Last July, David Wain started hinting while promoting other films that he and his fellow former State members were floating the idea of a reunion for a Wet Hot American Summer sequel. Our response looked something like this:

But then some time passed and we didn’t hear much more about it other than a few whispers that it could be a prequel with the older actors playing younger versions to hilarious results. Our response still looked something like this:

Then a few more months passed and we didn’t hear a thing about whether or not this prequel or sequel was progressing and our response looked something like this…

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It has only been three months, but the pain still feels fresh. Back in November, People magazine had the nerve – nay, THE BALLS! – to claim that Bradley Cooper was the Sexiest Man Alive. Normally, we wouldn’t care, but People chose the star of Limitless and The A*Team over our favorite chosen son, Ryan Gosling. And the world shared our outrage and acted accordingly.

As if the dagger wound wasn’t painful enough, along comes Heat magazine – whatever that is – to twist the blade and leave us in further agony. According to 1,000 or so of Heat’s readers, Gosling is indeed in the conversation of the Sexiest Man on the Planet, but once again he is left in the dust of a greater stag – David Beckham.

According to Digital Spy, heat’s Top 25 looks like this…

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"Hurry! Back to the repetitive joke machine!"

In case The Hangover 2 left you with nagging questions like, “Why does Justin Bartha get the short end of the stick each time?” or “Were there any jokes they didn’t repeat from the first Hangover?” then you are in luck. Warner Bros. is sticking its debit card in the Todd Phillips ATM one more time, because the studio is currently in negotiations with Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis for a third installment of the Wolfpack franchise.

And it looks like the three best friends are about to get paid.

Sources close to the negotiations say Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms are asking for $15 million each (against backend) to reprise their roles, and they now are likely to get it.

That’s a big raise from 2009’s The Hangover, which was made for about $35 million and paid the headliners under $1 million each (Cooper made the most because he had the biggest name recognition at the time). When the R-rated bachelor-party comedy unexpectedly grossed $467 million worldwide, the studio found itself without talent deals for a sequel. Negotiations were heated for The Hangover Part II, released last May, with the three principals each scoring around $5 million, according to a source, plus back-end compensation that raised their haul into the mid-teens (and counting) when the movie grossed $581 million worldwide. (Via The Hollywood Reporter)

First of all, good for them. They deserve to be paid A-list money for a third installment because as you just read, The Hangover movies are cash cows. But let’s not kid ourselves, the only positive outcome of The Hangover 3 is their payday. So let me save Phillips and Co. a little time and make a few bold predictions…

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Four new TV spots for The Hangover 2 have been released, which is awesome for people who want to see the best parts of the movie before it actually comes out. And director Todd Phillips can claim that the trailers and spots aren’t revealing anything great, but he doesn’t have to sit in a theater with 80 drunken college kids yelling out the lines they already know.

So keep on trucking, Hangover 2 promotional and marketing team. Cram this movie that is already guaranteed to be a blockbuster down our throats, because we can’t tell what’s funny without you guys. At this rate we’re going to need Hangover 3 teasers for May.

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MSN (via ScreenCrave) just released the second half of that parachuting tank scene from A-Team that we saw last week (I guess there are slight spoilers, so don’t watch it if you’re gonna be a bitch about it).  This one starts after the tank loses two of its three parachutes (which minutes earlier managed to survive a fiery plane explosion).  And again, everyone seems to be high on PCP.

“Oh my God, we lost our parachutes, we’re probably gonna die!”

“Awesome!”

“COWABUNGA!”

“BOOM.”

I’m not exaggerating, Sharlto Copley actually yells “Awesome!” and “Boom!”.  But you know what?  I kind of dig it.  It was always going to be ridiculous, at least Joe Carnahan went big with it.  So much yelling though.  If I’d known that was going to be the case, I would’ve had some casting suggestions. More like the A-SCREAM, amirite?

(“AAAAHHHH!”  “AAAAHHHHH!!”  “AAAAHHHH!”  “AAAAHHHH!”)