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Ladies and gentlemen, the teaser poster for Due Date. It first popped out of here.

The first trailer for the film has splashed down. Retrieval in progress:

The first official still from Due Date has been released by Warner Bros. which means it's time to create a gallery for this film. The studio has also supplied us with their official story synopsis:

"Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) is an expectant first-time father whose wife's due date is a mere five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at her side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry when a chance encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis) forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan--on what turns out to be a cross-country road trip that will ultimately destroy several cars, numerous friendships and Peter's last nerve."

Jamie Foxx has joined the cast of Due Date. He'll play the friend of Robert Downey Jr.'s about-to-be Dad. Little does RD Jr.'s character know that Foxx's character secretly keeps in touch with his wife, who the pal used to date before getting married.

Michelle Monaghan (Eagle Eye, Mission: Impossible III) has been cast as the wife of Robert Downey Jr.'s dad-to-be.

In an article about Zach Galifinakis circling a dramedy called It's Kind of a Funny Story, it's mentioned in passing that filming on Due Date has now wrapped. With that information known, we're now moving the project into its post-production phase.

Iron Man leading guy Robert Downey Jr. will play the expectant father-to-be in Due Date, the straight man to Zack Galifinakis' weirdo. Production kicks off on September 21 and will lens in Los Angeles, New Mexico and Atlanta.

ScriptShadow has reviewed the March 6, 2009 draft of Due Date by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland, giving the situation comedy a mixed assessment.

"It doesn't take long for Due Date to hit some bumps in the road," writes Carson Reeves, the site's owner and chief reviewer. "The biggest bump is that there's nothing here we haven't seen before. Add to that that Due Date is more concerned with hijinx than story and you're looking at one grumpy Carson. As I may have mentioned before, I like a story in my screenplays. Look, I'm all about the lol if you can pull it off. But rooming with your easily insulted sister-in-law isn't exactly Grade-A material. And crashing a college party doesn't ring very high on the original-o-meter. These problems only serve to exaggerate the lack of story. And while there's a decent subplot involving Peter's absent dad, the main storyline of Peter's baby being born isn't threatened until very late in the script."

The Hangover's Todd Phillips will make Due Date his next movie. The director will reunite with one of his stars, Zack Galifianakis, who will play the role of an unusual travel companion that shares the car ride across the country with an expectant father. The plan is to begin filming Due Date starting October 6 and have Warner Bros. release it in the first week of June 2010. [Full story]