when was my big fat greek wedding filmed
2002
title: My Big Fat Greek Wedding text: My Big Fat Greek Wedding My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 romantic comedy film directed by Joel Zwick and written by Nia Vardalos, who also stars in the film as Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos, a middle class Greek American woman who falls in love with non-Greek upper middle class White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Ian Miller. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and, at the 75th Academy Awards, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. A sleeper hit, the film became the highest-grossing romantic comedy of all time, and grossed $241.4 million in North America, title: My Big Fat Greek Wedding text: Gary Goetzman overheard actor John Corbett (who was in town shooting the film "Serendipity") at a bar, telling a friend of his about having read the script for "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", and being upset that he couldn't make the auditions. Vardalos and Goetzman approached Corbett and offered him the part of Ian Miller on the spot, which he accepted. Despite being based on life in the Greek community of Winnipeg, the film was set in Chicago and shot in both Toronto and Chicago. Toronto's Ryerson University and Greektown neighborhood feature prominently in the film. The home used to title: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 text: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 is a 2016 American romantic comedy film directed by Kirk Jones and written by Nia Vardalos. The film stars Vardalos, John Corbett, Lainie Kazan, Michael Constantine, Andrea Martin, Ian Gomez and Elena Kampouris. It is the sequel to the 2002 film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding". Filming began in late May 2015 in Toronto. The film was released on March 25, 2016 by Universal Pictures. The film grossed $88.9 million worldwide against a $18 million budget. Toula Portokalos-Miller's (Nia Vardalos) life is in shambles. Her travel agency and title: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 text: about a sequel again in a November 2012 interview, she stated: On May 27, 2014, various news and media outlets reported that a sequel was in the works. Vardalos later confirmed this via Twitter, and wrote the script for the film. Universal Pictures acquired the US distribution rights to the film on November 11, 2014, and Kirk Jones was set to direct, based on the script by Vardalos, who also starred. Principal photography began on May 10, 2015 in Toronto, and ended on June 28. In May 2015, Universal set the film for a March 25, 2016 release. "My Big title: My Big Fat Greek Wedding text: summer, including a wide release in the United States on August 2. "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" became a sleeper hit and grew steadily from its limited release. Despite never hitting the number one spot and being an independent film with a $5 million budget, it ultimately grossed over $368.7 million worldwide, becoming one of the top romantic films of the 21st century. It was the fifth highest-grossing film of 2002 in the United States and Canada, with USD$241,438,208, and the highest-grossing romantic comedy in history. Domestically, it also held the record for the highest-grossing film never having been number