After making Road Trip, Old School, and Starsky and Hutch, it wasn’t too long ago that Todd Phillips ( “Uh, I’m here for the gangbang?”) was one of the hottest directors in Hollywood.  He sort of fell of the map after School for Scoundrels, but then again, not everyone wants to make 15 movies a year like Judd Apatow. Anyway, below is the trailer for Phillips’ latest, The Hangover (currently attached to Watchmen), starring Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, and Bradley Cooper.  This trailer has pretty much everything:  Mike Tyson, a chicken, a naked guy in a trunk, a baby with sunglasses – heck, the only thing that’s missing is a tiger.  Wait no, I spoke too soon!

Wow, figure out how to work Sake Seal in there somewhere and I could die right now.
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Zach Galifianakis is a comedian that douchebag frat boys, douchebag hipsters, and even handsome secret agents like myself can agree on (see for yourself after the jump).  Needless to say, roles like Ashton’s Kutcher’s buddy in What Happens in Vegas aren’t worthy a man of such prodigious talents and beard.  Thankfully, Todd Phillps, the guy behind Road Trip and Old School is making him into a leading man.

In “Hangover,” Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms play best buddies at a wild Las Vegas bachelor party who lose the groom just hours before his wedding.

Galifianakis is also starring in an HBO pilot called Bored to Death.

In “Death,” Galifianakis plays Ray, a struggling comic book artist and best friend to Jonathan (Jason Schwartzman), an alcoholic writer who pretends to be a private detective. Ted Danson also stars in the project from writer Jonathan Ames and director Alan Taylor. [THR]

Every other movie has a characters who’s a comic book artist, even though I can’t imagine there are more than 20 people in the world who are actually full-time comic book artists. They’re more overrepresented in media than vampires. In related news, Ted Danson is still alive. Read the rest of this entry »

According to Variety, Warner Bros paid $2 million dollars for Hangover, a spec script that Todd "I’m here for the gangbang" Phillips (Roadtrip, Old School) will produce and direct.  $2 million sounds like a lot of money for a spec script, but then what do I know, I’m just a handsome racecar driver.

Penned by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, [Hangover] revolves around three pals who lose the groom at his Vegas bachelor party, 40 hours before the wedding. They then must retrace their inebriated bad decisions to figure out what happened.

That totally happened to me once. I was freaking out about my buddy not making the wedding, but then I remembered I was just really high on Peote and had gotten into my baby sister’s ken dolls again.  Sily me, I don’t even have friends!  And a couple years later the same sister got molested by the creepy neighbor guy.  Bet you feel sorry for laughing now, huh asshole.