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 Inbetweeners Movie then went on to set a new record for the most successful opening weekend ever achieved by a comedy film in the UK, overtaking "" and "The Hangover Part II" after earning £13.22 million, compared to second-place "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" which took £2.4 million. "The Inbetweeners Movie" was confirmed as having the biggest opening weekend for an independent British film. It retained its number 1 position in the UK film charts for four weeks before being overtaken by "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" on 20 September 2011, by which time "The Inbetweeners Movie" had grossed £41.8 million