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An updated version of Ang Lee’s 1993 movie of the same name, The Wedding Banquet stars Lily Gladstone (Killers Of The Flower Moon), Kelly Marie Tran (The Last Jedi), Bowen Yang (Wicked) and South Korean star Han Gi-chan as two gay couples and a close group of friends, who become embroiled in each other’s romantic lives in some unexpected ways.

Gladstone and Tran are Lee and Angela, desperate for a family but going through their second failed attempt at IVF. Yang and Han are Chris and Min, living at the bottom of Lee and Angela’s garden and struggling to move forward with their relationship in the face of Min’s wealthy family’s disapproval if he were ever to come out – as well as the imminent expiry of his visa. Min comes up with a solution: he proposes marriage to Angela, so that he can secure a green card,...

The Wedding Banquet has been given a modern twist in Andrew Ahn’s remake of Ang Lee’s classic, and to mark the release we spoke to the talented filmmaker alongside two of his leading stars, Bowen Yang and Han Gi-Chan. We discuss the movie and it’s relevance in a contemporary world, while Yang and Ahn speak of their continuing collaboration, and Gi-Chan chats about his first foray into the English language. Watch the interview in its entirety below.

Bowen Yang, Andrew Ahn & Han Gi-Chan

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Andrew Ahn explores new queer family models and the pressures of cultural traditions in a loving and hilarious update of Ang Lee’s 1993 classic. Lee and Angela are a couple struggling to fund another round of IVF after multiple unsuccessful attempts. Angela’s best friend Chris and his boyfriend Min, an art student from a wealthy Korean family, live in their guesthouse. With...

Within minutes of stepping onto the Warner Bros. lot of The Jennifer Hudson show, this THR reporter stumbles upon an impromptu rehearsal in a hallway that’s instantly recognizable from social media. “Do you want to watch the spirit tunnel?” asks a staffer. That would be a resounding yes for witnessing in person the now-not-so-secret weapon behind the success and longevity of the show: Instead of walk-on music, guests are greeted with a sing-on of a surprise tune performed by the staff, who create a Soul Train-style runway, or “spirit tunnel,” for guests to walk through.

The guests for the pretaped episode are Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran and Han Gi-Chan, and the daytime talk show’s staff has remixed the lyrics of Jagged Edge’s “Let’s Get Married” to incorporate the title of their new rom-com, The Wedding Banquet. As this reporter narrowly escapes being caught...

Shelter PR, the bi-coastal PR firm repping some of the industry’s top talent that’s also a key player in the awards space, has promoted four senior publicists across its Los Angeles and New York offices.

The promotees are Jenny Tversky, Jessica Sze, Stephanie Kazanjian, and Larissa Saenz, who (with the exception of Saenz), worked alongside Shelter PR’s founding Partners — Marla Farrell, Cara Tripicchio and Christine Tripicchio — during their earlier tenure at Wkt Public Relations, the firm now known as Wolf Kasteler PR.

Named Executive Vice President, Tversky will oversee company and staff relations across both coasts. A founding member of Shelter PR, Sze has been promoted to Vice President within the company’s New York office, as has Kazanjian. And then there’s Saenz, who has been named a Vice President of Shelter PR’s Los Angeles office.

In a statement on the promotions, the Shelter Partners said,...

Veteran publicists Jenny Tversky, Stephanie Kazanjian, Jessica Sze and Larissa Saenz have been promoted to new roles at Shelter PR.

The bicoastal PR firm was founded in 2014 by partners Marla Farrell, Cara and Christine Tripicchio after they separated from Wkt Public Relations, where they worked alongside one another for 13 years.

“As we reflect on the past decade since we formed Shelter PR, we attribute the company’s success to our dedicated, innovative and ambitious team,” stated Farrell and the Tripicchios. “It is with immense pride that we recognize the achievements of several of our senior executives with well-deserved promotions, including Jenny Tversky, Stephanie Kazanjian, Jessica Sze and Larissa Saenz, all of whom have established themselves as formidable publicists and trailblazers across both coasts and in the global market. We are excited to witness their continued growth in their new leadership roles.”

Tversky has been named executive VP, overseeing company and staff relations across both coasts.

On Monday April 21 2025, Fox broadcasts The Jennifer Hudson Show!

Season 3 Episode 158 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “The Jennifer Hudson Show” promises to be an exciting one. Airing on Fox, this episode features a lively mix of guests, including actors Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Han Gi-Chan, and Kelly Marie Tran. These talented performers are known for their roles in various films and television shows, and they will bring their unique personalities to the stage.

In addition to the actors, the episode will also introduce a special segment featuring a 4-year-old flag expert. This young guest is sure to amaze everyone with their knowledge and passion for flags. It will be interesting to see how Jennifer Hudson interacts with this little expert and what fun facts they will share about flags from around the world.

As always, Jennifer Hudson will bring her warmth and charm to the show. Viewers can expect engaging conversations,...

Jennifer Hudson welcomes a mix of film stars and a pint-sized prodigy to her show this Monday. The cast of “The Wedding Banquet” – Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Han Gi-Chan, and Kelly Marie Tran – will join Hudson for a conversation about the film, which explores themes of family, cultural identity, and unexpected romance. Adding […]

Jennifer Hudson Show: “Wedding Banquet” Cast, Flag Expert...

On Monday April 21 2025, MyNetworkTV broadcasts The Jennifer Hudson Show!

Season 3 Episode 158 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “The Jennifer Hudson Show” promises an exciting blend of entertainment and heartwarming moments. Scheduled to air on MyNetworkTV, this episode will feature a lineup of talented guests, including Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Han Gi-Chan, and Kelly Marie Tran. These actors are known for their roles in “The Wedding Banquet,” and their appearance is sure to bring laughter and engaging conversations to the show.

In addition to the star-studded guest list, the episode will introduce a remarkable 4-year-old flag expert. This young prodigy is expected to share fascinating insights about flags, showcasing knowledge that might surprise many. The combination of seasoned actors and a talented child expert creates a unique atmosphere that viewers can look forward to.

Jennifer Hudson, as the host, will likely bring her signature warmth and charm to the discussions. With...

Bowen Yang is opening up about baring it all on screen.

The Saturday Night Live actor stars in the new movie The Wedding Banquet, which is a remake of the 1993 Chinese film of the same name in which two queer couples who are friends help each other out with family, while navigating cultural expectations and more.

In one scene in the movie, which was directed and co-written by Andrew Ahn, Bowen flashes his bare butt while jumping out of bed.

Keep reading to find out more…“It was something that for anyone other than Andrew Ahn, I would’ve been like, ‘Let’s talk about coverage,’ and ‘I’m not going to show nip,’ and ‘I’m not going to show butt,’” Bowen told Entertainment Weekly about the scene.

“I would’ve gotten really granular about that,” he continued. “But there was just something about playing the comedy of that scene,...

Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet, based on Ang Lee’s 1993 film of the same name, follows a group of four thirty-somethings dabbling in various hijinks and going through tribulations as it pertains to their queer sexualities.

Set in Seattle, one couple, Lee (Lily Gladstone) and Angela (Kelly Marie Tran), run into some monetary hardships while trying to conceive via IVF treatments. The other couple, and best friends of Lee and Angela, Chris (Bowen Yang) and Min (Han Gi-chan), face a relationship crossroads when Min, facing the soon-to-be expiration of his South Korean visa, is pressured by his business-oriented grandmother (Youn Yuh-jung) to return and run the company. Min’s desire to stay and be with Chris is further jeopardized by the fact that he still hasn’t managed to come out to his grandmother out of fear she will cut him off if he does. So Min, utilizing the potential of his wealthy family,...

David Cronenberg is back with his latest Cannes Film Festival premiere The Shrouds, a blend of body horror, grief, comedy, sex, high-tech graveyards and international intrigue starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger (in three roles), Guy Pearce and Sandrine Holt. Sideshow/Janus Films is opening the film – the first English-language foray by the distributor of Drive My Car and Flow — at three theaters: NYC’s Angelika Film Center and Film at Lincoln Center, and Los Angeles’ AMC Grove.

Cronenberg will be in-person with screenings hosted by Brady Corbet and Richard Kelly, with the iconic director traveling to San Francisco and Chicago later in the week ahead of a move to 250-plus screens, Sideshow’s widest expansion this early in a film’s run.

The director of The Fly, Dead Ringers and Videodrome has “long been one of my favorite filmmakers. It’s his most personal film. I loved it when I...

Upon the release of Michael Mann’s film “Heat” in 1995, cinephiles rejoiced at watching acting legends Robert De Niro and Al Pacino share the screen together for the first time. One can’t help but get that same feeling when seeing legends Youn Yuh-jung and Joan Chen share the screen as their characters bond over a dinner table in “The Wedding Banquet.”

Youn is the legendary South Korean actor whose first American film, “Minari,” landed her an Academy Award for supporting actress. Chen is the Chinese-American actor and director who achieved superstardom in China before starring in 1987’s “The Last Emperor,” which won nine Academy Awards. Since then, she has maintained a busy career not only in Hollywood, but internationally.

In “The Wedding Banquet,” the two are presented as very different parental figures. Youn is the grandmother of Min (played by newcomer Han Gi-Chan), a gay man in love with...

“Fire Island” director Andrew Ahn releases his first foray into writing-directing with “The Wedding Banquet,” which premiered at Sundance earlier this year. The film is co-written with James Schamus, who also worked on Ang Lee‘s original 1993 romantic comedy of the same name. While Lee’s remake featured a green card marriage between a wealthy gay man and his tenant to maintain his New York lifestyle and heteronormative image to his Taiwanese parents, Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet,” this time, takes place on the opposite coast, and adds a Korean American twist.

“The Wedding Banquet” opens in Seattle and immediately pulls out all the stops. Second-generation Chinese American, Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) is happily partnered to Lee (Lily Gladstone), a vocal LGBTQ+-activist. She is only surrounded by friends and family who love her, and seem to have her best interests at heart. Her best friend, queer studies Ph.D.

“Queer theory takes the joy out of being gay!” blurts Bowen Yang’s character Chris in one of several laugh-out-loud yet emotional moments in “The Wedding Banquet,” Korean American filmmaker Andrew Ahn’s fourth feature in just nine years. It’s a “reimagining” rather than a remake of Ang Lee’s beloved 1993 Asian American rom-com classic of the same name.

Chris, who has put his PhD on hold, passes his days as a birder. When his amiable, handsome Korean Mfa art student boyfriend Min (Han Gi-Chan) — in dire need of a green card to avoid being shuttled back to Korea and take rein of a chaebol managed by his astute grandmother played by Yuh-Jung Youn — proposes, Chris, though quite in love with Min, is petrified of committing. How can he, if he can’t commit to even a PhD? As his cousin (Bobo Le) sharply observes, Chris is merely interested...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson for Wbgr-fm on April 17th, 2025, reviewing the new film “The Wedding Banquet,” a remake of a classic film from Ang Lee, from director Andrew Ahn. In theaters April 18th.

Han Gi-chan is Min, a South Korean expatriate living in the U.S. with his lover of five years Chris (Bowen Yang). His family is wealthy, including the grandmother Ja-Young who raised Min and expects him now to get married. On the other same-sex side is Lee (Lily Gladstone) and Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) who are trying to have a child through in-vitro, but it’s not working, even as Angela’s mother May (Joan Chen), is a complete and proud supporter. Both relationships are on the edge as Chris is commitment-phobic and Angela is not sure of the baby thing. It will be up to the grannies to make it right,...

Remaking a film on the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry is hardly a task that one should take lightly. Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet dials up the pressure by adding a Golden Bear victory and Oscar nomination to its mantle. That much acclaim puts a ton of expectation upon the shoulders of whoever would choose to take the leap and bring its romantic comedy 30 years forward into the present. By all accounts, however, Andrew Ahn embraced that weight, enlisting the help of original co-writer James Schamus to perfectly execute the challenge by doubling the number of gay couples within its marital shenanigans and adding a baby for good measure.

Gone are the dating service paid for by the parents of a son who has yet to come out to them as gay and the penniless tenant in need of a green card coaxed to marry him so they go away.

“The Wedding Banquet” may not be the first—or second, or fifth—Ang Lee film that comes to mind upon mention of the Taiwanese legend’s name, but it’s certainly a significant one in his artistic journey. It was Lee’s first Oscar-nominated film, the first of two Lee films to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and also the first of his films to release theatrically in the United States.

This last point is pertinent because “The Wedding Banquet,” as the middle film in Lee’s “Father Knows Best” trilogy, is fundamentally tied to the cultural friction experienced by a Taiwanese-American reckoning with familial duty in a space that feels more like home than his homeland ever did. What may then seem sacrilegious—an American remake—is perhaps the ideal platform upon which to develop Lee’s blueprint for the modern day, if such a...

“Fire Island” director Andrew Ahn releases his first foray into writing-directing with “The Wedding Banquet,” which premiered at Sundance earlier this year. The film is co-written with James Schamus, who also worked on Ang Lee’s original 1993 romantic comedy of the same name. While Lee’s remake featured a green card marriage between a wealthy gay man and his tenant to maintain his New York lifestyle and heteronormative image to his Taiwanese parents, Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet,” this time, takes place on the opposite coast, and adds a Korean American twist.

“The Wedding Banquet” opens in Seattle and immediately pulls out all the stops. Second-generation Chinese American, Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) is happily partnered to Lee (Lily Gladstone), a vocal LGBTQ+-activist. She is only surrounded by friends and family who love her, and seem to have her best interests at heart. Her best friend, queer studies Ph.D.

Andrew Ahn Explains Reimagining “The Wedding Banquet” Based on Ang Lee’s memorable 1993 classic “The Wedding Banquet,” Andrew Ahn decides to update the story with a game cast namely Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, Joan Chen, and Oscar-winner Youn Yuh-jung (“Minari”). Marriage was at the heart of the original story but

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Six years after agreeing to bring a new version of Ang Lee’s landmark 1993 romantic comedy “The Wedding Banquet” to the screen, Andrew Ahn’s adaptation is ready for takeoff. A world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, this new “Wedding Banquet” is a decidedly contemporary tale that is just as poignant as the original was over three decades ago. And Ahn owes a lot of that big screen magic to an incredible cast including “Saturday Night Live” icon Bowen Yang, SAG Award winner Lily Gladstone, “Star Wars” stand out Kelly Marie Tran, South Korean heartthrob Han Gi-chan, and the legendary Joan Chen, and “Minari” Oscar-winner Youn Yuh-jung.

Continue reading Andrew Ahn Learned Star Lily Gladstone Was “A Real One” For Taking On ‘The Wedding Banquet’ at The Playlist.

Well, here comes another film to reflect the season of love, Spring. We’re in a short “window” in which romance rules the multiplex just as the big noisy Summer blockbusters start to trickle in (hopefully the Minecraft chaos and calamity don’t spill into the other screens). Now last week we saw a “first date movie that was also a “thriller-diller” (Drop). And what follows the initial meeting, perhaps much later? The big nuptuals, natch’. As with the former flick, this one is a mix as it can be considered a comedy-drama, or “dramedy’, while also tossing in another element: it’s a remake. And you’re beginning to feel your age when you can recall going to that original film almost 32 years ago. Oh, and some more plot twists are tossed in to add more flavor and a bit of spice to The Wedding Banquet.

Now, the story...

Three months after star Carey Mulligan revealed that production had begun, cameras are still rolling on Season 2 of A24's dark comedy-drama Beef. With a whole new batch of big-name stars, anticipation is running high for what series creator Lee Sung Jin has in store after delivering an acclaimed initial run of episodes that took home eight Emmys in 2024. The shift to an anthology format means viewers will be presented with an entirely new story, dealing with a pair of couples jockeying for power in the elitist world of a Korean billionaire-owned country club instead of Steven Yeun and Ali Wong's rage-filled drivers. At the top of the pyramid will be Academy Award winner Youn Yuh-jung, who's ready to pull back the curtain just a bit on the status of the series and her upcoming role.

In an interview with Collider's Taylor Gates for The Wedding Banquet, the...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Bleecker Street opens “The Wedding Banquet” in theaters Friday, April 18.

In an era when gay marriage is legal, same-sex parenting is commonplace and the decision to build a nuclear family is, for many millennials, complicated not by cultural, sexual or familial impediments but rather ethical and financial ones, it might seem like an odd choice to remake Ang Lee’s 1993 “The Wedding Banquet.” But while watching Andrew Ahn’s amiable dramedy, which expands on the original premise while maintaining its central themes of found family and tolerance, one rarely questions the story’s relevance. More vitally, it lacks panache.

The movie follows a lesbian couple and a gay couple sharing a split-level Seattle residence: Lee (Lily Gladstone) and Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) live in the upper house, while Chris (Bowen Yang) and Min (Han Gi-chan) reside in the converted garage.

Director Andrew Ahn has confirmed that the idea of a sequel to Fire Island remains active in conversations, though no formal development has taken place. The 2022 romantic comedy, set on the LGBTQ vacation destination and loosely inspired by Pride and Prejudice, drew attention for its ensemble cast and contemporary adaptation.

“There’s always been conversation about doing a sequel,” Ahn told Entertainment Weekly. “I don’t know if a real concrete idea has been formed yet, but there are things in the ether.”

Written by and starring Joel Kim Booster, Fire Island follows a group of close friends over one week during their annual trip. Booster plays Noah, who focuses on helping his friend Howie (Bowen Yang) connect with Charlie (James Scully), while resisting his own complicated feelings for Will (Conrad Ricamora). The cast includes Margaret Cho, Zane Phillips, Matt Rogers, Tomas Matos, Torian Miller, and Nick Adams.

The group...

With another summer just around the corner, another ferry to Fire Island could be on the horizon.

Director Andrew Ahn recently revealed there’s “always been conversation about doing a sequel” to his 2022 gay romantic-comedy, which is set at the titular LGBTQ getaway and is loosely inspired by Jane Austen‘s Pride & Prejudice.

“I don’t know if a real concrete idea has been formed yet, but there are things in the ether,” he told Entertainment Weekly.

Ahn noted that writer and star Joel Kim Booster “always jokes that it’s going to be like the Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That, where it’s 30 years later and they’re older and gayer. … We’ll see what happens.”

The movie stars Booster as Noah, who enjoys one final trip with his friends to Fire Island while trying to help his best friend Howie (Bowen Yang) hook...

“Sinners” is aiming for $45 million to $50 million in its domestic box office debut. Will those ticket sales be enough to dethrone the reigning champ, “A Minecraft Movie”?

In the case of “Sinners,” Warner Bros. is offering a softer range between $35 million and $40 million, while rivals and independent tracking services believe the final number could land above $50 million. Anywhere around $40 million would be solid for the original, R-rated vampire thriller, directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan in dual roles. The film is projected to bring in $10 million to $15 million at the international box office. “Sinners” cost $90 million to produce before factoring in global marketing expenses.

Meanwhile “A Minecraft Movie,” another Warner Bros. release, is looking to collect a mighty $40 million to $45 million in its third weekend of release. Either way, a Warner Bros. film will take the top two spots on box office charts. That’s a relief...

Spoiler Warning: This interview contains plot details from “The Wedding Banquet,” in theaters on Friday.

Kelly Marie Tran is having something like a breakthrough in her career — and she’s not taking it for granted.

Over the past few years, things have made a 180 from the period of her life when Tran was facing racist and sexist vitriol from toxic “Star Wars” fans after she joined the blockbuster sci-fi franchise as Rose Tico in 2017’s “The Last Jedi.”

“I’ve been able to learn how to celebrate the parts of myself that, at the time, I was scared of, or I was made to feel like I had to be ashamed of,” Tran tells Variety. “This past year, I did four movies, and they were all Asian stories with Asian writer-directors, and a few of those were also queer writer-directors. I remember looking back and thinking, ‘Wow! How crazy is...

The cast of The Wedding Banquet is ready for the world to see their new movie!

Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran and Han Gi-chan hit the red carpet for the premiere on Monday night (April 14) at AMC The Grove 14 in Los Angeles.

The cast was joined by director Andrew Ahn. One day earlier, all of them, except for Bowen, attended a drag brunch to celebrate the movie. See those photos in the gallery!

The movie is a remake of the 1993 Chinese film of the same name in which two couples who are friends help each other out with family, while navigating cultural expectations and more.

In a new interview, Bowen opened up about how the original film connects to his own coming out story.

Keep reading to find out more…

“It ends on this very uncertain tone, where he says bye to his parents, who know who he is now,...

After her somber, awards-nominated roles in Killers of the Flower Moon and Under the Bridge, Lily Gladstone has quickly established herself as a top dramatic actress in Hollywood — but she wants you to know she can do comedy, too.

Gladstone makes a rom-com pivot with The Wedding Banquet, starring alongside Bowen Yang, Kelly Marie Tran and Han Gi-chan in a remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 original Taiwanese-American film. Gladstone and Tran play a lesbian couple, with Tran’s character, Angela, agreeing to marry Han’s character, Min — who is dating Yang’s Chris — to get him a green card, in exchange for paying for her IVF treatment. Things quickly get complicated when Min’s grandmother discovers he’s getting married.

For Gladstone, taking on a comedy “felt like a return to origin. I’m naturally kind of a goofy person; when I was a kid and thought I had any...

When preparing to play a pair of couples for Andrew Ahn’s reimagining of “The Wedding Banquet,” Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, and Han Gi-chan felt the best way to go about it was to take in the challenges of real-life relationships. During a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, the cast reflected on their shared viewing of the Showtime docu-series “Couples Therapy,” which features actual sessions between partners and therapist Orna Guralnik, and how it helped bring them together.

“The ‘Couples Therapy’ viewing, I think, was very instrumental in accelerating something between the four of us,” said Yang, who was the one to suggest the show ahead of the fourth season. “I will always cherish those moments of us watching it together.”

Despite not watching a lot of reality TV, Gladstone “loved” watching “Couples Therapy” together and allowing it to inform the character she would be playing.

When filmmaker Andrew Ahn was eight, his mother rented Ang Lee’s 1993 film The Wedding Banquet from a video store owing to its status as an Asian film that white people were interested in. Unbeknownst to them, the titular wedding is but a front for a bisexual Taiwanese immigrant to get his green card and remain in America. The moment, something akin to an origin story, was also an awakening for a filmmaker who’d take particular interest in depicting the gay Asian-American experience on screen.

Released at a time when marriage is a significantly less static institution, Ahn’s remake, crafted in tandem with original co-writer James Schamus, also packs a subversive punch. In his reimagining of The Wedding Banquet, a quartet of queer friends living together in Seattle go all-in on an elaborate fake Korean wedding so Min (Han Gi-chan) can remain in America with boyfriend Chris (Bowen Yang...

While our sprawling summer movie preview will arrive by the end of the month, we’ll first take a comprehensive look at the April releases to have on your radar. Featuring festival favorites from as far back as early last year finally getting a theatrical run to at least one studio tentpole that piques our interest, dive in below.

13. Magic Farm (Amalia Ulman; April 25)

While not quite delivering on the promise she showed in her first feature El Planeta, Amalia Ulman’s Magic Farm is a zany odyssey that finds the satire in Vice News-type journalism. Kent M. Wilhelm said in his Sundance review, “I was sold on the premise of satirizing opportunistic content creators who play dress-up as journalists, but weaving that into the storylines of the ensemble cast is no easy task for a sophomore feature. The plot gets lost; when it feels like there’s too much going on,...

"It starts with love, it gets into trouble because of love, and ends for love." Bleecker Street has debuted a charming featurette for the ensemble comedy The Wedding Banquet, a brand new modern day remake of the 1993 Ang Lee movie of the same name. Arriving in theaters this April! Go watch it! This time the story features four people living together in one house: two gay men and two lesbian women in relationships. Korean Min makes a deal with his lesbian friend: a green-card marriage for him, in exchange for costly IVF treatments for her. But their plans to quietly elope are upended when Min's skeptical grandmother flies in right from Korea unannounced, insisting on an all-out wedding extravaganza. Starring Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, Bobo Le, Joan Chen, and Academy Award winner Youn Yuh-jung, this fresh reimagining of Ang Lee’s beloved, rom-com teems with...

Bowen Yang is getting real about starring in Wicked and being the face of Saturday Night Live.

The American actor delighted audiences at BFI Flare, the London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival, during a screen talk on Thursday in the British capital.

Speaking with his podcast co-host Matt Rogers, Yang was asked about how much he was allowed to ad-lib on Jon M. Chu’s Wicked set and feeling daunted by the “passion” of fellow stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo.

“I was daunted by the biblical precision and just the passion that everybody was bringing to it,” Yang said. “[But] we’re all in over our heads, everyone except Jon, right? He was the only person who needed to be above water with it and steer the ship. The rest of us were kind of out to sea.”

Yang said that Chu would “prank” him by asking him to improvise after scripted takes,...

Lily Gladstone, Han Gi-Chan, Kelly Marie Tran, and Bowen Yang are hitting the red carpet at BFI Flare 2025!

The co-stars posed for photos together at the opening gala screening of their new movie The Wedding Banquet on Wednesday (March 19) held at BFI Southbank in London, England.

Fellow cast members in attendance included Joan Chen and Bobo Le along with director Andrew Ahn.

Nicola Coughlan and Matt Rogers also attended the screening.

Here’s a synopsis: Angela (Tran) and her partner Lee (Gladstone) have been unlucky with their IVF treatments, but can’t afford to pay for another round. Meanwhile their friend Min (Gi-chan), the closeted scion of a multinational corporate empire, has plenty of family money but a soon-to-expire student visa. When his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris (Yang) rejects his proposal, Min makes the offer to Angela instead: a green card marriage in exchange for funding Lee’s IVF. But their...

Having delivered one of the best queer rom-coms in recent years with 2022's Austenian blast Fire Island, all eyes have been on director Andrew Ahn to see what the Asian American filmmaker's next feature has in store for us. And what's in store, as it goes, is a buzzy reimagining of Ang Lee's seminal 1993 effort The Wedding Banquet, one of the best queer rom-coms of yesteryear. Led by Killers Of The Flower Moon Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone, The Last Jedi's Kelly Marie Tran, SNL alum (and Fire Island collaborator) Bowen Yang, and South Korean star Han Gi-Chan, Ahn's movie follows two queer couples — Lee (Gladstone) and Angela (Tran), and Chris (Yang) and Min (Han) — whose efforts to help each other out quickly descend into chaos. Check out the trailer below;

Co-written by the original movie's co-scribe James Schamus, this first trailer for The Wedding Banquet neatly illustrates why...

The full trailer for the upcoming comedy The Wedding Banquet is here!

Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran and Han Gi-chan all star as two couples who are friends that help each other out with family, while navigating cultural expectations and more.

Keep reading to find out more…

Here’s a synopsis: Angela (Tran) and her partner Lee (Gladstone) have been unlucky with their IVF treatments, but can’t afford to pay for another round. Meanwhile their friend Min (Gi-chan), the closeted scion of a multinational corporate empire, has plenty of family money but a soon-to-expire student visa. When his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris (Yang) rejects his proposal, Min makes the offer to Angela instead: a green card marriage in exchange for funding Lee’s IVF. But their plans to quietly elope are upended when Min’s skeptical grandmother flies in from Korea unannounced, insisting on an all-out wedding extravaganza.

"This is absurd! All so you can get a green card." Bleecker Street has revealed the full official trailer for the ensemble comedy The Wedding Banquet, a brand new modern day remake of the 1993 Ang Lee movie of the same anme. This time the story features four people living together in one house: two gay men and two lesbian women in relationships. Korean Min makes a deal with his lesbian friend: a green-card marriage for him, in exchange for costly IVF treatments for her. But their plans to quietly elope are upended when Min's skeptical grandmother flies in right from Korea unannounced, insisting on an all-out wedding extravaganza. With a pitch-perfect cast of talent that includes Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, Bobo Le, Joan Chen, and Academy Award winner Youn Yuh-jung, this fresh reimagining of Ang Lee’s beloved, rom-com teems with humor & heart in a...

Audiences won’t have to wait too long to see Lily Gladstone (“Killers of The Flower Moon”) on the big screen as she’s part of a new romantic comedy “The Wedding Banquet” which is heading to theaters next month and we can share a trailer for the pic helmed and co-written by Andrew Ahn.

Gladstone co-stars alongside Bowen Yang (“Wicked”), Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-Chan (“Our Song”), Joan Chen (“Dìdi”), and Oscar-winning actress Youn Yuh-jung as we see a group of friends that attempt to solve growing adulthood problems such as staying in the country to avoid deportation and getting pregnant using IVF as complications arise.

Continue reading ‘The Wedding Banquet’ Trailer: Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran & More Star In New Rom-Com On April 18 at The Playlist.

Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures released the trailer for Andrew Ahn’s upcoming romantic comedy The Wedding Banquet on Monday morning.

Starring Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Chan and Han Gi-Chan, the Seattle-set film is a reimagining of Ang Lee’s 1993 film of the same name. The trailer shows two couples — Lee (Gladstone) and Angela (Tran), and Chris (Yang) and Min (Han) — at a crossroads. Lee and Angela want to start a family but don’t have the money for IVF treatments. Chris and Min want to stay together, but Min’s visa is about to run out and he hasn’t come out to his grandmother, who will will cut him off if he does.

Min, from a wealthy family in Korea, suggests Angela marries him to solve the visa (and grandmother) problem in exchange for him paying for the couple’s IVF treatments. The film, which premiered at Sundance last month,...

The latest from Driveways and Fire Island director Andrew Ahn is The Wedding Banquet, a remake of the Ang Lee classic. The film brings together Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang, Kelly Marie Tran, Joan Chen, Han Gi-chan, and Youn Yuh-jung, with a script co-written with James Schamus, who co-wrote and produced the original 1993 rom-com. Following its Sundance premiere and ahead of Bleecker Street’s spring release on April 18, a new trailer has now arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “From Director Andrew Ahn comes a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating the disasters and delights of family expectations, queerness, and cultural identity. Angela and her partner Lee have been unlucky with their IVF treatments, but can’t afford to pay for another round. Meanwhile their friend Min, the closeted scion of a multinational corporate empire, has plenty of family money but a soon-to-expire student visa. When his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris rejects his proposal,...

If hearing him on “Las Culturistas” and seeing him in “Wicked” and on “Saturday Night Live” wasn’t enough, Bowen Yang is headed back to the big screen alongside Academy Award-nominee Lily Gladstone, and Kelly Marie Tran in “The Wedding Banquet.” Yang is also joined by “Fire Island” collaborator Andrew Ahn, who serves as director and co-writer on this remake of the classic 1993 LGBTQ rom-com from Ang Lee. Watch the trailer for the film below.

Co-written by the original film’s scribe James Schamus and also starring Han Gi-Chan, Joan Chen, and Oscar-winner Yuh-Jung Youn, the official synopsis for the film reads, “‘The Wedding Banquet’ follows a chosen family of four friends each struggling to navigate their adulthood responsibilities and relationships. Angela (Tran) and her partner Lee (Gladstone) have had repeated unsuccessful IVF treatments, and the financial strain is worsening. Min (Han) and his commitment-phobic boyfriend, Chris (Yang), can’t...

The fourth entry in the popular Bridget Jones film franchise, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, is set to debut on Peacock and theatrically in other parts of the globe in time for Valentine's Day. Released nine years after the previous film, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy sees Renée Zellweger reprise her iconic role as Bridget Jones, who is attempting to re-enter the dating scene as a single mother after the death of her husband, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth in the previous films). The reviews are in, and it looks like Bridget Jones is back baby...but not to be confused with Bridget Jones Baby.

Bridget Jones Baby debuted on Rotten Tomatoes at 83% based on 12 reviews. Donald Clarke of The Irish Times gave the movie a 4/5 rating and said, "Mad About the Boy says things worth hearing about grief and the realities of aging. It is hard to imagine...

Don’t call it a remake, it’s a reimagining. In the case of Andrew Ahn’s take on Ang Lee’s 1993 romantic comedy “The Wedding Banquet,” that couldn’t be more true. For the “Driveways” filmmaker’s latest film, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival before its upcoming spring release, reimagining, freshening up, and contemporizing the story of a young gay Taiwanese immigrant who lies to his parents about his romantic status and ends up falling into a green card marriage to a woman, was top of mind.

Ahn’s take on the film has some canny tweaks: Our star (Han Gi-chan) and his character are now Korean, while his eventual fake wife Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) is already in her own same-sex relationship with Lee (Lily Gladstone). There are plenty more updates to the story, but the personal touches the cast and crew brought to it seem particularly special.

As my first Sundance Film Festival comes to a close amid a precarious time for my community and many others, I look back on this year’s cinematic lineup with some optimism for LGBTQ representation when it’s needed most. From dark comedies about human connection to heartfelt family dramas about the shared queer experience and documentaries about the detriments of censorship and anti-trans legislation, filmmakers are holding space for progress, despite growing government-facilitated rollbacks on transgender and LGBTQ rights.

While discussing her new Mark Anthony Green-helmed A24 horror Opus at Deadline’s Sundance Studio, Ayo Edebiri admitted it “feels maybe slightly psychotic at times” to look at the news in what happened to be the first days of 2025 amid President Donald Trump’s second term in office.

“But my hope is that for me and that for other artists, that we continue to just champion each other’s work.

It's common knowledge that our society has such a long way to go before truly, fully normalizing and accepting people of color and queer artists and narratives in the mainstream. Yet despite the continuing struggle, it's important to recognize just how far minorities in cinema have come, and how enduring these films continue to be. As evidence, filmmaker Andrew Ahn's remake of "The Wedding Banquet" just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and the movie marks a milestone of sorts in Poc and queer cinema. As Ahn told the premiere screening's audience, he first saw the 1993 Ang Lee version of "The Wedding Banquet" as a child thanks to his mother renting it one night during a trip to the video store, telling her son that she wanted to see the movie about Asian-Americans that all the white people were watching.

As Ahn confessed, viewing that film at a young age was a formative experience,...

The American gay rights movement’s focus on marriage equality in the early 21st century wasn’t without controversy. For some, putting a premium on an arrangement so associated with heterosexual orthodoxy sold out the promise of gay liberation. Legally recognized unions represented to them an attempt to erase, not embrace, the differences within a community whose members had each other’s backs long before the federal government did.

Such conflicting views are highlighted in Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet, a film whose very title speaks to the nature of nuptials. The ceremony to which the film builds is flashy but also a façade covering up true acceptance for a coterie of queer characters. Leave it to Lily Gladstone’s Lee, an Indigenous organizer devoted to making youth of all sexual orientations feel empowered, to harmonize the opposing feelings about marriage. She’s less concerned about honoring the institution...

The cast of “The Wedding Banquet” had a blast filming the remake of the landmark 1993 dramedy by Ang Lee — all except for Joan Chen and writer-director Andrew Ahn.

Kelly Marie Tran, Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone and “Our Song” actor Han Gi-chan play the principal characters: Yang is Chris, a gay man whose boyfriend, Min (Han), agrees to marry their lesbian friend, Angela (Tran), for a green card in exchange for in vitro fertilization treatment. When word gets out to their older, more traditional family overseas, a larger wedding banquet is thrown together and Chris is in part responsible with planning the ruse.

“These four kids, I was so envious of them. They were always having fun,” recalled Chen, who plays Chris’ mom, at TheWrap’s Sundance Studio presented by World of Hyatt.

“You just wanted the gummies!,” Yang teased her, revealing that CBD gummies were available on the set, just not for Chen.

Bleecker Street has debuted the teaser trailer for the remake of Ang Lee’s comedy of errors ‘The Wedding Banquet.’

The movie follows a chosen family navigating the disasters and delights of family expectations, queerness, and cultural identity. Angela and her partner Lee have been unlucky with their IVF treatments, but can’t afford to pay for another round. Meanwhile, their friend Min, the closeted scion of a multinational corporate empire, has plenty of family money but a soon-to-expire student visa. When his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris rejects his proposal, Min makes the offer to Angela instead: a green card marriage in exchange for funding Lee’s IVF. But their plans to quietly elope are upended when Min’s sceptical grandmother flies in from Korea unannounced, insisting on an all-out wedding extravaganza.

Directed by Andrew Ahn, the cast includes Bowen Yang, Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan,...

The highly anticipated remake of The Wedding Banquet has dropped its first trailer, giving audiences a glimpse into the heartfelt and comedic story of a green-card marriage gone wrong. Directed by Andrew Ahn, the film is a modern reimagining of Ang Lee’s 1993 classic and has already received praise following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

The story follows two queer couples—Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) and Lee (Lily Gladstone), and Chris (Bowen Yang) and Min (Han Gi-chan)—who find themselves entangled in a complicated arrangement. Angela and Lee have struggled with unsuccessful IVF treatments but can’t afford another attempt.

Meanwhile, Min, who comes from a wealthy but conservative family, is in a tough spot as his student visa is about to expire. After his boyfriend Chris turns down his marriage proposal, Min makes an unconventional offer to Angela—he’ll pay for her IVF treatment if she...