Tuesday, November 10

• Cooper, Aniston, and Galifianakis: You Are Here

  Variety reports that Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, and Jennifer Aniston have all committed to the romantic comedy You Are Here, written by Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner during his days as a Sopranos writer.

  The debut of Weiner as a writer and director, You Are Here was originally planned to start production during Mad Men's 2010 hiatus, but scheduling complications for the TV show's fourth season forced the movie to be postponed until 2011. All three stars are reportedly juggling their schedules to appear in the movie.

  
  

  Posted 11/10/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Bradley Cooper | Jennifer Aniston | Zach Galifianakis | Matthew Weiner

Thursday, October 8

• RZA joins Downey Jr. and Galifianakis in Due Date

  Variety reports that Wu-Tang Clan rapper RZA will star with Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis in Due Date, the upcoming comedy from director Todd Phillips (The Hangover, Old School, Starsky & Hutch).

  The story involves a soon-to-be father who is in danger of missing his child's birth. In order to make it on time, he has to enlist the help of an underachieving college student, who takes him on a road trip.

  The RZA has already starred in and produced music for a number of features, perhaps most notably those of indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. If you haven't yet seen it, check out this hilarious clip from Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes, in which RZA discusses the ills of caffeine addiction with fellow Wu-Tang member GZA and ... Bill Murray.

  RZA is also starring in Paul Haggis's upcoming movie The Next Three Days and is scoring Robbie Brenner's Warriors Way.

  Due Date also stars Michelle Monaghan and Jamie Foxx and is scheduled for a November 5, 2010 release.

  
  

  Posted 10/08/2009 by Rich Z

  Related: Jamie Foxx | Michelle Monaghan | Todd Phillips | Zach Galifianakis | Robert Downey Jr. | RZA | Due Date

Thursday, October 1

• Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. Team Up Again for Due Date

  Jamie Foxx has been added to the cast of Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures' latest Todd Phillips (The Hangover) comedy, Due Date. He joins Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis.

  Foxx and Downey Jr. recently starred in The Soloist together, a drama by Joe Wright about the true story of Nathaniel Ayers (Foxx), a talented musician who becomes homeless after developing schizophrenia, and Steve Lopez (Downey Jr.), a Los Angeles Times columnist who writes about him for the paper.

  In Due Date, Downey Jr. will star as a stressed-out father who hitches a ride from a college student (Galifianakis) in the hopes of making it to his child's birth on time. Foxx will play a longtime friend of Downey Jr.'s character who once dated his wife (played by Michelle Monaghan) and has maintained a secret relationship with her.

  
  
  Next Showing: Due Date is currently slated for a November 5, 2010 release

  Posted 10/01/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Jamie Foxx | Zach Galifianakis | Robert Downey Jr. | The Soloist | The Hangover

Friday, September 18

• Michelle Monaghan Due to Join Hangover Team and Robert Downey Jr.

  Todd Phillips took a chance when he forced Warner Bros. to let him cast Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis in The Hangover, but his gamble paid off when Hangover became the highest grossing R-rated comedy ever in July. Up next for Phillips is Due Date, a road trip comedy about an expectant father (Robert Downey Jr.) trying to race home to see the birth of his child alongside an annoying travel partner (Galifianakis).

  Variety reports that Michelle Monaghan is set to join the comedy as Downey Jr.'s pregnant wife, reuniting her with her Kiss Kiss Bang Bang co-star. Shooting begins this fall.

  
  
  Next Showing: Due Date is scheduled to open November 5, 2010

  Posted 09/18/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Michelle Monaghan | Todd Phillips | Zach Galifianakis | Robert Downey Jr. | Due Date | The Hangover

Sunday, August 23

• Bradley Cooper "Excited" About The Hangover 2

  The Hangover, a fresh buddy-road-trip comedy made for $35 million, went on to rake in an incredible $403 million worldwide. With profits like that, it was inevitable that talk would turn to the possibility of a sequel. Break-out funny man Zach Galifianakis confirmed a few weeks ago that a script was being worked on, but had doubts about his participation in The Hangover 2.

  I'm not running to do The Hangover 2. I told Todd [Phillips], the last thing I want is the Police Academy chain all of the sudden.... You've got to be careful with something like that. The movie's really good, why bother with a sequel?

  While Galifianakis' comments are not exactly a ringing endorsement of a sequel, his co-star, Bradley Cooper, was far more optimistic when he was recently asked about The Hangover 2.

  We're actually really excited about the second one. We were talking about it while we were filming the first one 'cause we were having so much fun. Warner Bros. actually wanted to do it before it even came out.

  
  
  

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  Interview: Bradley Cooper "On the story"

  Posted 08/23/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Bradley Cooper | Zach Galifianakis | The Hangover

Thursday, August 13

• Hangover Star Ed Helms Gets Intelligence

  When a movie becomes the most successful R-rated comedy ever like The Hangover has, it's a given that its stars are going to suddenly explode into more movies. With a Hangover sequel already in the works, the movie's trio of stars have also lined up other projects. Zach Galifianakis is working with Hangover director Todd Phillips on Due Date, Bradley Cooper will be seen next in All About Steve a comedy with Sandra Bullock that opens September 4, and Ed Helms has lined up the comedy Central Intelligence, where an accountant is thrown into the world of espionage after re-connecting with an old friend on Facebook. The script is written by MadTV's Ike Barinholtz and Dave Stassen.

  Helms will also star in Cedar Rapids, a comedy from producer Alexander Payne (Sideways) and director Miguel Arteta, where Helms will play an insurance salesman who travels cross country to attend a convention in an attempt to save the jobs of his co-workers. Rapids starts production this October.

  There's no word if Helms will shoot Intelligence before work begins on Hangover 2 in the fall of 2010. He can be seen next in The Goods: Sell Hard, Live Hard, which opens August 14.

  
  

  Posted 08/13/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Alexander Payne | Bradley Cooper | Miguel Arteta | Todd Phillips | Zach Galifianakis | Ed Helms | Ike Barinholtz | The Hangover | The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

Sunday, July 26

• Robert Downey Jr. to Star in Comedy from The Hangover Director

  

  Variety reports that Robert Downey Jr. has struck a deal with Warner Bros. and will star in Due Date with Zach Galifianakis. The comedy, which begins shooting this fall and is scheduled for release sometime in 2010, will see Downey as an expectant father who goes on a road trip in order to make it to the birth of his first-born child.

  The movie will be directed by Todd Phillips (Old School, Road Trip) from a script by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland (with revisions by Adam Sztykiel). Phillips' most recent movie, The Hangover, recently became the highest-grossing R-rated comedy ever.

  
  

  Posted 07/26/2009 by Rich Z

  Related: Todd Phillips | Zach Galifianakis | Robert Downey Jr. | The Hangover

Monday, July 13

• The Hangover Sequel Has Release Date Set

  Considering the success of The Hangover, a sequel seems like a foregone conclusion. However, it's one that Warner Bros. decided to make two months before the hit comedy even opened. While no details regarding the story for The Hangover 2 have been given, the movie is set to open Memorial Day weekend in 2011.

  Director Todd Phillips credits the success of the movie to stars Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Ed Helms, all of whom Warner Bros. was nervous to cast.

  I remember some executives just didn't understand the casting, and on The Hangover, I felt we'd been seeing the same faces in a lot of comedies, and that it was time to mix it up. Warners was a bit apprehensive...

  With The Hangover poised to be the top-grossing R-rated movie for Warners this year, Phillips was certainly right. Now he just has to figure out what to do in the sequel before it goes into production October 2010.

  
  

  Posted 07/13/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Bradley Cooper | Todd Phillips | Zach Galifianakis | Ed Helms | The Hangover

Wednesday, May 20

• 3 More The Hangover Clips

  Another batch of clips were released for The Hangover, the bachelor-party-gone-terribly-wrong comedy. Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, and Bradley Cooper continue their search for a their lost friend, this time at a hospital where the doctors multi-task:

  Here, the gang comes across a Phil Collins-loving Mike Tyson -- a scene strongly featured in the trailer:

  And finally, Cooper, Galifianakis, and Helms find themselves the owners of an interesting new vehicle:

  
  
  Next Showing: The Hangover opens June 5

  Posted 05/20/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Bradley Cooper | Zach Galifianakis | Phil Collins | Mike Tyson | Ed Helms | The Hangover

Tuesday, May 19

• 2 New The Hangover Clips

  A couple new clips from the upcoming comedy The Hangover -- which follows three friends who must piece together a wild, Las Vegas stag party they can't remember and find the bachelor before the wedding -- arrived online. The first clip finds the bachelor (Justin Bartha) in happier times as his father-in-law (Jeffrey Tambor) lets him borrow a prized automobile:

  In the second clip, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis talk to Heather Graham to see if she can help them find Bartha:

  
  
  Next Showing: The Hangover opens June 5

  Posted 05/19/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Bradley Cooper | Heather Graham | Jeffrey Tambor | Justin Bartha | Zach Galifianakis | Ed Helms | The Hangover

Friday, May 8

• You Can Feel the New Hangover Trailer in the Air Tonight

  The upcoming bachelor party comedy The Hangover, starring possible Green Lantern Bradley Cooper along with Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms, has a new, unrated trailer. Directed by Old School director Todd Phillips, this may be the out-of-control Vegas bachelor party movie to end to end all out-of-control Vegas bachelor party movies. It also sets the bar for all other summer comedies: Can you beat Mike Tyson feeling some Phil Collins? You'd better try.

  
  

  Posted 05/08/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Bradley Cooper | Todd Phillips | Zach Galifianakis | Mike Tyson | Ed Helms | Green Lantern | Old School | The Hangover