This morning I received good news about the locally made movie, White Wedding. Joy Sapieka sent me an email saying that White Wedding banked its first R1million on opening weekend. Well done!

Joy continued:

The film grossed over R1.1 million at the Box Office this past weekend when it released on circuit in South-Africa. These results are in line with the opening weekend performance of the smash hit SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE ’s gross earnings on its opening weekend in March this year. WHITE WEDDING has garnered 48 000 attendances since its release on Wednesday 29 April, and outperformed X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE at sites like Ster-Kinekor Maponya Mall, Sterland, Savannah Mall, Southgate and The Wheel amongst others.

‘We’ve watched every kind of local audience watching our movie, and what every screening has had in common are the smiles on people’s faces when they leave the theatre. I am elated with the way SA audiences have received the film.’ said director Jann Turner in response to the unprecedented performance of the film to date.
Writer-producer-actor, Kenneth Nkosi concurs: ‘South Africans are sending us a message, they want to see themselves and laugh at themselves on the big screen.’

WHITE WEDDING sold three times more tickets than the hit gangster movie JERUSALEMA did on its opening weekend, and twice as many tickets as Academy Award Winner TSOTSI did at the time of its release.  WHITE WEDDING’s opening weekend gross is comparable to the Martin Lawrence in COLLEGE ROAD TRIP. The film also sold 3% more tickets than Tyler Perry’s WHY DID I GET MARRIED sold on opening weekend.

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