The Hangover (film series) after hearing how a friend of executive producer Chris Bender went missing following his bachelor party in Las Vegas. After Lucas and Moore sold it to Warner Bros. for $2 million, director Todd Phillips and Jeremy Garelick rewrote the script to include a tiger as well as a subplot involving a baby and a police cruiser, and also including boxer Mike Tyson. Filming took place in Nevada for 15 days. In "The Hangover Part II", Phil, Stu, Alan, and Doug travel to Thailand for Stu's wedding. After the previous film's bachelor party in Las Vegas, Stu takes no chances and
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