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Bride Wars (2015 film)

2015 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ18064637 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bride Wars (Chinese: 新娘大作战) is a 2015 Chinese romantic comedy film directed by Tony Chan. The film is a remake of 2009's Bride Wars that starred Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway. It was released in China on August 20, 2015.

Premise

A pair of brides-to-be put their friendship to the test when they battle it out for the perfect wedding scheduled on the same day.

Cast

Angelababy as He Jing

Ni Ni as Ma Li

Zhu Yawen as Luo Dan

Chen Xiao as Kevin

He Jiong as Alexander

Liu Jinshan as Ma Li's father

Wang Yinan as Xiao Bai

Xi Wang as Xiao Rou

Huang Xiaoming as Groom in the opening (Cameo)

Feng Shaofeng as Priest (Cameo)

Jing Boran as TV Host (Cameo)

Du Haitao as Leading workman (Cameo)

Reception

Box office

The film came in at number three in its opening weekend, earning US$24,220,000 (RMB $154,496,958). In its second weekend the film dropped to number seven with $3.34 million. Its two-week total now stands at $27.6 million.

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“Bride Wars (2015 film)” enters the record as 2015 film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bride, Wars and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2015. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bride, Wars and film.
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“Bride Wars (2015 film)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bride, Wars and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18064637. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bride Wars (2015 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.