“Hey!  The Hangover writers are writing a new movie!  And with ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ heart-throb, Patrick Dempsey?   It’s even got a wacky premise where Dempsey caught between two robberies that take place at the same bank at the same time who secretly plots to win the heart of a feisty bank teller! She’s feisty?  I’m going to stand in line for tickets TODAY!”

Slow down.  While Dempsey’s recent movies seem like an attempt to position him as American-Hugh Grant, my major concern is with “Hangover” “screenwriters” Jon Lucas and Scott Moore.  There’s been some controversy as to whether or not they were actually responsible for the film that ended up making over $450 million worldwide.  While the two did write the foundation of the story, director Todd Phillips and un-credited screenwriter Jeremy Garelick (”The Break-Up”), made substantial changes adding, according to Deadline, “the baby, the tiger, Mike Tyson, the gangster, the cop car, and more.”  But hey, maybe Lucas and Moore are funny on their own.  And they have American-Hugh Grant!  When the film starts shooting in April of next year, it’ll be like printing money. [ScreenDaily]

So when “The Soloist” meets “The Hangover”, I guess you get Todd Phillips’ “Due Date” because Jamie Foxx has just signed on to co-star with Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis.  If you told me at the beginning of the year that I would see this kind of combination, I would accuse you of having wishful and really random thinking but I guess the joke’s on me.  Hit the jump for more details.

Warner Home Video has finally announced “The Hangover” on DVD and Blu-ray. For fans of the biggest R-rated comedy of all time (you read that right), you’ll be happy to know the film hits DVD/Blu-ray on December 15^th and it’s got a decent amount of extras. For what’s included, hit the jump:

Ever since “Old School” became a hit back in 2003, there have been whispers of the cast reuniting and doing a sequel. Unfortunately, the more time that passes, the less of a chance it’s ever going to happen.

But even though the chances are slim, whenever I interview someone from the film, I always ask about the sequel. And since I covered the “Couples Retreat” international press day for our partners at Omelete earlier today, I had the chance to speak with Vince Vaughn during a roundtable interview. What he said about “Old School 2″ and what he’s doing next is after the jump.

Michelle Monaghan is in negotiations to co-star alongside Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis in director Todd Phillips’ new comedy, “Due Date”.  The actress will portray Downey Jr.’s pregnant wife in the film; a reunion of sorts for the pair that last shared the screen in 2005’s “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”.  Details after the jump.

Have you seen the previous installments of Zach Galifianakis’ brilliant comedy sketch, “Between Two Ferns”?  No?  Well, you read Collider so obviously you saw the one he did with his “Hangover” co-star Bradley Cooper.  Okay, I’m done trying to convince you to watch his latest “interview” with Charlize Theron where they talk about her name, her love of animals, and the chemistry he feels between the Oscar winner and himself.  Jump in a pool after the jump.

With only hours to go before Hollywood’s golden season draws to a close, I thought it was a good time to do the post-mortem on the summer of 2009.  By now you may have heard that this summer was Hollywood’s most-profitable ever with grosses topping $4.3 billion. But has it felt like the biggest summer ever?  Not really.  Blockbusters like “Transformers 2″ and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” aside, 2009 was a season of expensive movies that didn’t live up to the hype and cheap movies that performed above all expectations.  Follow me now into the murky world of box office number crunching to see just how huge Hollywood’s hugest summer really was.

Ed Helms is now a movie star.  Get used to it.  The former “Daily Show” contributor and co-star of this summer’s breakout comedy “The Hangover” has signed to his second starring role in as many months.  The first, coming while “Hangover” was still king of the box office, was a little indie road-trip movie but today Helms got onboard a big time studio comedy called “Central Intelligence”.  Hit the jump for all the details.

In what will probably be the breakout performance of the year, comedian/actor Zach Galifianakis now has his choice of projects, but one of them he’s less-than-excited for is a potential sequel to “The Hangover”.  It’s not that he won’t do it, but he has his concerns and they’re legitimate.  Hit the jump to see why he’s not immediately jumping back on board.

Following the mind-blowing success of “The Hangover” (the film had earned $210 million domestically as of Wednesday), director Todd Phillips is set to make two more features for Warner Brothers, the studio he has made so very, very happy.  He will first begin production on “Due Date”, a road trip comedy reteaming him with Zach Galifianakis, on October 6^th with a release date set for the first week of June 2010.  Phillips will then get busy on “The Hangover 2″ with the sequel penciled in for Memorial Day weekend of 2011.  More details on “Due Date” after the jump…

On Friday “Ice Age 3D: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” came oh-so close to kneecapping Michael Bay’s “Transformers” sequel at the box office.  Less than one million dollars separated Fox’s 3D toon and Paramount’s robot flick that wouldn’t die.  It all evened out over the weekend, however, with both films bringing in an estimated $43.5 million dollars over three days.  Talk of “Tf2″ becoming this year’s “The Dark Knight” was a hot topic one week ago when the film came within 3 million of tying Batman’s 5 day record, but those of us still immune to the dubious charms of Bay knew that those similarities would prove groundless once “Transformers” made it to its second weekend.  So here we are and, surprise!  The momentum of the big, shiny metal ones appears greatly slowed.  “Transformers 2″ was not embarrassed in any way, of course, but if we still want to talk “Dark Knight” records a tie is not very convincing evidence.  More box office talk after the jump…

Conventional wisdom puts Sandra Bullock as one of the only female movie stars who is a legitimate box office draw.  Until Friday, however, this conventional wisdom was kind of hard to prove.  Though Bullock’s films, especially those that fall in the romantic comedy category, have performed well in the long run, a surprising number of those films never got out of the $15 million dollar range on their opening weekends.  New entry “The Proposal” handily bucked that trend with a three day total of $34 million off of 3,056 runs.  The Disney release co-starring Ryan Reynolds (who, incidentally, already has a much-better opening under his belt thanks to “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”) easily beat back competition from the week’s other comedies, including Sony’s “Year One” and holdover hit “The Hangover”, to claim preeminence at the weekend box-office.

Another week of weak sauce at the box office has led to another surprise upset.  On Thursday it looked as if it would be a three-way fight for the top spot as “The Hangover” put its two-week winning streak up against new comedy challengers “The Proposal” and “Year One”.  In this lackluster June all three films were expected to bring in weekend totals in the $20 million range.  Instead, it was a fight to see who would come in second as Disney’s “The Proposal” became the clear box-office winner with over $12 million in grosses. This makes the film the biggest opener of Sandra Bullock’s career and puts it on track for a weekend take above $30 million.  It’s still anyone’s race for number two as “The Hangover” and Sony’s “Year One” both brought in around $8.5 million.  Check back tomorrow to see who gets the upper hand…

Once again “The Hangover” is the the number one film of the week.  Maybe now they’ll stop calling it a “sleeper hit” and just cop to the fact that it’s the normal kind of hit.  Pixar came in second with “Up” and the two new films had to fight for their spots in the top five.  A summer weekend where the biggest new release only ends up at number three is a bit of a head scratcher - unless you actually saw the film in question.  A lot of people thought that remaking the 1974 film “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3″ was unnecessary, and with the majority of this weekend’s tickets going to holdover titles like “The Hangover” and “Up” instead of the big star vehicle from Tony Scott, I would have to say that a lot of people were right.  Meanwhile, Paramount’s “Imagine That” continues the trend of live-action Eddie Murphy flicks that can not get above $6 million in the first three days (see 2008’s “Meet Dave”).  It’s kind of sad, really…

The so-called summer season continued this week with the release of two completely unanticipated releases - “The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3″ with Denzel Washington and another Eddie Murphy family film - does it really matter what it’s called at this point?  The R-rated “Pelham” came in third with close to $9 million on its way to a respectable weekend take in the $20 million range. The Eddie Murphy flick “Imagine That” surprised no one by bombing badly - coming in at #6 with only $1.8 million on Friday.  Last week’s sleeper hit “The Hangover” was the holdover winner for Friday, earning another $10 million after an impressive weekday average of $6.2 million per day.  Pixar’s “Up” continued to dominate at number two, though “The Hangover” will most likely take the weekend.  The only real questions now are how close can “Pelham” come to number one and how far back will “Imagine That” end up?  Check back tomorrow for the final estimates…

During the Las Vegas press junket for “The Hangover”, I was one of the few people that got to interview Mike Tyson. As a kid that grew up playing his video game on the Nintendo NES, it was a real thrill to be able to ask him some questions. Also, it’s not everyday you get to talk with one of the greatest boxers of all time.

As most of you have seen in the TV spots and trailers, Mike Tyson plays a small but important part in director Todd Phillips “The Hangover”. If you’ve seen the movie…you know what I’m talking about.

During my interview we talked about making the film, video games, his documentary “Tyson”, working with the tiger, his co-stars, and a lot more. If you’ve seen “The Hangover” or are just a fan of Iron Mike, you’ll enjoy this interview. Take a look after the jump: