Elizabeth Banks directs ‘Pitch Perfect 2’

One of today’s most sought-after actresses, Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games trilogy) now adds feature-film director to her cap as she helms Universal Pictures’ musical comedy Pitch Perfect 2, the follow-up to 2012’s runaway global hit, Pitch Perfect.

Three years ago, when producing partners and husband-and-wife team Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman joined with Gold Circle Films’ Paul Brooks to bring Pitch Perfect to the screen, they had no idea that the funny, eccentric and formerly internal world of college a cappella would ignite such audience fervor.