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 and the second-highest-grossing opening weekend of all time for an R-rated film, behind "The Matrix Reloaded" ($91.7 million). For the Memorial Day four-day weekend, the film amassed $103.4 million to become the fourth-highest-grossing Memorial Day weekend opening. In its second weekend the film gross dropped 64 percent from the previous weekend—while the original film dropped only 27 percent during its second weekend—and grossed $31.4 million. The film ended its box office run on September 15, 2011, on 113th day of its release. "The Hangover Part II" debuted in 40 countries internationally over the weekend of May 26–29, 2011, across 5,170