Zainab balogun in the wedding party

Photos 14 Add photo. Top cast 18 Edit. Adeolu Adefarasin Kevin. Alibaba Akporobome Bamidele Coker. Zainab Balogun Wonu. Stephen Damian Groom's man. Daniella Down Deardre Winston. Iretiola Doyle Lady Obianuju Onwuka. Emmanuel Edunjobi Pastor Leke. Kunle Idowu Harrison. Jennifer Igbinovia Lady at Church. Somkele Iyamah-Idhalama Yemisi Disu. Ayo Makun MC.

Beverly Naya Rosie. These four companies now came together to make The Wedding Party and in truth, no one company would have made this film with extras, 75 crew members, 20 lead cast, 40 different contractors, about 20 luxury cars. It was a big and highly technical production and we needed to come together to show that it was possible.

Surely there was friction, fights and so on but that is expected and all was sorted amicably since we are forward thinking adults. It is a project through which we wanted to show the world that we are thinking big; we wanted to do a blockbuster film. A big budget film is something crucial I had been pushing FilmOne to do as a company that is the largest cinema chain in West Africa, and a number one distribution company now making its name in film production.

We did Chasing Hanifa , the Hausa film hugely popular in the north, Lunch Time Heroes the family movie that has made money in ancillary sales and Taxi Driver , so we have built up an expertise in making particular films, which were all independent movies. For a company of our scale, I thought we should not be competing with independent filmmakers and so the vision to my boss Kene Mkparu was to make a big budget film.

He had the idea of us working with a Hollywood studio like 20 th Century Fox and we started a conversation but The Wedding Party came before that pending project. Mo wanted something which I find key to the story. It is a simple story; two families wanting to marry into each other after boy meets girl. Usually these stories are about one family being rich and the other poor but Mo asked what if the two families are rich?

Let us tell a different story about us Africans and show the reality of the middle class and the affluent. We are not necessarily only hungry people and permanent beggars and terrorists. So we get two people married; one has old money, the educated ones during the time of our Independence. They went to Harvard, their parents went too and they also educated their children there as it is kind of family university.

Zainab balogun in the wedding party

This family is Ibo, they are prim and proper and can use any type of cutlery. Then you have a Yoruba family with new money. They are a middleclass family who saved up to send their children to school abroad and like their local food eaten with hands because they feel cutlery is overrated. Then suddenly, through a childhood friend, the head of the family gets an oil well.

So this middle class family suddenly becomes stinking rich. Our daughter is getting married, Eko won ma gbo! Lagos will hear it! We spent a good amount of time in pre-production to ensure a smooth run of actual filming. At the budget we were working with, anything more than 18 days would not have made any economic sense. The budget was about N60 million in cash and N million in value.

We shot the film was shot in Lagos, spending six days at Eko Hotel and Suites. Where to watch Watch for free Synopsis Trailers Similar titles. Watch Now List. All Subscription Free Rent Buy. Watch on Prime Video for free. Stream Free. Free with ads retail price. Didn't find what you were looking for? Notify me. Synopsis A lavish wedding escalates into pure Lagosian chaos, in this wild romcom produced by media mogul Mo Abudu.

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