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Best Wedding Movies Ever Made in the Movie History
A wedding is a grand ceremony to unveil a new chapter for two people living together for the rest of their lives. So the films made in this context evoke some delightful experiences. Even wedding-centered dramas inspire the couples to live happy conjugal life by going through all the ups and downs of life together. This feature has been embellished with some of the Top-rated wedding focused cinemas of all time.
Greatest Wedding Movies of All Time
Four Weddings and a Funeral | 1994 | IMDb: 7.1
As the title implies, the story of this romantic comedy movie revolves around four wedding ceremonies and a funeral. Directed by Mike Newell and written by screenplay writer Richard Curtis, this British film tells the humorous story of Charles and his friends finding their life partners. In this movie, the lead character was portrayed by Hash Grant, the dashing rom-com hero.
The film also stars Andy McDowell, Christine Scott Thomas, and John Hannah. Famous comedian Rowan Atkinson is in a special role.
The top awards that filled the movie's gallery include the Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
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My Best Friend's Wedding | 1997 | IMDb: 6.3
The movie is one of the best works of Julia Roberts, the highest-paid actress of the '90s. Ronald Bass's romantic screenplay shows Julian realizing his love for his longtime best friend Michael when she hears that he is finally getting married. So she moved from New York to Chicago to break up his marriage.
Directed by PJ Hogan, Roberts co-starred with Dermat Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, and Rupert Everett.
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The film was a worldwide box office hit, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding | 2002 | IMDb: 6.6
Directed by Joel Zwick, this independent movie did not receive much acclaim in its release year. But later it became the highest-grossing movie of all time. Nia Vardalos played Fotula Toula (Portocalos), the main character of the movie. Interestingly, Nia Vardalos was the screenplay writer in this movie. This film was nominated for Best Original Screenplay in the Academy Award ceremony.
No barrier of race or family status works in the case of love is revealed here by the marriage of Toula, a Greek woman, and Ian, a non-Greek of high descent. John Corbett played the role of Ian.
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Love Actually | 2003 | IMDb: 7.6
This romantic comedy film was originally made in the context of Christmas. Here, the love lives of eight completely unfamiliar couples are neatly woven into one thread.
It is a star-studded film both written and directed by Richard Curtis. The cast includes Hugh Grant, Liam Nisson, Colin Firth, Laura Lynne, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley, Martin McCutchen, Bill Nighy, and Rowan Atkinson.
The movie, co-produced by the United Kingdom, the United States, and France, was widely acclaimed around the world.
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Corpse Bride | 2005 | IMDb: 7.3
Directed by Mike Johnson and acclaimed thriller filmmaker Tim Burton, the movie offers a slightly different flavor from traditional wedding movies. The screenplay for this stop-motion animated film is written by John August, Caroline Thompson, and Pamela Pettler.
The plot follows an introvert man who unwittingly rehearses his wedding vows with a young woman who has just emerged from the grave.
The voiceovers are given by Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.
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This musical Dark Fantasy film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Bridesmaids | 2011 | IMDb: 6.8
Annie Walker (Played by Kristen Wiig) was invited to be the chief bridesmaid at her best friend, Lilian’s wedding. But from the moment she accepted the invitation, she began to fall into unwanted embarrassment constantly.
With this story written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, the comedy film was made under the direction of Paul Fig. Wiig also played here an important role in the movie. Moreover, the cast includes Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, and Chris O'Dowd.
McCarthy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. While Wiig and Mumolo got the nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
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Ali's Wedding | 2017 | IMDb: 6.9
This Australian romantic film tells the story of a Muslim boy named Ali who ignores the conservatism of his community and tries to marry the love of his life, Diane, an Australian young woman.
The film, directed by Jeffrey Walker and written by Osama Sami, later paved the way for many popular movies with the same story with different communities. The comedy-drama film stars Sami, Helana Sawers, Don Haney, and Ryan Corr.
The film was acclaimed internationally, including several Australian national awards.
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On Your Wedding Day | 2018 | IMDb: 7
It is a South Korean romantic comedy and an intense portrayal of friendship and love. A young man is invited to the wedding of his best friend (who is the dearest person in his life).
While the story is somewhat similar to Hollywood's My Best Friend's Wedding, this South Korean version is relatively cute and serious.
Directed and scripted by Lee Seok-June, the film stars Park Bo-young and Kim Young-kwang. The movie was a commercial success and acclaimed nationally.
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Ready or Not | 2019 | IMDb: 6.9
Even if it is not desirable, sometimes a lot of misfortune can happen in the wedding ceremony. This American comedy movie is for horror lovers who won’t mind seeing the bride holding a rifle.
It's basically the story of a bride who has to go through some horrible activities according to the bizarre wedding ritual.
Directed by Matt Betinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillette, the film is scripted by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy. The film stars Samara Weaving, Mark O'Brien, Adam Brody, Andy McDowell, and Henry Cherney.
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Palm Springs | 2020 | IMDb: 7.4
What if the most cherished moment spent with the dearest person would be found again and again?
This is exactly the wonderful experience the audience will find in this American fantasy movie. The two acquaintances at a wedding get stuck in a time loop and come back repetitively at the same moment to get their love moment.
This romantic cinema, Max Barbako's first movie as a director, can also be defined as a science-fiction movie. Andy Searle wrote the screenplay for the movie with moderate humor. The movie stars Andy Samberg, Christine Millotti, Peter Gallagher, and J. K. Simmons.
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Wrap up
The greatest wedding centered movies ever can present some wonderful moments. These movies can be a source of pure entertainment on any weekend or holiday movie night. At the same time, they can arouse some feelings of love which will be the way to forget all the conflicts and live a life in amity.
Spider-Man comic page sells for record $3.36M bidding
A single page of artwork from a 1984 Spider-Man comic book sold at auction Thursday for a record $3.36 million.
Mike Zeck’s artwork for page 25 from Marvel Comics’ “Secret Wars No. 8” brings the first appearance of Spidey’s black suit. The symbiote suit would eventually lead to the emergence of the character Venom.
The record bidding, which started at $330,000 and soared past $3 million, came on the first day of Heritage Auctions’ four-day comic event in Dallas.
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The previous record for an interior page of a U.S. comic book was $657,250 for art from a 1974 issue of “The Incredible Hulk” that featured a tease for the first appearance of Wolverine.
Also Thursday, one of the few surviving copies of Superman’s debut, Action Comics No. 1, sold for $3.18 million, putting it among the priciest books ever auctioned.
None of the sellers or buyers were identified.
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20th Dhaka International Film Festival begins Saturday
With 225 films from 70 countries, the Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) will raise its curtain Saturday.
One hundred and twenty-five full-length feature films and 96 short and independent films are scheduled to enthral the moviegoers at the festival, where Bangladesh will be represented through 18 full-length feature films and 22 short and independent films.
The films will be screened at the Bangladesh National Museum, Alliance Francaise de Dhaka, Star Cineplex, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Sufia Kamal National Public Library and the academy auditorium of the foreign ministry.
They will be screened under 10 categories – Asian cinema competition section, retrospective, wide angle, tribute, Bangladesh panorama, cinema of the world, children films, women filmmakers, short and independent films and spiritual films.
The nine-day DIFF is going to be inaugurated at the main auditorium of the Bangladesh National Museum at 4pm.
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen will inaugurate the festival as the chief guest. State Minister for Cultural Affairs KM Khalid and Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram K Doraiswami will join it as special guests.
The DIFF will also feature the Eighth Dhaka International Conference on Women in Cinema 2022 at the Samson Lounge, Dhaka Club from January 16-17 and West Meets East: Screenplay Lab from January 16-19 at Alliance Francaise de Dhaka.
Thursday, a press conference was arranged at Dhaka Club in the capital where the festival director Ahmed Muztaba Zamal, DIFF Chairperson Kishwar Kamal, Secretary at the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism and DIFF Executive Committee Member Md Mokammel Hossain, Dhaka Club President Khandaker Mashiuzzaman Romel, Iranian filmmaker and DIFF head programmer Zohreh Zamani, festival executive committee member Jalal Ahmed, and patron committee member journalist Shyamal Dutta briefed the journos.
Rainbow Film Society has been organising the DIFF every year since 1992.
Singer Asif Akbar indicted in ICT case
A Dhaka court on Thursday framed charges against popular singer Asif Akbar in a case filed under the Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Act.
Dhaka Cyber Tribunal Judge Mohammad As-Sams Jaglul Hossain framed the charges rejecting the plea for acquittal and set June 23 to start recording statements of witnesses, said public prosecutor Najrul Islam Shamim.
With the framing of charges the formal trial in the case has started.
On June 4, 2018, lyricist and singer Shafiq Tuhin filed the case against Asif at Tejgaon police station.
On November 20, 2019, the investigation officer in the case filed two separate chargesheets against the singer under the ICT Act and Penal Code.
According to the case complaint, the plaintiff found out that Asif sold 617 songs of different lyricists, musician and singers without their permission through an investigative program named,”Search Light,” broadcasted in a private TV channel on June 1, 2018.
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Later the plaintiff got information from different sources that Asif digitalized those songs through his production company ARB Entertainment and earned a huge amount of money.
Shafiq Tuhin posted a status about the matter on his personal Facebook account where Asif commented indecently.
Later Asif came live on Facebook and said he will resist Shafiq anywhere he finds him.
Musician Tanvir Tareq to be seen in Afzal Hossain's film “Maniker Lal Kakra”
National Award-winning composer Tanvir Tareq will be seen on the big screen as a musician along with directing music for film maker Afzal Hossain’s upcoming children’s film “Maniker Lal Kakra.”
Tanvir told UNB that this was a surprising offer for him.
“Afzal bhai one day asked me whether I could come with the guitar in the next day’s shoot and his request was like an order to me.”
The actress was singing the song and I had to play the guitar with her in that scene, he said.
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Afzal at first told about two songs for the film. One was for the story where actress Sohana Saba will lip sync and another was the theme track, said Tareq.
The filmmaker chose a song of Tagore, “Diner Belay Bashi Tomar Bajiyechile,” he said. Both the songs were composed for guitar as Afzal requested, said the music director.
Regarding his new experience of acting Tanvir said,” Probably this is the first and last time I’d be seen acting. But at least I can now say I’ve acted in a film once!”
“Being a part of a legendary filmmaker like Afzal Hossain's film was a big achievement for me. Maybe he included me in this small part on the screen out of affection”.
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Maniker Lal Kakra is a film based on writer and novelist Manik Bandopadhyay's story while Masum Reza has written the script of the movie.
Ferdous Ahmed and Sohana Saba have been casted for the movie.
Jason Momoa, Lisa Bonet split after 16 years together
Jason Momoa and wife Lisa Bonet have ended their 16-year relationship.
A joint statement posted on the “Aquaman” star’s Instagram page Wednesday that he and his wife were parting ways.
“We have all felt the squeeze and changes of these transformational times… A revolution is unfolding (tilde)and our family is of no exception,” the post said, adding that they were announcing the split so “as we go about our lives we may do so with dignity and honesty.”
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Momoa, 42, and Bonet, 54, met and started dating in 2005 and officially married in late 2017. They have a son and daughter together.
Bonet, who rose to fame playing one of Bill Cosby’s daughters on “The Cosby Show” and its spinoff, “A Different World,” was previously married to rocker Lenny Kravitz.
Top 10 Hollywood Movies Released in 2021
With the epidemic of Covid-19 becoming somewhat milder, the Hollywood frenzy has returned to normal by mid-2021. Popular franchises, as well as movies with original stories, have taken place on the silver screen. At the lockdown, housebound movie-lovers desperately countdown to see the faces of their favorite stars on the full-length film. At the beginning of the year, let's take a look at the best Hollywood movies of 2021.
Top 10 Hollywood Movies released in 2021
Spider-Man: No Way Home | December 17, 2021
IMDb: 8.8/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 98% (Audience Score)
The Marvel movie means mesmerizing scenes of breathless action and VFX (high visual effects). This 27th movie of MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) has also carried on with that. Tom Holland, the youngest Peter Parker, has appeared in a solo Spiderman movie for the third time under the direction of John Watts. As always, Chris McKenna and Eric Somers set the screenplay for this timeless character of Stan Lee. Spiderman's previous characters are also featured here as the context of the story this time is about the multidimensional world. As a result, this highest-grossing movie of 2021 features stars like Jamie Foxx, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Andrew Garfield, and Toby Maguire.
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Dune | October 21, 2021
IMDb: 8.1/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 90% (Audience Score)
Popular rising stars like Timothy Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Zendaya, and Jason Momoa are seen together in this American epic science fiction movie. Denis Villeneuve directed it based on the first half of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel, which had already been adapted twice. John Spyhats And Eric Roth worked with him on the screenplay. The second version of the movie with the second half will come in October 2023. The story is about a child of an aristocratic family getting involved in a battle on a terrifying desert planet to protect the galaxy's most precious element.
Zack Snyder’s Justice League | March 18, 2021
IMDb: 8.1/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 94% (Audience Score)
DC studio, the worthy rival of Marvel, was not far behind this time as well. This movie is basically a more refined and more detailed version of the 2017 Justice League movie by Jack Snyder, the inaugural filmmaker of DCEU (DC Extended Universe). As before, it had Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Gale Gadget, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa, and Ezra Miller in their respective roles. In addition to hitting the box office, this director's cut of DCU's fifth movie has received a very positive response worldwide, even surpassing the original movie.
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Pori Moni-Raaz announces pregnancy
Actress Pori Moni has announced on Monday that she is expecting her first child, with 'No Dorai' famed Dhallywood actor Sariful Raaz.
The couple has confirmed the news on their Facebook profiles about being the parents of their first child on Monday at around 5 pm. Sharing the same photograph, they both congratulated and thanked each other.
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Further confirming the news to the media, Pori said, ''I am going to be a mother. Alhamdulillah I am fine. When the doctor confirmed it today, I felt like I am the strongest woman in the world. I am flying with enormous joy and happiness."
Describing her condition and further plans, Pori added, "The doctor has told me to be a little more careful now. I am also keeping myself away from shooting for the next year and a half. I want to give birth to a healthy baby."
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Regarding her relation with Razz, she has recently said that they fell in love on the set of noted director Giasuddin Selim's upcoming film 'Gunin'. She has recently confirmed that the two secretly got married a few days ago.
Ilias Kanchan to vie for president in film artistes’ association elections
Popular film actor Ilias Kanchan is going to run for president in the upcoming election of Bangladesh Film Artistes’ Association, said a press release on Monday.
The election will be held on January 28.
According to the press release, Ilias Kanchan will run for president while actress Nipun Akter will run for general secretary from the same panel.
Ilias said other members of the panel, including Nipun, offered to vie for the post of president. Considering the current situation in the industry, ‘’I agreed’’, said the release.
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He also said “if we win, we all work together and the industry will move forward”, added the release.
“I have to make some plans to save our industry. First of all, we have to increase the number of films because without films, the halls cannot run. Taka one thousand crore is being given for the construction of cinema halls across the country, he added. “I want to revitalize the industry and I am moving forward with this”.
He said the government has many initiatives about the film industry adding that the prime minister has taken many initiatives for the betterment of cinema. “I also want our industry to move forward with something good.”
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Ilias Kanchan-Nipun panel will collect nomination papers on January 11, read the release.
Bob Saget, beloved TV dad of ‘Full House,’ dead at 65
Bob Saget, the actor-comedian known for his role as beloved single dad Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full House” and as the wisecracking host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” has died, according to authorities in Florida. He was 65.
Deputies in Orange County, Florida, were called Sunday about an “unresponsive man” in a hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando and found Saget dead, according to a sheriff’s statement on Twitter. Detectives found “no signs of foul play or drug use in this case.”
Saget was in Florida as part of his “I Don’t Do Negative Comedy Tour.” After warm audience receptions to his gigs Friday in Orlando and Saturday in the Ponte Vedra Beach resort area, he celebrated online.
“I’m back in comedy like I was when I was 26. I guess I’m finding my new voice and loving every moment of it,” he posted Saturday on Instagram.
Fellow comedians and friends praised Saget not only for his wit, but his kindness.
“I am broken. I am gutted. I am in complete and utter shock. I will never ever have another friend like him,” wrote John Stamos, who co-starred with Saget on “Full House.” “I love you so much Bobby.”
“I have no words. Bob was one of the best humans beings I’ve ever known in my life. I loved him so much,” said Candace Cameron Bure, who played Saget’s daughter on “Full House.”
“In often a ruthless business he was historically not just hilarious but more importantly one of the kindest human beings I ever met in my career,” actor Richard Lewis wrote on Twitter.
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In a statement Sunday, Saget’s family members said they are “devastated to confirm that our beloved Bob passed away today.... Though we ask for privacy at this time, we invite you to join us in remembering the love and laughter that Bob brought to the world.”
Saget the stand-up showed his flip side with what become a much-talked-about cameo in the 2005 documentary “The Aristocrats” — in which 100 comics riffed on the world’s dirtiest joke — that revealed his notoriously filthy sense of humor.
It stayed undercover on network TV, both as the longtime host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and as the squeaky clean widower and father to three young girls on “Full House,” the ABC sitcom that also brought fame to Olsen twins Mary-Kate and Ashley when it debuted in 1987.
The show’s popularity didn’t deter critics, some calling it cheesy and others deeming it unreal. Saget, as amiable and droll in an interview as he was on TV screens, took the brickbats in stride.
″‘Full House’ was a loving kind of show but obviously over the top. It had its heightened reality, a glossy Willy Wonka quality to it,” he told The Associated Pres in a 2001 interview.
That year, Saget took another pass at playing a widowed dad with winsome kids on the short-lived sitcom “Raising Dad.”
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He said he found himself repeatedly fielding questions about his habit of playing sitcom widowers, and had a ready response: ”(Kevin) Costner does three, four baseball movies and that’s OK. There’s my rationale.”
He focused occasionally on directing over the years, including on HBO’s “The Mind of the Married Man,” and the Norm Macdonald film “Dirty Work.”
He drew praise as producer-director of the 1996 TV film “For Hope,” loosely based on the battle of his late sister, Gay, with the tissue disease scleroderma, and appealed for increased federal support for research funds.
He remembered his sister in a January 2020 post, noting that she died when she was 47 and would have been 73 that month.
Saget had daughters Aubrey, Lara and Jennifer with first wife Sherri Kramer before divorcing in 1997. He married Kelly Rizzo in 2018.