Is it time to fire up 'All By Myself' again? You betcha because Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy arrives in time for Valentine's Day, reuniting us with Renée Zellweger's loveable and lovelorn title character.
Bridget's romantic entanglements and alcohol-fuelled mishaps have generated three hilarious movies so far and while we can expect big laughs from the fourth, we indeed find Bridget at a crossroads in her life.
She's now the widowed mother of two children and finds herself receiving attention from two men, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Leo Woodall (One Day). Luckily, Hugh Grant's caddish Daniel Cleaver hovering around the edges ready to steal the show with just a few bits of acerbic life advice.
Get ready for the fourth Bridget Jones movie with these fun facts and then book your tickets at the end of this post.
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Helen Fielding's novel Bridget Jones is liberally inspired by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, right down to the name Mark Darcy (played by Colin Firth) and the name of Bridget's workplace, Pemberly Press.
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Bridget began life in a newspaper column before Fielding translated this into a novel in 1996.
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The screenplay for the first film was co-written by Andrew Davies, the man behind the 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice starring... Colin Firth.
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Toni Collette was offered the role of Bridget but declined owing to Broadway commitments, and Kate Winslet was also considered for the role.
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Renée Zellweger moved to England for several months to develop her accent and even worked undercover in the sort of publishing house where we'd expect to find Bridget working.
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Zellweger maintained her prim English tone right up to the end of production and only revealed her true accent to Hugh Grant at the wrap party.
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To amplify the humour and realism, the fight scene between Hugh Grant's Daniel Cleaver and Colin Firth's Darcy in Bridget Jones's Diary wasn't choreographed.
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In the books, Bridget's friends frequent Café Rouge – coincidentally, one of Cineworld's restaurant partners...
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The Bridget Jones series is the first film trilogy to be directed entirely by women (Sharon Maguire for the first and third movies, and Beeban Kidron for the second).
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Chardonnay took a big image hit after the release of Bridget Jones's Diary with wine writer Oz Clarke observing, 'Before Bridget Jones, Chardonnay was really sexy. After, people said, "God, not in my bar"'.
Book your tickets for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. It's released on February 13th and don't forget about our Bridget Jones Galentine's Day offer.
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