The Hangover Part II structure. There needs to be a ticking clock, there needs to be a missed night and there needs to be someone who's gone and a woman who is waiting to get married and a guy who needs to get married." In June 2010, before accepting the Guy Movie of the Year award on the Spike Guys Choice Awards, Phillips announced that there would be a "Hangover 2" and that they were hoping to begin filming around October 15, 2010, for a July 4, 2011 weekend release. In July 2010, it was confirmed that film would indeed be set in Thailand
The Hangover Part II screens. In total, the film accrued $60.3 million from its Friday-through-Monday opening weekend, more than tripling the international gross of "The Hangover"s debut in the same territories. The highest weekend gross came from the United Kingdom where the film earned £10,409,017 from 469 screens, breaking the record for the highest-grossing opening for a US comedy, but this record was overtaken by "The Inbetweeners Movie" (£13,216,736). Australia accrued a gross of $12.1 million to replace "Sex and the City" in the country as the highest-grossing opening for an MA-rated film—no-one under the age of 15 permitted. The film took $8.7 million