Magazine publisher Bauer Media has successfully appealed against the size of a record defamation payout made to Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids star Rebel Wilson. Wilson previously won a case against the publisher in Australian court after she says she was wrongly portrayed as a serial liar. At the time she…

With Monday's grosses, Universal Pictures and Gold Circle Entertainment's Pitch Perfect franchise crossed $500 million at the worldwide box office. The third installment in the series will cross $100 million at the global box office today in its first 12 days of release, with 70% of that coming from U.S./Canada. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Pitch Perfect helmer Jason Moore just signed on to direct Goodbye For Now, an adaptation of the Laurie Frankel book. Temple Hill’s Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen are producing. A computer wiz invents technology allowing messages to be transmitted to the dead. It takes on special significance when the woman he…

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Moore, the Pitch Perfect helmer whose Universal comedy Sisters with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler opens December 18, has just closed a deal for what he hopes will be his next film. Moore and Sisters producer John Lyons sold an untitled pitch to Elizabeth Gabler at Fox 2000. They will move quickly to set a…

Aside from her chops as both a dramatic and comedic actress, Elizabeth Banks made her directorial debut in Pitch Perfect 2. Her production company was also behind both films and is, she says, "hard at work developing Pitch Perfect 3." While the role of Effie in The Hunger Games series catapulted Banks into super-fame…

Pitch Perfect’s Skylar Astin has been cast as one of the two leads in ABC’s untitled NBA buddy comedy pilot, executive produced by Galavant creator Dan Fogelman, Mandalay Sports Media's Peter Guber & Mike Tollin, and Kapital Entertainment's Aaron Kaplan. The pilot is being done with the cooperation of the NBA and…

EXCLUSIVE: Now that Pitch Perfect 2 has its original stars back, director Elizabeth Banks is adding some new aca-flavor to her cast. German DJ, comedian, musician, actor, hype-man, host, and YouTube personality Flula Borg is the latest to join the Universal Pictures and Gold Circle Films musical sequel about college a…

EXCLUSIVE: After stealing scenes in 2012’s a cappella comedy hit Pitch Perfect, comedian and actor Adam DeVine is returning for the upcoming sequel from Universal Pictures and Gold Circle Films. The Workaholics star/co-creator gave Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson‘s Bellas some stiff competition in the first film as…

Actress and producer Elizabeth Banks is making her feature directorial debut with Universal’s Pitch Perfect 2, the sequel to the 2012 $115M hit about a college student who joins an a capella group. Banks, who’s set to appear in a run of upcoming pics including WB’s The Lego Movie and the YA sequel The Hunger Games: Moc…

EXCLUSIVE: Freddie Stroma will star in The Visitors, the indie feature written and to be directed by The Vicious Brothers (Grave Encounters). The film is a dark and edgy sci-fi thriller that revolves around a group of friends on a weekend trip to a cabin in the woods. There, they are terrorized by alien visitors who…

A cappella singing is hot at the moment following the success of feature Pitch Perfect, about competing college a cappella groups. So American Idol producer 19 Entertainment and its parent company CORE Media Group have signed an exclusive deal with Varsity Vocals, the collegiate a cappella organization that organizes…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired an untitled comedy based on a pitch from Pitch Perfect star Rebel Wilson. She hatched the original idea and is attached to write, produce and star. After starring in Universal/Gold Circle’s sleeper comedy Pitch Perfect, Bachelorette and before that Bridesmaids, Wilson will…