Bridget Jones

On the data. Four films, one continuous story, and three things that go wrong in nearly every list of them. The first is the third film. Bridget Jones's Baby is not an adaptation of Fielding's third novel. The third novel is Mad About the Boy, published in 2013, and it is the source of the fourth film, not the third. Baby was drawn instead from the Bridget Jones columns Fielding wrote for The Independent in 2005, with Fielding taking a story credit and co-writing the screenplay alongside Dan Mazer and Emma Thompson. The practical effect is that book order and film order diverge: read the books in publication order and you reach the fourth film's premise before you have seen the third film. The second is the fourth film's release. Mad About the Boy opened theatrically in the United Kingdom and France on 13 February 2025 and did not get a wide theatrical release in the United States at all. It went straight to Peacock the same day. Lists that describe it as a 2025 theatrical release are describing the rest of the world. The third is the punctuation, which is genuinely inconsistent and is inconsistent on purpose. Films one and three are possessives: Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones's Baby. Films two and four use a colon: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. Databases normalise these in both directions and the wrong forms are everywhere. On the diary conceit, it is worth being precise. The first film is structured around the diary, and the tallies of weight, cigarettes and alcohol units are delivered as voiceover over shots of the open pages. That device does not run through the rest of the series, and none of the later films carries dated captions. Only the fourth states an interval out loud, and it is four years since Mark's death. Distribution is the usual mess. Working Title produced all four. Miramax was involved in the first two and retains franchise rights, which is why it is still credited on the later films. Universal handles international distribution throughout and United States distribution from the third film. StudioCanal is attached to the third and fourth. Fielding also published a tie-in, Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries, around the third film. It is a book published alongside the film rather than the film's source, and it is not listed here.

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