Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and 4 Other Anticipated Romantic Movies to Be Released in 2025
Rom-com fans, your time has come!
Year after year, movies about love do not let us be disappointed in this bright feeling. We are waiting for the final part of Bridget Jones, a love story about AI and real feelings and a love triangle with Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal.
1. Materialists
Release Date: 2025
Dakota Johnson's character is a successful matchmaker. While she confidently advises clients on pairing up, she has no idea what to do with her own personal life.
The woman finds herself in a love triangle: she, her perfect partner – a successful businessman – and her ex-boyfriend. While solving this mystery, the matchmaker begins to doubt her own professionalism.
About the plot of this romance disappointingly little is known – only that Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal will fight for Dakota's heart. But the name of the director gives hope. In 2023, Celine Song's debut Past Lives was released – a tender melancholic story about love and finding yourself.
2. The Bride!
Release Date: September 26, 2025
A remake of the 1935 movie Bride of Frankenstein – a sequel to the cult Frankenstein, released in 1931. In 1930s Chicago, a famous monster goes mad from melancholy and loneliness and asks a doctor to create him a girlfriend.
Together they revive the corpse of a murdered woman and name her Myrna. The unusual couple shocks everyone around them and attracts the attention of the police. Society is not ready to accept their love, which is literally explosive.
The production was entrusted to Maggie Gyllenhaal, for whom this will be her second feature film. 90 years have passed since the premiere of the first Bride, it's time to reread the story and give it new meanings.
3. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Release Date: February 13, 2025
The franchise beloved by millions returns to bring the adventures of Bridget to a close. In the previous film, the woman suddenly discovers she is pregnant. The characters of Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey claim the title of father of the child. Fortune smiles on the former.
In the fourth installment, Bridget is already Mark's widow. She is in her fifties, raising a son and daughter on her own. A few years after her husband's death, the woman goes back to work and tries to move on with her life.
Her friends advise her to find a boyfriend, and she does. But he is twenty-nine, and Bridget hides her age. The relationship becomes more and more serious. And soon a new piece of the puzzle appears: her children's teacher falls in love with the woman.
4. Love Me
Release Date: January 31, 2025
Love that lasts for billions of years sounds unrealistic. But what if the lovers are a space satellite and a buoy in the ocean? Humanity is extinct and only artificial intelligence remains in the world, and that is what brings this couple together.
Day by day, year by year, century by century, they become more intelligent and understand real feelings. And at some point they even acquire a physical shell – animated avatars. They live in a perfect apartment and are no different from humans. Or are they different?
5. Wish You Were Here
Release Date: January 17, 2025
In her early twenties, Charlotte doesn't know where to go. Her career isn't going anywhere, and she's not thrilled with her job at a small diner in Los Angeles.
One day, she meets a charming artist named Adam on the street. Their acquaintance leads to a one-night stand, and the next morning the artist disappears. Even months later, Charlotte can't forget her encounter.
She's already in another happy, stable relationship, but Adam becomes her obsession. Trying to choose between a caring partner and a guy from her memories, the girl discovers Adam's secret.