Following the success of helming “ Pitch Perfect 2 ,” Elizabeth Banks is set to return as the director of the next installment in the Universal and Circle of Confusion musical-comedy, sources tell Variety.
Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow and Rebel Wilson have already closed deals to return, with Kay Cannon on board to pen the script. The studio recently dated the film to bow on Aug. 4, 2017, but at the time Banks was weighing other projects to direct and hadn’t committed to return.
The multi-hyphenate is currently attached to helm Uni’s “ Red Queen” adaptation and Sony’s “Charlie’s Angels” reboot, but both films are still in development.
The 2012 original grossed $113 million worldwide, while “ Pitch Perfect 2 ″ has more than doubled that, grossing $286 million worldwide to date on a $29 million budget.
The original film was adapted from Mickey Rapkin’s book “ Pitch Perfect : The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory.
Pitch Perfect 3
Dad's Army (2016)
'Dreams do come true!' Taylor Swift meets with young cancer sufferer backstage at her Atlanta concert
What a night: Taylor Swift's mom made a young cancer sufferer's dream come true when she arranged for the 6-year-old to meet with the singer backstageTaylor Swift gave one of her young fans a night to remember on Saturday.
Taylor Rayburn, who is suffering with a rare form of kidney cancer, was spotted in the audience by the singer's mother Andrea and given quite the VIP experience during Swift's Atlanta concert.
Andrea Swift, who is also suffering from cancer, plucked the six-year-old out of the crowd to sit with her during a song before arranging a backstage meet and greet with the songstress herself.
Little Taylor was pictured getting a hug from Swift, 25, which the girl's mother posted on her Facebook page Project Team Taylor writing: 'Thanks Ms. Andrea, dreams really do come true!!!!'
Allison Rayburn also explained that she had surprised her daughter with tickets to the show after she spent her birthday receiving treatment in hospital.
'Our seats happened to be close to where Taylor Swift's entourage was. Taylor Swift's mom noticed Taylor and let Taylor sit next to her for a song and at the end of the concert took us backstage to meet Taylor Swift!!!!' she excitedly explained.
Female Title Characters
All of these characters have their first name in the title of their film, which character do you prefer? This is part one of two polls this looks at A-J characters.
Alice
Alice in Wonderland (1951), Kathryn Beaumont
Alice Hyatt
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Ellen Burstyn
Amélie Poulain
Amélie (2001), Audrey Tautou
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina (2012), Greta Garbo
Annie
Lights, Camera, Annie! (1982), Aileen Quinn
Annie Hall
Annie Hall (1977), Diane Keaton
Baby Jane Hudson
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Bette Davis
Barbarella
Barbarella (1968), Jane Fonda
Bonnie Parker
Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Faye Dunaway
Bridget Jones
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Renée Zellweger
Carrie White
Carrie (1976), Sissy Spacek
Cinderella
Cinderella (1950), Ilene Woods
Coffy
Coffy (1973), Pam Grier
Coraline Jones
Coraline (2009), Dakota Fanning
Cristina
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Scarlett Johansson
Daisy Werthan
Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Jessica Tandy
Erin Brockovich
Erin Brockovich (2000), Julia Roberts
Eve Harrington
All About Eve (1950), Anne Baxter
Eve White
The Three Faces of Eve (1957), Joanne Woodward
Frida Kahlo
Frida (2002), Salma Hayek
Gilda
Gilda (1946), Rita Hayworth
Gloria Swenson
Gloria (1980), Gena Rowlands
Grace Trevethyn
Saving Grace (2000), Brenda Blethyn
Gretel
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Gemma Arterton
Hanna
Hanna (2011), Saoirse Ronan
Heidi
as played by Shirley Temple in Heidi (1937)
Jackie Brown
Jackie Brown (1997), Pam Grier
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre (2011), Mia Wasikowska
Jasmine
Blue Jasmine (2013), Cate Blanchett
Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969),
Maggie Smith
Jessica Stein
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001), Jennifer Westfeldt
Juliet
Romeo + Juliet (1996), Claire Danes
Juno MacGuff
Juno (2007), Ellen Page
The Hunger Games (2012)
San Andreas (2015)
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey with his ex-wife across the state in order to rescue his daughter.
Director: Brad Peyton
Writers: Carlton Cuse (screenplay), Andre Fa...
Which of these album do you find hard to forget
Which of these album do you find hard to forget? Discuss the list here
Quincy Jones
And various artists for album "Back on the Block". 1991
Natalie Cole
"Unforgettable... with Love". 1992
Eric Clapton
"Unplugged". 1993
Whitney Houston
"The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album". 1994
Tony Bennett
"MTV Unplugged". 1995
Alanis Morissette
"Jagged Little Pill". 1996
Céline Dion
"Falling into You". 1997
Bob Dylan
"Time out of Mind". 1998
Lauryn Hill
"The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill". 1999
Santana
"Supernatural". 2000
Steely Dan
"Two Against Nature". 2001
Dan Tyminski
Various artists album from film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000), including Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Harry McClint…
Norah Jones
"Come Away with Me". 2003
Outkast
"Speakerboxxx/The Love Below". 2004
Ray Charles
And various artists for album "Genius Loves Company". 2005
U2
"How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb". 2006
Dixie Chicks
"Taking the Long Way". 2007
Herbie Hancock
"River: The Joni Letters". 2008
Robert Plant
And Alison Krauss for album "Raising Sand". 2009
Taylor Swift
"Fearless". 2010
Arcade Fire
"The Suburbs". 2011
Adele
"21". 2012
Mumford & Sons
"Babel". 2013
The World's Highest-Paid Celebrities 2015
The World's Highest-Paid Celebrities 2015
According to Forbes, these are 2015 Top 35 Highest-Paid Celebrities. Whose work do you think worth every penny? Discuss them here.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
$300M
Manny Pacquiao
$160M
Katy Perry
$135M
One Direction
$130M
Howard Stern
$95M
Garth Brooks
$90M
James Patterson
$89M
Robert Downey Jr.
$80M
Taylor Swift
$80M
Cristiano Ronaldo
$79.5M
Rush Limbaugh
$79M
Ellen DeGeneres
$75M
Lionel Messi
$74M
Eagles
$73.5M
Phil McGraw
$70M
Roger Federer
$67M
Calvin Harris
$66M
LeBron James
$65M
Justin Timberlake
$63.5M
David Copperfield
$63M
Sean Combs
$60M
Gordon Ramsay
$60M
Ryan Seacrest
$60M
Fleetwood Mac
$59.5M
Lady Gaga
$59M
The Rolling Stones
$57.5M
Ed Sheeran
$56M
Jay Z
$57M
Beyoncé Knowles
$54.5M
Kevin Durant
$52M
Elton John
$53.5M
Toby Keith
$53M
Kim Kardashian West
$52.5M
Jennifer Lawrence
$52M
Paul McCartney
$51.5M
5 Most Outstanding Women of AskMen 2015
5 Most Outstanding Women of AskMen 2015
Who from the following women in the top 5 Most Outstanding Women of AskMen magazine for year 2015 is the most deserved to win this title. Discuss here The full AskMen top 99 outstanding women you can see here
1. Emma Watson
Hermione Granger is courageous, loyal and moral to a fault — she embodies the best of J.K. Rowling's wizarding world. So it's fitting that the little.
2. Ronda Rousey
Whatever you do, don't tell Ronda Rousey she fights like a girl. For one, as the recent #LikeAGirl hashtag made abundantly clear, it's time to drop an.
3. Kim Kardashian West
Those who know Kim from Keeping Up With the Kardashians might be quick to write her off. But if you step back and take a look at the facts, Kim has ma.
4. Taylor Swift
Their fates may be forever entwined, but it's coincidental that Taylor Swift's career arc is starting to look a bit like Kanye's. After a strong first.
5. Lindsey Vonn
Lindsey Vonn currently holds the world record for women's World Cup skiing wins and just bagged her 64th. This makes her, yes, the greatest female ski.
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift is a multi-Grammy award-winning American singer/songwriter who, in 2010 at the age of 20, became the youngest artist in history to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In 2011 Swift was named Billboard's Woman of the Year. She also has been named the American Music Awards Artist of the Year, as well as the Entertainer of the Year for both the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music, among many other accolades. As of this writing, she is also the top-selling digital artist in music history.
Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania, to Andrea (Finlay), a one-time marketing executive, and Scott Kingsley Swift, a financial adviser. Her ancestry includes German and English, as well as some Scottish, Irish, Welsh and 1/16th Italian. She was named after James Taylor, and her mother believed that if she had a gender neutral name it would help her forge a business career. Taylor spent most of her childhood on an 11-acre Christmas tree farm in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. When she was nine years old the family moved to Wyomissing, PA, where she attended West Reading Elementary Center and Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School. Taylor spent her summers at her parents' vacation home at the Jersey shore. Her first hobby was English horse riding. Her mother put her in a saddle when she was nine months old and Swift later competed in horse shows. At the age of nine she turned her attention to musical theatre and performed in Berks Youth Theatre Academy productions of "Grease", "Annie", "Bye Bye Birdie" and "The Sound of Music". She traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons. However, after a few years of auditioning in New York and not getting anything, she became interested in country music. At age 11, after many attempts, Taylor won a local talent competition by singing a rendition of LeAnn Rimes' "Big Deal", and was given the opportunity to appear as the opening act for
Charlie Daniels at a Strausstown amphitheater. This interest in country music isolated Swift from her middle school peers.
At age 12 she was shown by a computer repairman how to play three chords on a guitar, inspiring her to write her first song, "Lucky You". She had previously won a national poetry contest with a poem entitled "Monster in My Closet", but now began to focus on songwriting. She moved to Nashville at age 14, having secured an artist development deal with RCA Records. She left RCA Records when she was 15--the label wanted her to record the work of other songwriters and wait until she was 18 to release an album, but she felt ready to launch her career with her own material. At an industry showcase at Nashville's The Bluebird Café in 2005, Swift caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a Dreamworks Records executive who was preparing to form his own independent record label, Big Machine Records. Taylor was one of the new label's first signings.
Taylor released her debut album, "Taylor Swift", in October of 2006 and received generally positive reviews from music critics. The New York Times described it as "a small masterpiece of pop-minded country, both wide-eyed and cynical, held together by Ms. Swift's firm, pleading voice". Her single "Our Song" made her the youngest solo writer and singer of a #1 country song. The album sold 39,000 copies during its first week. In 2008 she released her second studio album, "Fearless". The lead single from the album, "Love Story", was released in September 2008 and became the second best-selling country single of all time, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Four more singles were released throughout 2008 and 2009: "White Horse", "You Belong with Me", "Fifteen" and "Fearless". "You Belong with Me" was the album's highest-charting single, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart. It was the top-selling album of 2009 and brought Swift much crossover success.
In September 2009 she became the first country music artist to win an MTV Video Music Award when "You Belong with Me" was named Best Female Video. Her acceptance speech was interrupted by rapper Kanye West, who had been involved in a number of other award show incidents. West declared Beyoncé Knowles's video for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", nominated in the same category, to be "one of the best videos of all time". When Beyoncé later won the award for Video of the Year, she invited Taylor onstage to finish her speech. In November 2009 Taylor Swift became the youngest ever artist, and one of only six women, to be named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association.
She released her third studio album in October 2010, "Speak Now", and wrote all the songs herself. She originally intended to call the album "Enchanted" but Scott Borchetta, her record label's CEO, felt the title did not reflect the album's more adult themes. Swift toured throughout 2011 and early 2012 in support of "Speak Now". As part of the 13-month, 111-date world tour, Swift played seven shows in Asia, 12 in Europe, 80 in North America and 12 in Australasia (three dates on the US tour were rescheduled after she fell ill with bronchitis). The stage show was inspired by Broadway musical theatre, with choreographed routines, elaborate set-pieces, pyrotechnics and numerous costume changes. Swift invited many musicians to join her for one-off duets during the North American tour. Appearances were made by James Taylor, Jason Mraz, Shawn Colvin, Johnny Rzeznik, Andy Grammer, Tal Bachman, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Nicki Minaj, Nelly, B.o.B., Usher Raymond, Flo Rida,
T.I., Jon Foreman, Jim Adkins, Hayley Williams, Hot Chelle Rae, Ronnie Dunn, Darius Rucker, Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney. In May 2012 Taylor featured in B.o.B's song "Both of Us".
Swift's fourth studio album, "Red", was released on October 22, 2012. She wrote nine of the album's 16 songs alone; the remaining seven were co-written with Max Martin, Liz Rose, Dan Wilson, Ed Sheeran and Gary Lightbody. Nathan Chapman served as the album's lead producer but Jeff Bhasker, Butch Walker, Jacknife Lee, Dann Huff and Karl Schuster (aka Shellback) also produced individual tracks. Chapman has said he encouraged Swift "to branch out and to test herself in other situations". She has described the collaborative process as "an apprenticeship" that taught her to "paint with different colors". "Red" examines Swift's attraction to drama-filled relationships; she believes that, since writing the record, such relationships no longer appeal to her. Musically, while there is some experimentation with "slick, electronic beats", the pop sheen is limited to a handful of tracks sprinkled among more recognizably Swiftian fare. "Rolling Stone" enjoyed "watching Swift find her pony-footing on Great Songwriter Mountain. She often succeeds in joining the Joni/Carole King tradition of stark-relief emotional mapping . . . Her self-discovery project is one of the best stories in pop." The Guardian described Swift as a "Brünnhilde of a rock star" and characterized "Red" as "another chapter in one of the finest fantasies pop music has ever constructed". "USA Today" felt that the "engaging" record saw Swift "write ever-more convincingly--and wittily and painfully--about the messy emotions of a young twenty something nearing the end of her transition from girl to woman". The "Los Angeles Times" noted the exploration of "more nuanced relationship issues" on "an unapologetically big pop record that opens new sonic vistas for her".
As part of the "Red" promotional campaign, representatives from 72 worldwide radio stations were flown to Nashville during release week for individual interviews with Swift. She made television appearances on Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003), Good Morning America (1975), The View (1997), Late Show with David Letterman (1993), ABC News Nightline (1980) and 20/20: All Access Nashville with Katie Couric (2012). She performed at Los Angeles' MTV VMAs and London's Teen Awards, and will also perform at Nashville's CMA Awards, Frankfurt's MTV Europe Music Awards, Los Angeles' AMA Awards and Sydney's ARIA Music Awards. Swift offered exclusive album promotions through Target, Papa John's and Walgreens. She became a spokesmodel for Keds sneakers, released her sophomore Elizabeth Arden fragrance and continued her partnerships with Cover Girl, Sony Electronics and American Greetings, as well as her unofficial brand tie-ins with Ralph Lauren and Shellys. The album's lead single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", was released in August 2012. The song became Swift's first #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, recording the highest ever one-week sales figures for a female artist. Two further singles have since been released: "Begin Again" (country radio) and "I Knew You Were Trouble" (pop and international radio).In her career, as of May 2012, Swift has sold over 23 million albums and 54.5 million digital tracks worldwide.
Taylor Swift is only beginning to emerge as an acting talent, having voiced the role of Audrey in the animated feature The Lorax (2012). She also made appearances in the theatrical release
Valentine's Day (2010) and in an episode of
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000). She contributed two original songs to The Hunger Games (2012) soundtrack: "Safe & Sound featuring The Civil Wars" and "Eyes Open". Taylor released her fifth album, titled "1989", on October 27, 2014. This album is when she finally made the complete transition from country to pop. She says that she will not be going to any Country Music Award shows. The album is named after the year she was born, and is a sort of '80s-sounding album, in the sense that it's more electronic.
In July-August 2015 She's Engaged to Ireland's Radio Disc Jockey Calvin Harris when they met since May this year while at "The 2015 Billboard Music Awards."