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The comedy, from Todd Phillips, director of THE HANGOVER, see's Downey Jr's character Peter Highman having to travel 2000 miles across America with Ethan Tremlay (Zach Galifianakis), a socially inept character who manages to pull all of Peter's strings, to much hilarity.

«From the director of The Hangover», but any film boasting a comedy animal in its poster is not to be trusted.

It follows three high school kids throwing a big party, played by Thomas Mann, Jonathan Daniel Brown and Oliver Cooper, but other than that it's full of unknowns, directed by an unknown, the only other big name is Todd Phillips (director of The Hangover, Due Date) as the producer of the whole thing.

South By Southwest have announced the 2011 SXSW Film Conference lineup, which includes two key conversations with Todd Phillips (director of The Hangover), Paul Reubens (aka Pee - wee Herman), the cast and crew of Super (James Gunn, Ellen Page and Rainn Wilson) and filmmaker Duncan Jones (Source Code, Moon).

Not exact matches

Hangover director Todd Phillips is co-writing the script with 8 Mile «s Scott Silver, and Martin Scorsese of all people is producing the thing.

The Blu - ray release of «The Hangover» doesn't add very much in the way of additional extras, but there is a picture - in - picture video commentary with director Todd Phillips and co-stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis that, while it starts out slow, is actually worth checking out.

But this is a comedy — or it's meant to be — and as much as I would have loved for the sense of the sinister inherent in this concept to turn into something deeply, blackly funny (I'm thinking of Very Bad Things as a possible precedent for this, but The Hangover is never so audacious), Lucas and Moore and director Todd Phillips (School for Scoundrels, Starsky & Hutch) go for the easy, cheap laughs, things that will shock a juvenile mindset — a mother breastfeeding?

Although the script is credited to screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (the team behind the dismal Four Christmases and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past), The Hangover is consistent with the director's previous frat - boy comedy hits.

Sixteen months after the blockbuster's debut, director Todd Phillips has one of this year's most anticipated movies in the forthcoming buddy road comedy Due Date, all three leads have moved past their vaguely familiar stage to a reasonable degree of stardom, the savvily - greenlit The Hangover 2 has begun shooting, and Warner Home Video has just reissued the film in Extreme Edition DVD and Blu - ray sets.

The plot is similar to the macabre «Very Bad Things,» but «The Hangover» is a closer relative of director Todd Phillips» earlier, funnier «Old School.»

As film versions of classic Television shows go, this happens to be one of the most appealing, from «The Hangover» director Todd Phillips.

Writer - director Stoller gives his star plenty to play with in this substance - fuelled, music - industry - baiting comedy that's a kind of The Hangover meets Crank via Be Cool.

(Fun fact: One of NOFF's earliest winners was a documentary by first - time director Todd Phillips, who has gone on to direct The Hangover and Old School.)

This looks like the director wanted to get rich off of making the next Wedding Crashers, American Pie or The Hangover... except without all the excess baggage like style, wit, charm and empathy.

In the hands of Hangover trilogy director Phillips, War Dogs annoys in a variety of ways: its halfhearted critique and sympathetic embrace of machismo and whatever - it - takes business savvy (the women in the story, uniformly P.Y.T.s, serve as sex objects and the buzzkill voice of morality), wall - to - wall use of overplayed source music (a Warner Bros. hallmark these days), and frequently sitcomedic joke constructions (Albania is «a beautiful place,» Cooper's character promises; cut to blue - grey blight).

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The same project that once had The Hangover director Todd Phillips tied to the director's chair now has a new director, and a handful of potential stars as well.

The director of Wedding Crashers and writers of The Hangover get together for a body - swap comedy that's as vulgar as you'd expect.

The first photo of Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover) and Keir Gilchrist (United States of Tara) in Half Nelson writer / directors Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck «s new film It's Kind of a Funny Story has been sent to us by / Film reader Matt S.

Liam Hoofe takes a look at ten actors who could play the Clown Prince of Crime in the upcoming Joker origin movie... News broke last week that The Hangover director Todd Phillips would be directing a Joker origin movie, produced by Martin Scorsese and not taking place inside the DCEU.

Shortly after the release of the disappointing The Hangover Part II, director Todd Phillips promised a second sequel that would complete the trilogy.

Director Todd Phillips is no stranger to depicting characters making terrible decisions (The Hangover trilogy), nor is he a stranger to conveying a myriad of high - action scenes and bro - comedic banter.

Around Thanksgiving of last year, a group of journalists was invited to the set of Warner Bros.» The Hangover Part III, writer / director Todd Phillips» conclusion to The Hangover trilogy.

Warner Bros. has released a bounty of high - resolution images from director Todd Phillips» upcoming comedy sequel The Hangover Part III.

The final film in director Todd Phillips» comedy trilogy The Hangover is poised to hit theaters soon, and in anticipation of the pic's release we here at Collider are giving away a number of The Hangover Part III - related items to some lucky fans.

After the runaway success of The Hangover, it's easy to see why director Todd Phillips is in high demand right now.

With War Dogs, Todd Phillips, the director of Old School, Due Date, and The Hangover trilogy, seems to take a recent page from the playbook of his fellow commercially proven,

That seems to be the philosophy of director Todd Phillips, whose sequel to the box office comedy smash The Hangover doesn't so much try to replicate the magic of the first film as it does try to replicate everything about the first film.

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Check out this fantastic new poster for Due Date, a new comedy from the director (Todd Phillips) and star (Zack Galifianakis) of The Hangover.

Crazy Stupid Love and Focus directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are currently developing Pandemonium, a biopic of WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon, and a new rumor says that The Hangover and American Sniper star Bradley Cooper has been offered the role of the boisterous and media - savvy personality.

This was produced by Todd Phillips, director of comedy greats like Road Trip, Old School, The Hangover and Due Date.

Director Todd Phillips» («Old School,» «Road Trip») «The Hangover,» which you could say is the ugly duckling of the Golden Globes, has been nominated in the Best Motion Picture, Comedy category, a decision that has been causing a considerable amount of hullabaloo.

You'd think a proven, previously - awarded commodity bearing the full weight of a ginormous one - woman show, weaving in and out of hangovers and maternal instincts for well over two hours, would delight both the Oscar voters who slipped Gena Rowlands into the 1980 lineup for Gloria (to which director Erick Zonca's gutsy melodrama is obviously indebted) as well as the voters who have actually seen a film by Derek Jarman.

Director / co-writer Todd Phillips, expanding a resume built on comedies such as The Hangover trilogy and Old School, brings a suitable zest to the insanity of this guns - to - riches tale, but falters when the time comes to move beyond his filmmaking comfort zone.

Following the raunchy, buddy - comedy groove of Bridesmaids and The Hangover, Girls Trip mines both bodily function jokes and explicit sexual acts for comedic gold.Ever the crazy pants auteur, director, producer and screenplay writer Luc Bess... more

«Project X» was cross-marketed to «The Hangover» with the director of the latter producing the former.

Director Todd Phillips is already talking up the idea that «The Hangover Part 3» will be the final «Hangover» film - over a week ahead before the release of the Wolfpack's second drunken adventure.

Joaquin Phoenix is reportedly eyeing the role of the Joker in a new 80s - set origins tale from The Hangover director Todd Phillips.

A curiously joyless movie that tries to channel the giddy amorality of Dr. Strangelove but forgets to add jokes or dramatic stakes, War Dogs is a major whiff from Hangover trilogy director Todd Phillips, who won't be graduating to serious material like Anchorman's Adam McKay did with The Big Short.

We are hearing through The Hollywood Reporter that The Hangover director Todd Phillips and Steven Conrad (The Pursuit of Happyness) are teaming up to...

Derek Luke and Lindsay Sloane have joined the project «Seeking A Friend At The End of the World,» Bryan Singer is producing the unfortunately titled Internet thriller «uwantme2killhim,» «Rabbit Hole» actor Miles Teller will star in «21 And Over,» which will be directed by ««The Hangover» writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, «300» writer Kurt Johnstad has been drafted to rework the script for James Mangold «s «The Gunslinger,» and lastly, «Saw» director Darren Bousman is going to helm what is being described as a «The Shining «- style horror tale called «The Barrens.»

The prolific comedy director was there to present the first full trailer for The Hangover Part II, which appeared almost simultaneously online, as part of Warner Bros.» The Big Picture 2011.

Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman star in the outrageous comedy from the director of Wedding Crashers and the writers of The Hangover.

By 2010, Galifianakis was a full - on movie star, giving leading - man performances both dramatic (in It's Kind of a Funny Story) and comedic, reteaming with Hangover director Todd Phillips for the road movie.

Zach Galifianakis as Marty Huggins: Though Galifiankis is very talented playing off the expectations and reactions of other characters, the comedian is once again guilty of cribbing from previous material, something disappointing to see outside of his abusive relationship with Hangover director Todd Phillips.

However, the Serena adaptation has still managed to secure two hot Hollywood talents, in the form of The Hangover star Bradley Cooper and Oscar - nominee Jennifer Lawrence (this year's The Hunger Games)-- a duo who, as it were, is fresh off working on director David O. Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook together.

Brought to us by writers and directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (most notably of The Hangover trilogy and 21 & Over), Bad Moms is a story about three swamped, undervalued mothers who, while not inherently «bad,» make the brazen decision to be bad — at least for a while.

War Dogs is one of the more surprising offerings this summer, mainly because I was expecting something totally different from the director that gave us the Hangover movies.

Todd Phillips (The Hangover, Old School) is not Martin Scorsese, despite how much he attempts to ape the style of the director.