A continued healthy run over the weekend, contributing to a $41.1m running homegrown total, has meant Working Title is the first British company to make $1bn (£770m) at the UK box office.
“When we started, a British film doing a couple of million at the box office outside of Bond was amazing,” Tim Bevan, co-chairman of Working Title, told Deadline.
The third instalment in the big-screen adventures of Helen Fielding’s big-swigging klutz has done so well at the UK box office that it has broken fresh records for the production company responsible.
Despite Bridget Jones’s Baby’s success in the UK, US audiences have experienced more pronounced teething trouble – the film has so far only taken $21m in the US.