Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Additional characters include Edina's overly serious daughter Saffron (Sawalha), her daffy mother (Whitfield) and her even daffier assistant Bubble (Horrocks). Deadline Hollywood broke the story in November 2011 that Saunders planned to begin writing a film version of the series in 2012. The movie would begin with Edina and Patsy waking up hungover after a party on an oligarch's yacht, with everyone else gone and the boat somewhere the middle of the ocean. Saunders later said that she hoped to shoot the film on the French Riviera. In March 2012, Saunders confirmed that she was working on the script. She
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie July 2016 and was released in the UK on Blu-ray and DVD on 5 December 2016. , "Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie" has grossed $37.9 million worldwide, including $19.5 million in the United Kingdom, $4.7 million in the United States, under very limited release, and $6.2 million in Australia. It was also released in Finland, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, New Zealand, and the Netherlands. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 62% based on 117 reviews; the average rating is 5.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie" picks up pretty much where