{"id":33759,"date":"2014-05-27T20:42:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T00:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=33759"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:45:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:45:42","slug":"my-big-fat-greek-wedding-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/27\/my-big-fat-greek-wedding-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING Is Getting A Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MyBigFatGreekWedding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33760\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MyBigFatGreekWedding.jpg\" alt=\"MyBigFatGreekWedding\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MyBigFatGreekWedding.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MyBigFatGreekWedding-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Writer\/actress Nia Vardalos is getting ready to say her vows again. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2014\/05\/back-to-altar-with-my-big-fat-greek-wedding-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> is reporting that the writer and star of the 2002 hit independent comedy <strong>My Big Fat Greek Wedding<\/strong> has finished the screenplay for a sequel. Vardalos will be joined on-screen by her <strong>Wedding<\/strong> co-star and groom John Corbett as well as various members of her character&#8217;s extended, trouble causing family.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Vardalos said &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now that I\u2019m experiencing motherhood, I\u2019m ready to write the next chapter of my family story. Of course a few jaded folks in the press corps will claim I ran out of money or just want to kiss John Corbett again. One of these things is true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although the film was produced for approximately $5 million, it grossed over $368 million worldwide, making it one of the most successful indie films of all time.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that Vardalos revisited the Portokalos clan of the film. In 2003, the film spun off the television series <em>My Big Fat Greek Life<\/em>, though it did poorly in the ratings and only lasted one season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Writer\/actress Nia Vardalos is getting ready to say her vows again.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/27\/my-big-fat-greek-wedding-sequel\/\" title=\"MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING Is Getting A Sequel\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1693,7281,1694],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-my-big-fat-greek-wedding","9":"tag-my-big-fat-greek-wedding-2","10":"tag-nia-vardalos"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33759"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=33759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}