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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Crazy Rich Asians from 2018, and Four wedding and a Funeral from 1994.
Crazy Rich Asians is a 2018 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Jon M. Chu, from a screenplay by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim, based on the 2013 novel of the same title by Kevin Kwan.
The film stars Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Gemma Chan, Lisa Lu, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, and Michelle Yeoh.
It follows a Chinese American professor, Rachel, who travels to Singapore with her boyfriend Nick and is shocked to discover that Nick's family is one of the richest families in Singapore.
The film was announced in August 2012 after the rights to the book were purchased.
Many of the cast members signed on in the spring of 2017, and filming took place from April to June of that year in parts of Singapore, Malaysia, and New York City.
It is the first film by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority cast of Chinese descent in a modern setting since The Joy Luck Club in 1993.
Despite such praises in the United States, the film was also criticized for casting biracial actors over fully ethnically Chinese ones in certain roles.
Additional criticism was also directed at the film for failing to acknowledge Singapore's multiracial demographic by including other Singaporean ethnic groups—such as Malay and Indian actors—as characters, as well as perpetuating stereotypes of East and Southeast Asians.
Crazy Rich Asians premiered on 7 August 2018, at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles and was released theatrically in the United States on 15 August 2018, by Warner Bros. Pictures.
A major critical and commercial success, the film grossed over $238 million on a budget of $30 million, making it the highest-grossing romantic comedy of the 2010s, and received high praise for the performances of its cast, the screenplay, and production design.
The film received numerous accolades, including the 76th Golden Globe Awards nominations for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for Wu.
It received a nomination at the 50th NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Motion Picture.
It also received four nominations at the 24th Critics' Choice Awards, winning one for Best Comedy, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Two sequels, based on the novel's follow-ups China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems, are in development.
Directed by: Jon M. Chu.
Screenplay by: Peter Chiarelli, and Adele Lim.
Based on: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan.
Produced by:, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, and John Penotti.
Starring: Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Gemma Chan, Lisa Lu, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, and Michelle Yeoh.
Cinematography: Vanja Černjul.
Edited by: Myron Kerstein.
Music by: Brian Tyler.
Production companies: SK Global, Starlight Culture, Colour Force, Ivanhoe Pictures, and Electric Somewhere.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures.
Release dates: 7 August 2018 (TCL Chinese Theatre), and 15 August 2018 (United States).
File Length: 120 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $30 million.
Box office: $239 million.
Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell.
It is the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to star Hugh Grant and follows the adventures of Charles (Grant) and his circle of friends through several social occasions as they each encounter romance.
Andie MacDowell co-stars as Charles's love interest Carrie, with Kristin Scott Thomas, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah, Charlotte Coleman, David Bower, Corin Redgrave, and Rowan Atkinson in supporting roles.
The film was made in six weeks, cost under £3 million, and became an unexpected success and the highest-grossing British film in history at the time, with worldwide box office total of $245.7 million, and receiving Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
Additionally, Grant won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and the film won the BAFTA Awards Best Film, Best Direction, and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Scott Thomas.
The film's success propelled Hugh Grant to international stardom, particularly in the United States.
In 1999, Four Weddings and a Funeral was placed 23rd on the British Film Institute's 100 greatest British films of the 20th century.
In 2016, Empire magazine ranked it 21st in their list of the 100 best British films.
A 2017 poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers, and critics for Time Out magazine ranked it the 74th best British film ever.
Curtis reunited director Newell and the surviving cast for a 25th anniversary reunion Comic Relief short entitled One Red Nose Day and a Wedding, which aired in the UK during Red Nose Day on 15 March 2019.
Directed by: Mike Newell.
Written by: Richard Curtis.
Produced by: Duncan Kenworthy.
Starring: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow, James Fleet, John Hannah, Charlotte Coleman, David Bower, Corin Redgrave, and Rowan Atkinson.
Cinematography: Michael Coulter.
Edited by: Jon Gregory.
Music by: Richard Rodney Bennett.
Production Companies: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Channel Four Films, and Working Title Films.
Distributed by: Rank Film Distributors.
Release dates: 20 January 1994 (Sundance), and 13 May 1994 (United Kingdom).
File Length; 112 minutes.
Country: United Kingdom.
Language: English.
Budget: £3 million, ($4.4 million.
Box office: $245.7 million.
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