How much money does Pitch Perfect make?
Box office. Pitch Perfect grossed $65 million in North America and $50.3 million in other territories for a total gross of $115.4 million since release, against a $17 million budget.
There have been talks about a fourth Pitch Perfect movie, but over six years after the last one was released, it is too late to make another one.
Anna Kendrick's salary for the first two Pitch Perfect films has not been made public. However, it has been reported that Kendrick received a pay bump to $6 million to headline the third installment in the franchise, Pitch Perfect 3, as well as a percentage of the film's profits.
The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed over $287 million worldwide. It surpassed the total gross of the original film ($115.4 million) in five days, and also became the highest-grossing music comedy film of all-time, overtaking School of Rock ($131.3 million).
When you're promoting a movie, it's always like, 'Oh, we're all best friends and we all love each other' because that helps sell the movie. But in this case, we really were, we really did get to become close friends, if not family."
Although it was a new and at times scary experience for Kendrick, she's a professional at what she does, and she really sang all of her songs in all Pitch Perfect movies, showing that she can not only do musical theater and comedy, but she can also add a cappella performance to her list of talents and skills.
Pitch Perfect grossed $65 million in North America and $50.3 million in other territories for a total gross of $115.4 million since release, against a $17 million budget.
Yes, the actors in the Pitch Perfect movie series, including Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson, did sing all the songs themselves. They received vocal training and spent a lot of time rehearsing to deliver their performances.
And although the rival male choir The Treblemakers from “Pitch Perfect 2” aren't back for “3,” bands (with instruments!) fill the void, including the generic, fictional all-woman group Evermoist and the band Saddle Up, played by real bluegrass group Whiskey Shivers.
Can Ruby Rose actually sing?
But let's first clear something up, for anyone who's wondering: Yes, Rose is really singing in the film. "I didn't milli vanilli it," she says with a laugh when we chat over the phone. "It was a lot of fun." Rose's experience with singing goes way back.
We learn that Beca broke up with Jesse because they couldn't handle the long distance, and Fat Amy also broke up with Bumper. Chloe (Brittany Snow) enters to tell her friends about a Bellas reunion performance that is later that night.
Jesse and Benji's absence in Pitch Perfect 3 was due to creative differences and scheduling conflicts, according to the director. It is disappointing that Jesse and Benji were left out of the film, as they have been significant characters in the franchise.
“70% of my character in Pitch Perfect was improvised”
It was on the set of the Pitch Perfect films that Wilson learned the importance of improvisation to grow one's profile – a skill that expanded her role in the first film from a meagre total of eight lines, to being one of the main characters.
In 2014, Kendrick moved on with cinematographer Ben Richardson after filming “Drinking Buddies” together. Although the Tony nominee was seemingly spotted wearing an engagement ring the following year, she never commented on the proposal rumors. The couple reportedly split in 2020.
Pitch Perfect 3 grossed $104.9 million in the United States and Canada and $80.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $185.4 million, against a production budget of $45 million.
During the Riff-Off, Ester Dean sings S&M, which was co-written by her. Brittany Snow said that Rebel Wilson improvised most of her lines and would go on 20-minute tangents that would have the whole cast and crew in stitches.
Baton Rouge was such a perfect choice for filming that the cast and crew returned to the city to film Pitch Perfect 2. Meanwhile, Pitch Perfect 3 was actually shot in a variety of locations, including Atlanta, Nice, France, and Cádiz, Spain.
RIGHT: The final performance is surprisingly authentic. Most of the a cappella we hear in "Pitch Perfect 2" is very heavy on mash-ups, the latter of which IS really popular right now. But the climax of the film, when the Barden Bellas perform their set at the World Championships, ends in a really authentic way.
Alexis Knapp's audition to join the Barden Bellas as Stacie Conrad in the Pitch Perfect franchise introduced us to one of the silliest members of the a cappella group. Her character was pregnant in the third movie, but in real life, Alexis gave birth before she even joined the franchise.
Did Anna Kendrick audition for Pitch Perfect?
Coming off the success of the Twilight franchise, Anna Kendrick went into her Pitch Perfect audition not being sure about the film's musical elements. However, things came together when she did the first movie's signature routine.
Hana Mae Lee: Lilly.
But by Pitch Perfect 3 standards, it was a masterpiece. The new third entry in the series isn't interested in character development or logical storylines or anything resembling innovation. It's lazy and limp and profoundly weird, and not in any meaningful way a “good movie.”
Pitch Perfect, released in 2012 and set in the fictional Barden University campus, was mostly filmed at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. It is an iconic college comedy film that follows a group of misfit girls who form an all-female a cappella singing group with the help of an unlikely mentor.
It's a craze that has swept over schools everywhere and contrary to popular belief, the Cup Song (or “Cup Game”) was not created for the 2012 movie Pitch Perfect. Both the song and game that accompanies it have been around for years and their history is an interesting one.
