Editing Four Weddings and a Funeral (section)

==Release==
''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' had its world premiere in January 1994 at the [[Sundance Film Festival]] in [[Salt Lake City, Utah]].<ref name="20 Years On"/>

It opened in the United States on 11 March 1994 in five theatres. The box office receipts from the first five days of the film's general release in the United States so impressed the movie's distributor that it decided to spend lavishly on promotion, buying full-page newspaper ads and TV-spots totaling some $11 million.<ref name="20 Years On"/> The movie also benefited from much free publicity because of Grant's reception in the United States, where he became an instant [[sex symbol]] and undertook a successful media tour promoting the film.<ref name=":0"/> Producer Duncan Kenworthy stated that "It was the most amazing luck that when Hugh went on the publicity trail he turned out to be incredibly funny, and very like the character of Charles. That doesn't ever happen."<ref name="20 Years On"/> The film had a [[wide release]] in the United States on 15 April 1994.

At the UK premiere in [[Leicester Square]] on 11 May 1994, Hugh Grant's then-girlfriend [[Elizabeth Hurley]] garnered much publicity for the film when she wore a [[Black Versace dress of Elizabeth Hurley|black Versace safety-pin dress]] which became a sensation in the press.<ref name="20 Years On"/> The film opened in the UK on 13 May 1994.