Captain America: Courageous New World and Canine Man. That’s proper, it’s finished higher than Common’s newest monster film, Wolf Man (which made a measly $34 million), and Ke Huy Quan’s motion comedy Love Hurts ($17 million). That’s not a shock to me, as a result of Bridget Jones is such a beloved title in cinema throughout almost 25 years. If any romantic comedy was going to do field workplace numbers it could be a franchise title like this.
These Numbers Makes Me Want The Film Went To Theaters In The U.S. Earlier than Peacock
Now that I’ve seen Mad About The Boy, I completely want it had gone to theaters so I may have made a date with my mother to cry within the theater over the film collectively. As a result of the film was on the calendar for Peacock launch and I knew Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy is lifeless within the film, I robotically figured that it wouldn’t be excellent (and let’s be trustworthy, on par with the final sequel). Nonetheless, after I did flip it on at residence, I used to be impressed with the way it was nearly precisely what I might need from a theatrical romantic comedy expertise.
I watched the film alone, however I believe if Common had actually performed up the advertising and marketing and had evaluations out forward of time sufficient for phrase to get out (it has an 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes by the way in which).