Tag: Pitch Perfect
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Sequel Bits: ‘John Wick’, ‘Jurassic World’, ‘Pitch Perfect’, ’21 Jump Street’, ‘Top Gun’, ‘Halloween’, ‘Fight Club’, ‘The Marine’
In this edition of Sequel Bits: Please enjoy a John Wick Chapter 3 image of Keanu Reeves on a horse. J.A. Bayona explains why there are no deleted scenes on Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Blu-ray. Hey, maybe there’s going to be a Pitch Perfect 4? A female-driven 21 Jump Street spin-off is still in the…
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Anna Kendrick Tells Stephen Colbert About the Time She Called Obama an ‘A—hole’ to His Face — Watch
Anna Kendrick counts herself among President Barack Obama’s many fans, but that didn’t stop her from calling him an asshole the first time they met. The “Up in the Air” and “Pitch Perfect” star recalled the incident during an appearance on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” explaining how it began innocently enough: “I got…
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The Lamest Showmen: why can’t male actors sing?
As the new Mamma Mia! hits cinemas, we explore why male actors hit the bum notes in modern movie musicalsThere are many reasons why the first Mamma Mia! movie was such a smash hit, but we can all agree Pierce Brosnan’s singing was not one of them. He sounded like a labrador trapped under a…
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Rebel Wilson vows to fight ‘malicious’ Bauer Media to the end
‘It’s ridiculously hard to be one individual against a billionaire corporation,’ actor saysThe Australian actor Rebel Wilson has attacked what she calls the “shockingly unethical behaviour and malicious takedowns” by the publisher Bauer Media, as she applies to take her defamation saga to Australia’s highest court.The Pitch Perfect actor lodged an application with the high…
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How Kay Cannon Shattered a Glass Ceiling By Directing ‘Blockers’
Kay Cannon’s “Blockers” scored big at the weekend box office with $21.4 million. The R-rated comedy is like “Bridesmaids” meets “American Pie,” with a script that follows a group of three high school seniors (played by Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan and Gideon Adlon) who make a pact to lose their virginity on prom night. When…
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Kay Cannon on ‘Blockers’, Making Her Directorial Debut and Reworking the Script
After getting her start at such comedic training grounds as The Second City, The iO West Theater and The ComedySportz Theatre, Kay Cannon received rave reviews for her debut screenplay Pitch Perfect, and wrote and co-produced Pitch Perfect 2 and Pitch Perfect 3. Now, she’s made her feature directorial debut with the outrageously funny Blockers,…
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‘A Quiet Place’ Makes Loud Thursday Debut With $4.3 Million
Horror-thriller “A Quiet Place” has opened with an impressive $4.3 million at 2,740 North American locations in Thursday night preview showings, while “Blockers” took in $1.5 million at 2,650 sites in previews.Paramount Pictures’ “A Quiet Place,” starring John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, has been forecasted to debut with as much as $30 million from 3,508…
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Blockers review – a smart update on the teens-and-sex comedy
Staid parents are wittily piched against their open-minded daughtersThe parents of three teenage girls set out to scupper their daughters’ plans to lose their virginity on prom night: looking at its bare bones plot, Pitch Perfect writer Kay Cannon’s directorial debut doesn’t exactly scream “sex positive”. Yet, by aligning itself with its younger characters’ more…
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Blockers review – prom night comedy as parents turn sex obstructors
Entertaining film about the parents of three teenagers who attempt to foil their offsprings’ plans to lose their virginitySome really good gags about American Beauty and the Fast and Furious franchise are part of what’s enjoyable about this extremely likable generation-gap comedy from screenwriting brothers Jim and Brian Kehoe. It’s a script that’s been on…
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‘Blockers’ Director & Cast On Telling Funny, Female-Fronted Story – SXSW
Before going wide on April 6, Universal’s parental angst comedy Blockers landed in Austin for its premiere at the SXSW Film Festival. Leslie Mann, John Cena, and Ike Barinholt star as parents who set out on a one-night operation to stop their teens from honoring a pact to lose their virginities on prom night. The…