Lionsgate’s picked up the comedy The Big Wedding and has set an October 19, 2012 release date for film. Justin Zackham (The Bucket List) wrote, produced, and is directing The Big Wedding starring Robert De Niro, Susan Sarandon, Diane Keaton, Katherine Heigl, Amanda Seyfried, Robin Williams, Ben Barnes, and Topher Grace.
Production is currently underway in Greenwich, Connecticut.
“The Big Wedding is a charming, rollicking movie that promises to be an instant intergenerational family comedy classic,” explains Joe Drake, President of Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group, of the film’s appeal to the studio.
“We are thrilled to be in business once again with Avi [Lerner, producer] and Nu Image,” adds Jason Constantine, Lionsgate’s President of Acquisitions and Co-Productions. “After our success together with action genre films like The Expendables and the upcoming Conan the Barbarian, this film presented a wonderful opportunity to expand our collaborative horizons into the realm of broad comedy.”
The Plot: The film centers around Don (De Niro) and Ellie (Keaton), a long-divorced couple being forced to pretend that they are still happily married at their son’s wedding. Among all of their family and friends, the hoax snowballs into a poignant and raucously funny story about the ties that bind.
