Star-studded “joyful comedy of errors” The Wedding Banquet will premiere internationally opening night at the BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival on March 19. The Andrew Ahn-directed film had its domestic premiere on day five of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Considered “consistently amusing and winningly sincere”, The Wedding Banquet is a remake of the 1993 Ang Lee film of the same name. It stars Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang, who previously collaborated with Ahn on the 2022 film Fire Island. One of the original writers, James Schamus, returned to produce and co-write the screenplay with Ahn.

The 2025 story follows two queer couples in Seattle who become entangled in a sham wedding for their own gain. Couple Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) and Lee (Gladstone) need money for another round of IVF while Chris (Yang) and Min (Han Gi-chan) need a green card marriage so Min can stay in the country. Min decides to fund the IVF procedure in exchange for Angela’s hand in marriage. To complicate things further, Min’s Korean grandmother (Oscar winner Youn Yuh-Jung) wants to throw a ceremony and Angela’s mother (Joan Chen) is an LGBTQ+ advocate who is disappointed her daughter is marrying a man.

The teaser for The Wedding Banquet was released by Bleecker Street on January 28. A theatrical release date is set for April 18, 2025.