There’s the artsy girl who works at the school’s radio station and remixes the group’s songs (Anna Kendrick). In case you weren’t one of those fangirls, a quick primer: “Pitch Perfect” follows the Barden Bellas, an a cappella group whose members bond as they try to pull their act together for a national singing competition. Kids were driving their parents batty trying to master “Cups,” the film’s most popular song with a rhythmic portion that requires hand-clapping and a paper cup. High-schoolers began hosting sing-along slumber parties. The demographic fully embraced the picture’s girl power-centric storyline and the soundtrack’s creative spin on Top 40 hits. They drove the majority of the ticket sales for the film during its domestic run, where it grossed $65 million – a healthy sum for a $17 million production, certainly, but not blockbuster money. The young females came first opening weekend, the audience was 81 percent female, with 55 percent under age 25.
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The scope of the phenomenon is likely to be felt this weekend with the opening of “Pitch Perfect 2.” In its opening weekend, the film could make more than half what the first movie did during its entire run.
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It’s the kind of story that happens rarely in Hollywood these days – the true word-of-mouth hit. But his surprising confession was just one of many unlikely developments that led to the studio greenlighting a highly anticipated sequel to what was only a modest box office success.
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Universal Pictures executives giddily passed around audio from Stern’s show, taken aback by the film’s unlikely fan.