Pitch Perfect may not have earned enormous numbers at the box office, but it's undoubtedly become a powerful addition to the cult teen movie canon in the years since - and with the much-hyped sequel due for release in May 2015, a first poster has finally been unveiled. It's Aca-awesome (sorry not sorry).
The one-sheet shows the cast - including the returning Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and Brittany Snow - with their backs turned, standing in a line below the teaser tagline: "We're back, pitches". But hey, don't take our word for it...
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A peek behind the scenes has also been delivered by the latest ish of Entertainment Weekly, which sees actor Elizabeth Banks joking that making her directorial debut on such a feverishly anticipated movie was "the stupidest idea I've ever had". The star, who also plays Effie in the Hunger Games franchise, said: "My first movie is this huge studio movie that a lot of people care about that also happens to be a musical with massive dance numbers. I don't know what I was thinking."
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While she's the first to admit that the first movie's box office success was "pretty modest", Banks recognises too that there are much "higher stakes" this time around - mainly because the predecessor "engendered a lot of love... That's what we could not have foreseen." She has a strong team around her, though: in addition to returning faves Kendrick, Wilson and Snow, the likes of Anna Camp and Skylar Austin are also both back on board, while Hailee Steinfeld is set to appear as a new addition.
While the 2012 movie itself was great, it was the soundtrack that really gave it an extra kick. A capella medleys like 'Price Tag'/'Don't You (Forget About Me)'/'Give Me Everything' went down a storm, as did Anna Kendrick's track 'Cups'; which went on to become a breakout chart smash and peak inside the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 a long, long time after the film's release. The wait to see what's in store in the sequel is almost too much to handle...
