The Hangover 2 Cast Is Ready To Go And Get A Huge Raise With the sucess of The Hangover Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures had commissioned a script for another installment. The film grossed $467 million worldwide and the film became Hollywood’s biggest grossing R rated comedy ever. I’m told that Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms will each be paid in the vicinity of $5 million against 4% of first dollar gross. Director/producer Todd Phillips will be paid around $10 million against 10%. For Phillips, there are also escalators and bonuses that insure if the sequel does anywhere close to the original’s $467 million worldwide gross, Phillips will not make less than his income on the original. That meter is still running, and it has passed the $50 million mark. Why was The Hangover 2 such a difficult deal to put together? It was a perfect storm of leverage: the three stars made less than $1 million collectively on a film that became Hollywood’s biggest grossing R rated c