Shotgun Wedding Trivia | 25 facts about the movie

Shotgun Wedding is an American romantic action comedy film directed by Jason Moore and written by Mark Hammer.

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1. Filmed on location in the Dominican Republic.
2. Jennifer Coolidge and Josh Duhamel play mother-and-son despite being born only eleven years apart.
3. At one point in 2019, Ryan Reynolds was set to star in the film as Tom before Armie Hammer was cast in the role.
4. In January 2021, Hammer exited the project amid social media controversy over alleged leaked private messages of his. He was replaced by Josh Duhamel.
5. Amazon Studios through Prime Video exclusive purchased the film on US distribution due to Lionsgate financial issues to spread out for marketing feature films. Lionsgate will retain theatrical international distribution.
6. The song Jennifer Coolidge starts singing for the wedding guests in the pool is ‘I’ll Be’ by Edwin McCain. The same song is played while Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray dance in ‘A Cinderella Story’ (2004), in which Coolidge also appears.
7. Sonia Braga who plays Jennifer Lopez’s mother, also played Jennifer Lopez’s mother in Angel Eyes (2001)
8. Movie was due to come out last year but was pushed to 2023 instead.
9. Unlike the previous content with Amazon purchase, the film is not available on streaming worldwide due to regulations on theatrical for distributor, Instead the film will play in cinemas internationally.
10. This is the third time Jennifer Lopez and Sonia Braga appeared in a film together. The first time was in Angel Eyes (2001), followed by Bordertown (2007).
11. Josh Duhamel has played opposite both Jennifer Garner (in Love, Simon) and Jennifer Lopez (in this movie), both of whom married Ben Affleck.
12. This production participated in the New York State Governor’s Office of Motion Picture and Television Post Production Credit Program.
13. Special thanks to Galia Lahav House of Couture.
14. This film has benefited from incentives of Law No. 108-10 for Promotion of the Industry in the Dominican Republic – Single Shooting Permit No. 624.
15. The corner of the green carpet/mat could not have been set back on the trap door when the four characters hide.
16. The blood streak across Darcy’s chest changes positions between shots.
17. The brides mother says that she is from Brazil, where the main language is Portuguese. Later she says “Lo siento”, meaning I’m sorry in Spanish.
18. However, her husband’s accent reveals than he is Hispanic (or Hispanophone) and she chooses to address to him in his first language.
19. The obvious CG blue and orange birds flying off by the zip-line.
20. Like in every other Hollywood movie, the plastic wrist ties are very loose and would require little to no effort to remove.
21. After being filmed from February to April of 2021 in Boston and the Dominican Republic, Shotgun Wedding was released in Singapore on December 28, 2022.
22. It was then released on January 27, 2023, by Amazon Studios via Prime Video.
23. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 45% of 114 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.1/10.
24. The website’s consensus reads: “Shotgun Wedding may be just the invitation to escapism that romcom fans and JLo completists are looking for—but most other viewers can safely RSVP no without regrets.”
25. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 46 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.