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Directed by | Elizabeth Banks |
Written by | Kay Cannon |
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Cinematography | Jim Denault |
Edited by | Craig Alpert |
Music by | Mark Mothersbaugh |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 115 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $29–31 million[2][3] |
Box office | $287.5 million[4] |
Pitch Perfect 2 is a 2015 American musical comedy film directed and produced by Elizabeth Banks and written by Kay Cannon. It is a sequel to the 2012 film Pitch Perfect. The film centers on the fictional Barden University Bellas, an all-female a cappella singing group, who try to beat out a competing German musical group in a world singing championship. The film features Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Skylar Astin, Adam DeVine, Anna Camp, Ben Platt, Hana Mae Lee, Alexis Knapp, Ester Dean, Kelly Jakle, Shelley Regner, John Michael Higgins, and Banks all reprising their roles from the previous film, now joined by Hailee Steinfeld, Katey Sagal, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, and Flula Borg.
The film was released in the United States on May 15, 2015, by Universal Pictures. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $287.5 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).[5] A sequel, Pitch Perfect 3, was released on December 22, 2017.[6][7]