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Warners Locks Cast Into `Hangover' Deals
Even before The Hangover opened, executives at Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures had commissioned a script for another installment. Who knew it would take six months of headache-inducing negotiations to make it happen?
Finally, the participants have completed talks and are ready to sign deals to reprise. I’m told that Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms will each be paid in the vicinity of $5 million against 4% of first dollar gross. Director/producer Todd Phillips will be paid around $10 million against 10%. For Phillips, there are also escalators and bonuses that insure if the sequel does anywhere close to the original’s $467 million worldwide gross, Phillips will not make less than his income on the original. That meter is still running, and it has passed the $50 million mark.
Why was The Hangover 2 such a difficult deal to put together? It was a perfect storm of leverage: the three stars made less than $1 million collectively on a film that became Hollywood’s biggest grossing R rated comedy ever. Those stars did not have options locking them into a sequel. What they did have were teams of managers, agents and attorneys who negotiated together, determined about one thing: Warners and Legendary weren’t getting another Hangover unless the trio got paid well.
Warners didn’t make option deals with the cast because the studio never envisioned a raunchy comedy would become a juggernaut that begged for an encore. In fact, Warners’ uncertainty over Phillips’ casting choices were the reason the filmmaker gambled his upfront fee in exchange for slightly more than 15% of the film’s overall revenue that allowed him to make the movie for the $34 million budget ceiling that the studio established for that cast. At the time, only Cooper had any feature name recognition.
Cooper made slightly more than Helms and Galifianakis, but none made more than $300,000 to star in the original, I’m told. While Warners eventually cut each actor a $1 million bonus check right before sequel negotiations began, the cast was a bargain the first time around. So reps of the thesps were dug in for a long battle when the studio initially came to the table offering each actor $3 million against 1% of the gross, with a deadline attached. That deadline passed, and I heard that twice during the talks, Warner Bros chief Jeff Robinov walked away from the table and pronounced that the sequel was off.
Finally, the deal-making got done. The sequel’s still being honed, but an October start is considered likely if Helms can work things out with his NBC series The Office. The sequel will be considerably more expensive than the first film—upfront salary alone for the trio and Phillips is around $25 million, and the original costs $34 million all in. But even if the original budget doubled and Warners is paying over 20% of first dollar gross, I think this is a good bet on a film with an established audience that wants more. A studio that wanted to establish itself in comedy has a beachhead franchise, and most likely its big comedy for Memorial Day weekend, 2011.
UPDATE: Since many commenters asked, Justin Bartha, who played the missing groom in the original, will be back for the sequel. I have no idea what he will be paid. As for the writers, I believe the script is currently being worked on by Todd Phillips and Scot Armstrong, but there might be others contributing.
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Liam Neeson is replacing Mel Gibson in the cameo role as a tattoo artist in The Hangover 2.
"I just got a call to do a one day shoot on 'Hangover 2' as a tattooist in Thailand, and that's all I know about it," Neeson told Variety. "I just laughed my leg off when I saw 'The Hangover,' I was shooting in Berlin earlier this year and rented it on the hotel TV."
Director Todd Phillips said in a statement on Thursday that they were no longer going with Gibson following protests from the cast and crew.
"I thought Mel would have been great in the movie and I had the full backing of Jeff Robinov and his team," said Phillips, "But I realize filmmaking is a collaborative effort, and this decision ultimately did not have the full support of my entire cast and crew."
Neeson was asked by his The A-Team co-star Bradley Cooper to take on the role. He flew out to the set Thursday from his home in New York.
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Bill Clinton Films Cameo for The Hangover Part II
TMZ reports that former President Bill Clinton has filmed a cameo in Thailand for The Hangover Part II. He's joining a growing list of people doing cameos for the sequel, including Liam Neeson and Paul Giamatti. Directed again by Todd Phillips, the comedy stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, Mike Tyson and Jamie Chung. Warner Bros. will release "Part II" on May 26.
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Liam Neeson's Cameo Cut From The Hangover Part II
Variety reports that Liam Neeson's cameo as a Bangkok tattoo artist in The Hangover Part II has been cut. Actor/writer/director Nick Cassavetes has been re-cast in the role that was originally envisioned for Mel Gibson.
Director Todd Phillips told the trade that he cut the scene that immediately followed Neeson's cameo, so if he had left the cameo in, the following minutes apparently wouldn't have made sense.
Instead, Phillips wanted to reshoot the cameo scene to make it fit, but Neeson is already shooting Clash of the Titans 2 and was not available.
"We were in a complete time crunch so I called up Nick and asked if he would do the part," Phillips said. "He came in and crushed it and that is the scene that you will ultimately see in the film."
The Hangover Part II opens in theaters on May 26.
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Also der Trailer macht echt Vorfreude. Ich bin schon gespannt, Teil 1 war genial, hoffe der zweite kann da mithalten.
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The Hangover Part II Awakes to New Records
The summer movie season has been making up for a weaker spring with consistently stronger weekends and with the release of two anticipated sequels, this Memorial Day weekend set a new record for the holiday with the Top 10 grossing an estimated $269 million over the four-day weekend. 39% of that amount went to Todd Phillips' The Hangover Part II, reuniting Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms from the hit R-rated comedy that scored $277 million two summers back. After opening with $31.6 million on Thursday, it set a new opening record for an R-rated comedy with $86.5 million over the three-day weekend and an estimated $105.8 million over the four days, utterly destroying the previous R-rated comedy opening held by American Pie 2 with $45.2 million.
Grossing $137.4 million in just five days, the sequel has already entered the Top 10 for highest grossing R-rated comedies ever, as well as becoming the second-biggest opening for any R-rated movie ever, following just behind The Matrix Reloaded in 2003 and just ahead of Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ the following year. On top of that, Phillips' comedy became the fourth-biggest Memorial Day weekend opening ever, surpassing Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park: The Lost World, which held the record for biggest weekend gross for many years.
Internationally, The Hangover Part II opened in 40 foreign markets, earning $60.3 million.
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Nächste Woche Mittwoch geh ich ins Kino, kann es schon jetzt kaum erwarten! 
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Teil 1 war ja schon zum Totlachen 
