Pitch Perfect News
Why Anna Kendrick Is Done With Musicals: ‘Singing Is F-cking Hard’
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Anna Kendrick was all smiles as a small, urgent flurry of flashbulbs popped before her, and she was quite genuinely happy to be reunited with the creative team from her upcoming film, an adaptation of the Off-Broadway musical “The Last Five Years.” But, the straight shooter that she is, Kendrick was also blunt about her recent run of musical films — and her desire to give her vocal chords a break.
6 years 48 weeks ago via brucelee
Elizabeth Banks Directing 'Pitch Perfect 2'
8:29 PM 1/27/2014 by Binh Ngo
Universal must have saw something in the segment Elizabeth Banks directed in the ill-received comedy Movie 43 because the studio has tapped her to direct the Pitch Perfect sequel.
'Pitch Perfect' Cast To Perform At MTV Movie Awards
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The 2013 MTV Movie Awards just got a whole lot more musical. We knew that Selena Gomez would take the stage for her first performance since her hiatus, and the latest announcement from the award show adds two more musical acts that we're still wrapping our heads around. "Thrift Shop" shoppers Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will perform their new single "Can't Hold Us" on April 14 at 9 p.m.
7 years 42 weeks ago via donnieyen
Box Office Report: 'Taken 2' Dazzles With $50 Mil, One of Top Three October Debuts
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Among other new offerings, musical comedy "Pitch Perfect" turns in a solid $14.7 million as it expands nationwide, while Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie" falters with $11.5 million.
8 years 16 weeks ago via brucelee
New in Theaters: 'Taken 2', 'Frankenweenie', 'Pitch Perfect'
7:44 PM 10/5/2012 by Binh Ngo
The bad guys in Taken 2 didn't get the memo. One doesn't cross Liam Neeson's ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills and expects to live. But then again, who was left alive from the first movie to send it in the first place? Oh right, all those body bags ought give them a clue.
'Hotel Transylvania' sets record for Sept. bow with $43 mil; 'Looper' overperforms with $21.2 mil
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Sony injected much-needed life back into the domestic box office -- and then some -- as family newcomer "Hotel Transylvania" scored the best-ever September debut, estimating $43 million. The adult portion of the studio's weekend counterprogramming double-bill, "Looper," also overperformed with $21.2 million.
8 years 17 weeks ago via theothersenhman
Box Office Report: 'Hotel Transylvania' Wins Friday, Headed For Record $40 Mil Opening
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"Looper" and musical comedy "Pitch Perfect" also score strong starts; education drama "Won't Back Down" flunks.
8 years 17 weeks ago via jetli
Review: 'Pitch Perfect' Defies Logic, Is Entertaining
8:49 PM 9/27/2012 by Sara Vizcarrondo
Remix culture gets literal in this musical comedy about competitive, collegiate acapella. Anna Kendrick plays Beca, a musically talented, emotionally damaged freshman, whose free ride through school only feeds her resentment. She’d rather be in LA “paying her dues” and trying to work as a DJ.
Her dad, a professor at Barden University, barters with her:
Universal Platforms Crowd-Pleaser 'Pitch Perfect' September 28
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BREAKING: Universal Pictures will move up from an October 5 release date on Pitch Perfect and will try to build word of mouth by platforming the picture in select theaters across North America on Friday, September 28. Studio and Gold Circle Films did this after getting strong feedback from early screenings that have already been held and which elicited high amounts of social media traffic, 90% of it positive according to monitoring company Fizziology.
8 years 20 weeks ago via theothersenhman