The Wedding Singer (1998)
The Wedding Singer was the link movie connecting The House Bunny and Jay Kelly.
Linked through Allen Covert and Adam Sandler.
Both Allen Covert and Adam Sandler appeared in The Wedding Singer.
About The Wedding Singer
"He's gonna party like it's 1985!"
Robbie, a local rock star turned wedding singer, is dumped on the day of his wedding. Meanwhile, waitress Julia finally sets a wedding date with her fiancée Glenn. When Julia and Robbie meet and hit it off, they find that things are more complicated than anybody thought.
Directed by Frank Coraci
Written by Tim Herlihy
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Score by Teddy Castellucci
Two soundtrack albums, The Wedding Singer and The Wedding Singer Volume 2, were released in 1998 featuring mostly new wave songs. Although actors performed many songs in the film, the albums mainly contained original versions, background tracks, original songs and dialogue; Ellen Dow's "Rapper's Delight" rendition was used combined with the original. "Somebody Kill Me" was written by Adam Sandler and Tim Herlihy and performed by Sandler.
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The film marks the first collaboration between Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore and was followed by 50 First Dates and Blended, the latter also directed by Frank Coraci.
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The Wedding Singer was adapted into a stage musical that debuted on Broadway in April 2006 and closed on New Year's Eve of the same year.
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Jon Lovitz later reprised his role as Jimmie Moore in an episode of The Goldbergs set during the events of The Wedding Singer, with Sandler, Barrymore and Billy Idol appearing via archival footage.
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Carrie Fisher was brought in as a frequent script doctor to make the female part more balanced, and Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler performed uncredited rewrites of the script.
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Drew Barrymore avoided reading or hearing the songs until the first shoot so her reactions would be spontaneous, while Sandler often made her laugh out of context to keep her on-camera laughs genuine.
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Principal photography was shot in California from February 3 to March 25, 1997.
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