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

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

Wednesday, November 5

• On the Set of The Hangover

  One of the more-intriguing releases on the 2009 movie calendar is The Hangover, a new comedy from Old School director Todd Phillips. After hitting the jackpot in 2003 with the help of newly minted "frat pack" members Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, and Luke Wilson, Phillips faltered with his next two releases, Starsky & Hutch and School for Scoundrels, before reportedly being booted from the Borat director's chair due to alleged "creative differences" with star Sacha Baron Cohen.

  It seems appropriate, then, that Phillips chose to return to familiar territory for The Hangover, a raucous, irreverent comedy about three guys who throw an epic bachelor party for their buddy -- only to awaken the next day to find that the groom-to-be has vanished.

  ReelzChannel.com recently stopped by The Hangover's set at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, where we spoke with Phillips and stars Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Justin Bartha. Do they have a shot at restoring Phillips' Old School comedy mojo? Bartha, who together with Nicolas Cage's wig provided much of the comic relief in both National Treasure flicks, thinks so. He went so far as to guarantee that The Hangover would be the funniest movie of 2009. Funnier than Underworld: Rise of the Lycans? Good luck.

  Check back soon for an in-depth preview of The Hangover, which opens nationwide on June 5, 2009.

  
  

  Posted 11/05/2008 by reelz

  Related: Todd Phillips | Ed Helms