Bridget Jones 4 Box Office Boost Causes Quadrilogy To Outgross An Entire Popular 13-Film Franchise

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy has helped the overall quadrilogy outgross an even bigger franchise. The new movie is the fourth installment in the romantic comedy series, which follows the life and romantic travails of Renée Zellweger’s тιтle character. The Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy cast sees Zellweger, Hugh Grant, and Colin Firth returning alongside newcomers Leo Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor. It is a Peacock exclusive in the United States, but its international theatrical release has seen it gross more than $100 million worldwide, making it the third highest-grossing English-language movie of 2025 at the time of writing.

Per The Numbers, over the course of its fifth weekend in theaters, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy has pushed the overall four-film rom-com franchise to a cumulative gross of $856.6 million worldwide. This has caused it to rise up the overall chart of the highest-grossing film franchises of all time, hitting No. 130 by surpᴀssing the $855.1 million collectively earned by all 13 movies in the popular slasher franchise Halloween. Although the three most recent Halloween movies were the highest-grossing, there are not currently plans to make a 14th, as the franchise will be pivoting to television.

What This Means For Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy

The Movie Is A Bona Fide Hit

In addition to the fact that Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy reviews have earned the movie a franchise-best 89% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, its runaway success has contributed to the overall quadrilogy in entirely unforeseen ways by propelling it up the all-time chart. However, the fact that it did not play in domestic theaters means that it could have reached even higher. Even if it continued the franchise’s pattern of diminishing returns, it most likely would have grossed an additional $14 million, pushing the franchise past even more major franchises.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is the third installment to be Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes after 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary (79%) and 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby (78%).

With an additional $14 million added to their cumulative gross, the Bridget Jones movies would have already surged past the Home Alone movies, which grossed $866.4 million worldwide. It would also be well on its way toward outgrossing the two Twisters movies, which collectively earned $871.3 million. From that point, it may have also begun to close in on Paranormal Activity ($890.4 million) and A Quiet Place ($892.6 million), reaching a height that it may never hit during its current release, which is already winding down.

Our Take On The Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy Box Office

A Domestic Release Could Have Helped In Other Ways, Too


Renee Zellweger as Bridget and Leo Woodall as Roxster wet and smiling in Bridget Jones Mad About the Boy

Another thing that a domestic release could have accomplished was helping Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy hit its break-even point much sooner. Because the movie cost $50 million, it will likely need to hit $125 million in order to turn a profit, which is a total that is well within its sights but which it has not reached yet. In addition to the money it would have already earned, the buzz generated by its meteoric rise up the chart could have made it an even stronger theatrical prospect, during a time that is otherwise extremely quiet in domestic theaters.

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Source: The Numbers

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