--- title: 'Bridget Jones's Baby' Gets a Release Date description: With Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth reprising their roles from previous 'Bridget Jones' films, Patrick Dempsey will join the duo. canonical: https://time.com/4072033/bridget-jones-baby-release-date/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-13T19:40:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:45:40.500Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Bridget Jones's Baby' Gets a Due Date og:description: Patrick Dempsey will join Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth in the new film og:url: https://time.com/4072033/bridget-jones-baby-release-date/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1625c04079091a62/698868228e0601ac90462d6f/bridget-jones-baby.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Bridget Jones Baby og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Bridget Jones's Baby' Gets a Due Date twitter:description: Patrick Dempsey will join Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth in the new film twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1625c04079091a62/698868228e0601ac90462d6f/bridget-jones-baby.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Bridget Jones's Baby_ Gets a Due Date by [Megan Daley / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Megan Daley / Entertainment Weekly Oct 13, 2015 7:40 PM UTC  Universal Pictures by [Megan Daley / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Megan Daley / Entertainment Weekly Oct 13, 2015 7:40 PM UTC Bridget Jones is back, and the latest film in the franchise, _Bridget Jones’s Baby_, now has an official release date. With Sharon Maguire back to direct, star Renee Zellweger will reprise the titular role of Bridget, alongside Colin Firth, who plays Bridget’s longtime love, Mark Darcy. At the end of the second film, Bridget accepted Mark’s marriage proposal, and now a new surprise is in store for our heroine — a pregnancy. (And, it seems, she’s ditched her signature diary in favor of something a little more [high-tech](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/02/bridget-jones-baby-photo).) [Patrick Dempsey](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/23/patrick-dempsey-bridget-jones-baby-instagram), who teased [starting work on the film](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/23/patrick-dempsey-bridget-jones-baby-instagram) last month, [will join the duo](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/09/patrick-dempsey-books-first-big-post-greys-project). Based on the novels by Helen Fielding, the new film follows 2001’s _Bridget Jones’s Diary_ and 2004’s _Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason_. From Universal Pictures, Miramax, and Studiocanal, _Bridget Jones’s Baby_ will arrive in theaters Sept. 16, 2016. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/13/bridget-jones-baby-release-date) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4072033/bridget-jones-baby-release-date/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4072033/bridget-jones-baby-release-date/"},"headline":"Bridget Jones's Baby Gets a Due Date","datePublished":"2015-10-13T19:40:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:45:40.500Z","description":"Patrick Dempsey will join Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth in the new film","url":"https://time.com/4072033/bridget-jones-baby-release-date/","keywords":["movies","Colin Firth"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1625c04079091a62/698868228e0601ac90462d6f/bridget-jones-baby.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Daley / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1625c04079091a62/698868228e0601ac90462d6f/bridget-jones-baby.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bridget Jones Baby","caption":"Bridget Jones Baby","creditText":"Universal Pictures","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4072033/bridget-jones-baby-release-date/","name":"Bridget Jones's Baby Gets a Due Date"}}]}] ```