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Focus Features has set a September 8 global release date for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3. That will give some breadth to the post-Labor Day box office and an option for older female moviegoers, that weekend already having New Line’s The Nun 2 on the schedule. Part 3 was written and directed by the…

Opa! Nia Vardalos revealed the start of production on My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 in Athens yesterday in an Instagram video shot in her hotel near The Plaka. Vardalos will be pulling double duty as the film’s lead Toula Portokalos and its director. Sources tell Deadline that Greece will be the setting for Toula and Ian…

Nia Vardalos reunited with her My Big Fat Greek Wedding costars Louis Mandylor, Lainie Kazan, and Gia Carides to tribute their costar Michael Constantine who died on Aug. 31 at the age of 94. “Friends in real life are why our films are so much fun to make,” she wrote. “Cousin Nikki @gia.carides & brother Nick…

EXCLUSIVE: We have learned first that Netflix has set the cast for their adaptation of Annie Barrows' New York Times bestselling book series Ivy & Bean and that is Emmy Award Nominee Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Emmy Award Winner Jane Lynch, Pretty Little Liars‘ Sasha Pieterse, Oscar nominee Nia Vardalos, Garfield Wilson…

EXCLUSIVE: Scandal alum George Newbern, Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Phil Morris (Doom Patrol) and Dannah Lockett (The Kenan Show) are set for supporting roles opposite Lea Michele, Bryan Greenberg and Charles Michael Davis in ABC's holiday movie Same Time, Next Christmas, from Freeform Studios. In the…

Nia Vardalos is set to star in Suburbs Famous (working title), a dramedy series in development at Bravo, which is produced by Tony Kranrtz and his Flame Ventures, I have learned. Co-written by Vardalos and former Raising Hope showrunner Mike Mariano, Suburbs Famous explores what happens after a suburban housewife…

Coming off the strong box office opening for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, Nia Vardalos has joined the cast of ABC's new thriller drama series The Catch, from Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland, as a recurring. Details about her character are sketchy, but I hear she will play Leah Wells, a neurotic but formidable…

When the first movie makes $245 million in the U.S. alone, it’s only natural to expect a sequel. But it’s been 14 long years between 2002’s certified smash My Big Fat Greek Wedding and its follow-up. What has changed in the meantime? Apparently not much as My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 from writer-star Nia Vardalos…

Proof that not all blockbusters need superheroes or space wizards to make a splash, when the first trailer for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 dropped back in November, the Internet exploded (and so did pageviews on our post.) Clearly, people want to see it. Yet, since then, there’s been nary a peep about the film…

“A long time ago, I had a big, fat Greek wedding,” Nia Vardalos says at the beginning of this trailer. Yes it was — 2002, to be exact. That’s when her one-woman stage show was transformed into one of the biggest indie juggernauts of all time. Fast-forward 13 years, and here comes My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, which…

Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) has booked a recurring role opposite Nick Nolte and Sela Ward in Epix original series Graves, a single-camera half-hour political satire produced by Lionsgate. In Graves, 25 years after his presidency, former Commander in Chief Richard Graves (Nolte) has the epiphany that his…

ABC is premiering the The Great Holiday Baking Show series at 10 PM on November 30 as part of its holiday-themed programmming lineup. Based on the hit UK series The Great British Bake Off and hosted by Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and husband Ian Gomez (Cougar Town), the four-episode The Great Holiday Baking…