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Nia Vardalos’ ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3’ Now Filming in Athens

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A post shared by Nia Vardalos (@niavardalos)Vardalos wrote and starred in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” from 2002, which netted her an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay but also proved to be a surprise box office smash for an independent film, soaring through word of mouth to $368 million worldwide after opening to just over half a million dollars against a $5 million budget, setting a plethora of box office records in the process.

The original film was a comedy about a Greek woman named Toula who falls in love with a non-Greek man (John Corbett) and is forced to awkwardly introduce him to her large Greek family and their specific cultural customs.

The sequel in 2016 was released by Universal Pictures and made a respectable $90 million worldwide, though it was hardly a favorite with critics or fans.Last year, actor Michael Constantine, who played Vardalos’ father in the original film, passed away, and Vardalos revealed in another Instagram post that he had told her he would be unable to return for the third film due to his health. .

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