Renee Zellweger ‘Has Kept the Flame Alive’ on ‘Bridget Jones’ (EXCL

Renée Zellweger likes to stay life on the down low lately, however she’s popping out of her self-imposed hibernation to plug the upcoming Bridget Jones installment – Mad About The Boy – for all its value. It additionally doesn’t damage that the actress is trying on the enormous carrot of a large payday bonus if the film does properly on the field workplace, a supply solely reveals to Nearer. 

“Over the many years, Renée has saved the flame alive on the Bridget Jones movie franchise and with good purpose: these are the movies that made her wealthy and saved her wealthy even when she opted to not act in any respect for years at a time,” the insider says. 

The primary Bridget Jones flick, Bridget Jones’s Diary, turned a smash hit when it was launched in 2001, racking up $280 million on the field workplace towards a comparatively small finances of about $25 million. Important to its triumph was the charisma and efficiency of Renée, 55, who expertly portrayed a lady many felt they might relate to. 

Based mostly on a sequence of novels, execs had been fast to capitalize on the success of the film by persevering with the story in accordance with the supply materials – for probably the most half. That led to the second film, Bridget Jones: The Fringe of Purpose, which launched in November 2004. There was a niche as execs thought of whether or not or to not relaunch the sequence, however ultimately determined to resuscitate the title, leading to Bridget Jones’s Child in 2016.

Because the fourth installment is gearing up for launch in time for Valentine’s Day in 2025, the supply notes that Renée has deftly managed to safe “actual revenue participation factors on the again finish of those films,” principally by creating “a rock-solid relationship along with her fellow producers and with the creator of the franchise, the writer Helen Fielding.” 

“The upside of all of that’s how easily this fourth film got here collectively,” the supply continues. “You nearly by no means see a fourth film in a profitable sequence stand up and working like this, and that’s all the way down to Renée’s artistic management and continued relevance.” 

“Renée has absolutely earned the full management she has over these movies.” 

Nevertheless, the insider factors out that there’s a “draw back for Renée and her team, who’ve been along with her on these films for twenty years now,” which is that “the promotion of those films is totally on her shoulders and all of it comes all the way down to what number of interviews she will be able to do, what number of purple carpets she will be able to stroll and the way a lot unpaid media she will be able to generate.” 

For Renée, who has constructed up a formidable estimated web value of $90 million, the labor appears to be value it for the sequence that introduced dwelling the bacon for thus many many years.

Nonetheless, “It’s a problem for an individual who is of course shy like Renée, however on the finish of that lengthy highway is a payoff on par with what guys like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt can earn on one in all their hit films!”