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'Retired' Renée Zellweger 'Can't Quit' Cash-Cow 'Bridget Jones' Franchise — As the Fat Paychecks are Just Too Tempting

Retired Renée Zellweger is said to get such massive paychecks from the projects she finds it impossible to walk away from offers to reprise her Bridget Jones role.

Renée Zellweger has been lured out of her cozy, far-from-the-limelight love nest to plug her new Bridget Jones flick for all it's worth, said sources, with the promise of a massive payday bonus if the rom-com movie smashes the box office. "Renée has real profit participation points on the back end of these movies and a rock-solid relationship with her fellow producers and with the creator of the franchise, novelist Helen Fielding. "It's a challenge for a person who is naturally shy like Renée is, but at the end of that long road is a payoff on par with what guys like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt can earn on one of their hit movies!"

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