The ‘Pitch Perfect’ sequel is just going to be an hour and a half of Anna Kendrick performing “Cups.”
It will make $70 million.
Music Video: Anna Kendrick - Cups (Pitch Perfect’s “When I’m Gone”) (Director’s Cut) | Vevo
Accidental pop star.
Later tonight, VEVO will release a full-length music video for the extended remix of “Cups” performed by Anna Kendrick. Here’s a sneak peek.
My girlfriend Anna Kendrick is going to be an accidental pop star.
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Directed by Paul Middleditch, written by Chris Mathenson, starring Anna Kendrick, John Francis Daley, Craig Robinson, ob Corddry, Ana Gasteyer, Rob Huebel, Ken Jeong, Paul Scheer and John Michael Higgins.
Super solid cast (I mean, you had me at Kendrick), and it looks kind of funny, but as FT points out, there seems to be an overabundance of end-times comedies on the way (one of which includes Robinson), so it’s going to need to do a lot to stand out. There are some clever ideas here: talking animals, doping zombies, the whole nonchalant attitude of everyone. And Robinson’s character brings ‘Dogma’ to mind. Which depending on how you like that movie, could be good or bad.
Regardless, I will see it because, you know, Anna Kendrick.
(via Film Thrasher)
Anna Kendrick is coming to a radio near you beginning March 26th - Nearly everyone loves Pitch Perfect. With a solid box office release, the film has become a smash since it hit Blu-Ray and DVD in December (so much so that Skylar Astin claims Universal is in very early talks for a sequel).
But among the impressive numbers, it’s Anna Kendrick’s audition performance in the film “Cups” that has become one of the most popular. Now, the song has been remixed and is scheduled to hit radio stations next month beginning on March 26th. Check out the first listen of the single above.
Anna Kendrick Does the Cup song routine on Letterman | CBS
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Never noticed the harmonies in this song until I saw Anna Kendrick and Brittany Snow sing it in the Pitch Perfect trailer, but this arrangement is so killer!!!
If the songs in ‘Pitch Perfect’ are even half this good …
Underrated in 2011: I cannot tell you how happy I am to see 50/50 getting awards recognition, truly one of my favorite films of the year if not all time.
Review: 50/50
One day I would like to shake the hand of Seth Rogen. Not for writing Superbad or starring in Knocked Up and Freaks and Geeks. Especially not for Zack and Miri or The Green Hornet. But for 50/50. Regardless of your opinion on him, Rogen’s foresight to give life to Will Reiser’s script is, as of now, his most outstanding contribution to humanity.
50/50 is based on TV producer Reiser’s real life confrontation with cancer in his mid-twenties. Joseph Gordon Levitt plays the autobiographical Adam, Rogen supports as his Seth Rogen-esque best friend (Reiser and Rogen are good friends in real life), and Anna Kendrick rounds out the cast as Adam’s wet-behind-the-ears therapist. Jonathan Levine (The Wackness) returns to the genre of tortured youth to direct. It’s equal parts tragic cancer drama and R rated bro-comedy; which written out here sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Yet on the script level and on celluloid, it’s a well rounded, charming, hilarious, heart breaking experience. Knowing that Resier dealt with sickness in his own life only reinforces the believability of the film, but even if you weren’t aware of this fact, it would still come across as deeply personal. The way it consistently and methodically weaves in and out of tragedy and comedy is an ultimate reflection of real life. It’s almost startling to think that it comes from a debut feature writer and how well it succeeds at both. Of course, it’s a cliche to say, “I laughed, I cried,” but there are huge belly laughs and gut wrenching moments of despair separated only by seconds.
Not many actors would have been able to pull it off either. Gordon Levitt is well cast as Adam and allows us to root for him despite the character’s many (intentional) flaws. Rogen, who I mentioned above is pretty much playing himself and who played a similar character in the less successful cancer comedy Funny People, is stellar comic relief while showing some subtlety heretofore unseen. Kendrick holds back her layers (layer, rather) but is nimble and cute enough to get by. Unfortunately, Bryce Dallas Howard’s misguided shrew is a bit above her ability and comes across as soulless. Thankfully then, Angelica Huston makes a human out of what could have been a stock overbearing mother.
There’s a bit of heavy-handedness in one over arching metaphor and it seems Adam’s job serves less purpose than it could have (just like how 500 Days of Summer’s Tom was a greeting card writer). That said, these are nitpicks at a deeply impactful, effective film. It’s one that has something to say about life, love, the human condition, and mortality but doesn’t constantly hit you over the head with it. Hopefully the stigma of cancer and a “cancer movie” won’t be a turn off for mass audiences and it will attract the comedy-seekers and tear-jerkers it deserves.
50/50 sees wide release September 30th.
Here’s a second look at my review of 50/50 which comes out today. Go see it. After a month, everything here still rings true.
Review: 50/50
One day I would like to shake the hand of Seth Rogen. Not for writing Superbad or starring in Knocked Up and Freaks and Geeks. Especially not for Zack and Miri or The Green Hornet. But for 50/50. Regardless of your opinion on him, Rogen’s foresight to give life to Will Reiser’s script is, as of now, his most outstanding contribution to humanity.
50/50 is based on TV producer Reiser’s real life confrontation with cancer in his mid-twenties. Joseph Gordon Levitt plays the autobiographical Adam, Rogen supports as his Seth Rogen-esque best friend (Reiser and Rogen are good friends in real life), and Anna Kendrick rounds out the cast as Adam’s wet-behind-the-ears therapist. Jonathan Levine (The Wackness) returns to the genre of tortured youth to direct. It’s equal parts tragic cancer drama and R rated bro-comedy; which written out here sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Yet on the script level and on celluloid, it’s a well rounded, charming, hilarious, heart breaking experience. Knowing that Resier dealt with sickness in his own life only reinforces the believability of the film, but even if you weren’t aware of this fact, it would still come across as deeply personal. The way it consistently and methodically weaves in and out of tragedy and comedy is an ultimate reflection of real life. It’s almost startling to think that it comes from a debut feature writer and how well it succeeds at both. Of course, it’s a cliche to say, “I laughed, I cried,” but there are huge belly laughs and gut wrenching moments of despair separated only by seconds.
Not many actors would have been able to pull it off either. Gordon Levitt is well cast as Adam and allows us to root for him despite the character’s many (intentional) flaws. Rogen, who I mentioned above is pretty much playing himself and who played a similar character in the less successful cancer comedy Funny People, is stellar comic relief while showing some subtlety heretofore unseen. Kendrick holds back her layers (layer, rather) but is nimble and cute enough to get by. Unfortunately, Bryce Dallas Howard’s misguided shrew is a bit above her ability and comes across as soulless. Thankfully then, Angelica Huston makes a human out of what could have been a stock overbearing mother.
There’s a bit of heavy-handedness in one over arching metaphor and it seems Adam’s job serves less purpose than it could have (just like how 500 Days of Summer’s Tom was a greeting card writer). That said, these are nitpicks at a deeply impactful, effective film. It’s one that has something to say about life, love, the human condition, and mortality but doesn’t constantly hit you over the head with it. Hopefully the stigma of cancer and a “cancer movie” won’t be a turn off for mass audiences and it will attract the comedy-seekers and tear-jerkers it deserves.
50/50 sees wide release September 30th.
Review: 50/50
One day I would like to shake the hand of Seth Rogen. Not for writing Superbad or starring in Knocked Up and Freaks and Geeks. Especially not for Zack and Miri or The Green Hornet. But for 50/50. Regardless of your opinion on him, Rogen’s foresight to give life to Will Reiser’s script is, as of now, his most outstanding contribution to humanity.
50/50 is based on TV producer Reiser’s real life confrontation with cancer in his mid-twenties. Joseph Gordon Levitt plays the autobiographical Adam, Rogen supports as his Seth Rogen-esque best friend (Reiser and Rogen are good friends in real life), and Anna Kendrick rounds out the cast as Adam’s wet-behind-the-ears therapist. Jonathan Levine (The Wackness) returns to the genre of tortured youth to direct. It’s equal parts tragic cancer drama and R rated bro-comedy; which written out here sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Yet on the script level and on celluloid, it’s a well rounded, charming, hilarious, heart breaking experience. Knowing that Resier dealt with sickness in his own life only reinforces the believability of the film, but even if you weren’t aware of this fact, it would still come across as deeply personal. The way it consistently and methodically weaves in and out of tragedy and comedy is an ultimate reflection of real life. It’s almost startling to think that it comes from a debut feature writer and how well it succeeds at both. Of course, it’s a cliche to say, “I laughed, I cried,” but there are huge belly laughs and gut wrenching moments of despair separated only by seconds.
Not many actors would have been able to pull it off either. Gordon Levitt is well cast as Adam and allows us to root for him despite the character’s many (intentional) flaws. Rogen, who I mentioned above is pretty much playing himself and who played a similar character in the less successful cancer comedy Funny People, is stellar comic relief while showing some subtlety heretofore unseen. Kendrick holds back her layers (layer, rather) but is nimble and cute enough to get by. Unfortunately, Bryce Dallas Howard’s misguided shrew is a bit above her ability and comes across as soulless. Thankfully then, Angelica Huston makes a human out of what could have been a stock overbearing mother.
There’s a bit of heavy-handedness in one over arching metaphor and it seems Adam’s job serves less purpose than it could have (just like how 500 Days of Summer’s Tom was a greeting card writer). That said, these are nitpicks at a deeply impactful, effective film. It’s one that has something to say about life, love, the human condition, and mortality but doesn’t constantly hit you over the head with it. Hopefully the stigma of cancer and a “cancer movie” won’t be a turn off for mass audiences and it will attract the comedy-seekers and tear-jerkers it deserves.
50/50 sees wide release September 30th.
