On April 20 Kyivstar TV, a joint platform of 1+1 Media group and Kyivstar, will exclusively premiere the most popularUkrainian comedy of 2021, Crazy Wedding 3.
The film made by FILM.UA Group and Prototype Production, directed by Lyubomyr Levytsky and produced by YuriyGorbunov, Iryna Kostyuk and Nadia Korotushka, was released in cinemas on February 25, 2021 and during that timewon great appreciation of the audience, which is confirmed by the box office. In the first week of distribution, the project collected over 10 milion UAH. During the whole period of theatrical screenings lasting for seven weeks now, the total box office of Crazy Wedding 3 went over one million USD (and this is over 297 thousand tickets).
“The reality changes, and our film market changes with it, so everyone who due to closed cinemas or 50% of allowed cinema capacity did not manage to see the third part of the legendary franchise will be able to do so online legally very soon. This will be possible thanks to our partners, Kyivstar and 1+1 Media,” said Yuriy Gorbunov, film producer.
Thanks to the film’s digital premiere on April 20 it became available for exclusive viewing online, appearing in thelibrary of Kyivstar TV platform.
“It is delightful to start the year from a really notable event as the fifth film with a million-dollar box office from FILM.UAin national distribution just in a month and a half makes it to Kyivstar TV platform exclusively. And despite lockdowns and other restrictions everyone can enjoy this great movie online. We are happy to be a part of such important event and promise many more pleasant surprises for our users in the future,” said Pavlo Rybak, head of Kyivstar TV project from 1+1 Media side.
“We are happy that subscribers of Kyivstar and other mobile operators will be able to see this film on Kyivstar TVplatform and support Ukrainian cinema in this way. This is going to be the first film you can pay for with a credit card and save it in your library. And thanks to the biggest 4G network from Kyivstar you can view it anywhere, anytime without paying for traffic,” said Pavlo Daniman, marketing director at Kyivstar.
The movie is the third part of Crazy Wedding franchise, with the first two parts premiered in 2018 and 2019 respectively. The viewers are in for a sequel to wedding stories of Seredyuk family, only now the time has come for the youngest son Zakhar to tie the knot. Zakhar’s bride is the daughter of Roma baron Rada who melted the Seredyuks’ hearts and found a common language with them. However, this did not guarantee a regular festivity, and the audience will see how the events of the third “crazy” wedding will unfold.
Traditionally for the franchise, the celeb cast of Crazy Wedding 3 is impressed: Yuriy Gorbunov, Potap (OleksiyPotapenko), Pozitiv (Oleksiy Zavgorodniy), Petro Bumper and Oleg Vynnyk are joined in the third film by new facesyet unseen in the crazy film Universe: Nadia Meykher, Anna Trincher and Valeria Tovstoles. The cast was complemented by young actors Vyacheslav Khostikoyev and Kateryna Fine who played the roles of groom and bride. Besides, favorite characters from the first two parts are coming back, namely those played by Nazar Zadniprovsky, Lesya Samayeva, Polina Vasylyna, Jimmy Voha-Voha, Oleksandr Kobzar, Vira Kobzar, Inna Prykhodko and Aram Arzumanyan. The role of bride’s father was played by Ihor Krykunov, people’s artist of Ukraine, and the actors of “Romance” theatre will recreate a real Roma camp with songs, horses and all the works!
You can watch Crazy Wedding 3 and other favorite projects by subscribing to Kyivstar online TV. One of the service’s advantages is the possibility to watch content from five different gadgets at once: smartphones, tablets, laptops, Smart TVs, or TV tuners.
Info on Kyivstar TV:
Kyivstar TV is a joint project of 1+1 Media and Kyivstar founded on December 11, 2019. This is an online television platform, which provides the subscribers with access to hundreds of thousands of hours of Ukrainian and international content and live programs, consistently offering exclusive pre-premiere project broadcasts. Its advantage is the possibility to view content from five different gadgets at once: smartphones, tablets, laptops, Smart TVs, or TV tuners. As of early April 2021, the platform offered 262 TV channels and a VOD library with 10,000 films and series totaling over 50 thousand hours.
Info on Kyivstar:
Kyivstar is the biggest Ukrainian telecommunications operator chosen by almost 26 million subscribers of mobile communications and over 1 million users of“Home Internet”. The company provides services using a wide range of mobile and fixed technologies, including 4G. Presently 87.4 per cent of Ukrainian population live on the territory of Kyivstar LTE coverage. The company is a leader at the market of mobile communications, fixed Internet and convergent services (communications, Internet, television). Kyivstar provides innovative solutions using Big Data, IoT, cloud solutions, mobile financial services, and others. For startups, a unique Open API platform was created, which enables the developers to use the operator’s analytical data for their own digital products. Kyivstar shareholders are VEON international group with a head office in the Netherlands. The Group’s shares are traded on stock markets, namely NASDAQ (New York) and Euronext (Amsterdam). Kyivstar has been working in Ukraine for 23 years, recognized as the most expensive Ukrainian brand, the biggest taxpayer in thecommunications field, the best employer, and a socially responsible company.
Additional information: pr@kyivstar.net, www.kyivstar.ua.
Info on Crazy Wedding 3:
Country: Ukraine
Premiere: February 25, 2021
Studio: FILM.UA GROUP, Prototype Production with the support of Ukrainian State Film Agency
Distributors: Kinomania and FILM.UA Distribution
Type: theatrical film
Timing: 98 mins
Genre: comedy
Director: Lyubomyr Levytsky
Producers: Yuriy Gorbunov, Iryna Kostyuk, Nadia Korotushka, MOZGI Entertainment (Iryna Gorova, Oleksiy Potapenko)
Music producer: Potap (Oleksiy Potapenko)
Composers: Oleksiy Potapenko, Volodymyr Kagarlyk and Dmytro Stepanov
Screenwriters: Mykola Kutsyk, Oleksiy Prykhodko
Cast: Kateryna Fine, Vyacheslav Khostikoyev, Nazar Zadniprovsky, Lesya Samayeva, Polina Vasylyna, Jimmy Voha-Voha, Yuriy Gorbunov, , Oleksandr Kobzar, Vira Kobzar, Inna Prykhodko, Aram Arzumanyan, Potap (Oleksiy Potapenko), Pozitiv (Oleksiy Zavgorodniy), Oleg Vynnyk, Petro Bumper (Oleksiy Suprun), Nadia Meykher, Anna Trincher, Valeriya Tovstoles, Ihor Krykunov, Petro Chorniy, Rymma Shapovalova, and others.
