Blind Item #9
Big divide at that wedding this weekend. If you are team co-star who got married, you showed up. If you are team co-star who was not present, then you followed her lead and weren't there. All of the cast was invited. This should make for a wonderful continuing working relationship.
Anna Camp/Sjylar Astin
ReplyDeleteThe SylarAstin/Anna Camp wedding...so Anna Kendrick/Rebel Wilson PP franchise
ReplyDeleteGod, who cares about the Pitch Perfect people enough for this? There's Kendrick and then a bunch of nobodies. Next.
ReplyDeleteDidn't see who didn't show up from Pitch Perfect
ReplyDeleteActually, Ground Floor was pretty funny.
ReplyDeleteAnna Camp marriage missing costar Anna Kendrick
ReplyDeleteQuick instagram check says:
ReplyDeleteThere: Anna Camp, Skylar Satin (duh, they got married)
Brittney Snow, Rebel Wilson, Kelly Jackle, Elizabeth Banks
Not there: Anna Kendrick, Chrissie Fit, Hailee Steinfeld, Ester Dean
Although it seems to fit with some of the earlier blinds with Wilson/Kendrick, some of the rumors that hit other sites, and some of the comments our own illustrious Rory made in threads about how PR works to try and kill blinds like this one.
Rory, paging Rory party of one! Let's hear what you got!
Hailee was at TIFF promoting a movie in the middle of a concert tour she's on. She couldn't have made it if she wanted to. Rebel & Anna have been rumored to be in a feud, same with Elizabeth Banks. Brittany Snow said real clear in an interview that her & Anna were friends, but she also said they weren't super close. Anna was supporting Kelly when she did 2 shows in LA, so I don't think Kelly is against Anna.
ReplyDeleteEnty's had blinds about Anna Camp & Skyler about how they're both gay. AK & AC used to be close, spending Thanksgiving together, but something must have happened that split them all up like this. The last comments I read of Rory's were about him starting work on a project & maybe someone from the movie found out he was posting on here or he got worried that someone would figure it out. There's something up with the cast, that's for sure. Enty might have it partially right, but there's some tension with that cast.
Wah wah. Second place.
ReplyDeleteYou mean ... there will be more Pitch Perfect movies? Why?
ReplyDeleteBecause the 2nd made almost $300 million world wide on a budget of $27 million.
ReplyDeleteYeah, AK BS and AC were all close around the first film and into the second but then something seems to have happened. Rory had mentioned there were rumors amongst the crew but not what they were. He also talked a lot about the PR spin machine and how that works (if you can find the threads read them...interesting stuff on how the process works). So I sort of take Snow's comments as part of that process since Kendrick made some of the exact same statements a couple weeks later in an interview. When you quote the script don't actually QUOTE the script, you know?
ReplyDeleteWhat seems kind of telling, after taking a trip through social media is that only Chrissie Fit said anything about the wedding from the ones who weren't there.
Yeah, they greenlit the 3rd which was supposed to be out end of this year. But our insider, Rory, said there were issues. Turned out he was right and the movie was pushed to next summer and then next winter. Then they lost the director and only just got a new one last week when they were already supposed to be filming.
ReplyDeleteSounds like the off camera is going to be more interesting then the film...maybe they should just put that on the screen
Doesn't appear she was trying to be in first place. That's someone else. Looks more like she was answering the blind completely and naming the costars. If you wish to troll nice people here must you be as dreadfully sophomoric at it as you are.
ReplyDeleteAnd believe us, you are.
Brittney Snow was IN the wedding party. They've been talking about it for months and trying to get her to sing.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that nobody that didn't show up said a word about it. Not a pic on Instagram or a quick Tweet. They have to know fans will notice things like that, so they have to want people to know they're not getting along. I hope people that work on the set give us gossip about what's happening, because it sounds like there's some big fights on the way.
ReplyDeleteHope he comments on this. From what I saw he sort of stopped out of the blue. Wonder if he got in trouble for spilling secrets.
ReplyDeleteNah, I think it was work. He mentioned he had a potential gig to fill the gap between then and PP3 so he's probably working hard on that
ReplyDeleteOf all the "insiders" that show up on these boards he seemed the most legit and the most careful
Anna Camp is gay?
ReplyDeleteWho are you, do you even go here? Tricia13 is the biggest frister here hands down.
ReplyDeleteYeah. At this point I wonder if the thing will even get made. And if it does, I doubt the chemistry will be any good. I mean, a lot of the interactions weren't so strong in the last one compared to the first...if the cast is fighting I cannot imagine any of them are good enough at acting to make it completely unnoticeable
ReplyDeleteI cannot believe it made that much money. Damn dvd sales.
ReplyDeleteSo let me guess, in the third installment, they graduate and one of them gets married. zzzzzz. And in the fourth, they sing the couple's baby to sleep. (I shouldn't give them any ideas.)
Um...you're actually right about the 3rd one (Fat Amy's wedding was the rumored main thing)
ReplyDeleteOnly according to Enty. Take blinds here with a great big grain of salt. Many of them are crap but every so often Enty knocks one out of the park
ReplyDeleteThe nearly $300 million was what it made in movie theaters. It doesn't include DVD sales, streaming deals with Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon, & it doesn't include any money they make from broadcast deals. It may have made over $500 million when all was said & done.
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering if it'll get made too. I hear Kendrick is really pissed off at the makers of PP3 because they have basically held her career hostage for the past 6 months and she hasn't been able to do anything else since.
ReplyDeleteAnna hasn't been on a film set in 14 months. That must be driving her mad. PP3 was supposed to film in the spring but keeps getting pushed back. And the actors can't sign on to do anything else because they're all waiting on PP3.
If PP3 isn't shooting by November, I can see it getting cancelled. It's not fair what they're doing to the cast. You can't hold people hostage like that.
I, for one, thank them for keeping her from making indy crapfests like most of the ones she has out the last two years.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that's right. Brittany Snow's worked on a couple movies & she's going to be on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Kelly Jackle's done a few musicals, Chrissie FIt's been doing voice acting & acting on a TV show, Hailee Steinfeld's done a movie & been working on her music career, (She's been touring all summer,) Rebel Wilson did a run on the West End for Guys & Dolls, Adam Devine's done a movie & is working on his TV show Workaholics, Ben Platt's been working on the musical he co-wrote that's going to be on Broadway this season, Anna Camp's been doing a Netflix show, & Anna Kendrick's been working on her book, doing crazy long press tours for all the movies she's had come out this year, (she'll be doing that for the other movies she's got the rest of this year,) & Annas been doing voice work on Trolls & recording music for it.
ReplyDeleteAnna's also getting the biggest payday she's ever got on a movie for Pitch Perfect 3. I seriously doubt she's mad at them for holding her career hostage. From what she's said Trolls has been re-recording & adding new dialog & songs throughout this year. There was an animator that said they're still finishing the movie just a few weeks ago. She might not be on a real film set, but she's still working on a movie. If she wanted to do something else & had the time in her schedule she easily could have done a movie or a play like the rest of the cast has.
Most of those projects the other cast are involved with were small things they were already signed on to do many months ago that didn't take up much time. Anything anyone could do now would have to be very quick and easy, like most of them have done. But I don't think that's what Anna is looking for. She's far bigger than any of them and is likely eyeing mainstream Hollywood films, where production takes up a lot of time. You can't compare working on a major film production to someone doing a cameo on a TV show or someone doing a small play. Plus, a lot of the actors you mentioned have very small roles in PP and might not even be back for the next one. Platt and Devine probably won't return and Camp had just a small cameo in the last film. Only Kendrick, Snow and Wilson have been asked back so far. And Wilson even had to quit the play she was doing in August because she was told PP3 would start shooting in September, which obviously ain't happening now.
ReplyDeleteOf course right now she can't do anything, but the production being delayed isn't a new thing. The movie was originally supposed to start shooting at the start of this year, so when it got delayed everyone took other jobs, including Rebel, Brittany, & even Elizabeth Banks who hadn't dropped out at that point. Anna could have done that, but she didn't. She did a ton of press for the movies she had coming out this year & she was also writing her book & then going through the editing process for that book.
ReplyDeleteI shouldn't have said Anna could have done a role during this time because the more I looked at what she was doing this year the more I realize she was pretty much working the entire time. Not just Trolls, but all the press she's done, & then thinking about the writing & editing process for her book, everything she's done would take up a ton of time. And I don't think Anna cares about a movie being a big production or not. She's flat out said before that she takes jobs because they interest her, or she would be able to work with someone she wanted to work with, or it was shooting in a place she wanted to go. Plus she's getting $6 million for the next Pitch Perfect movie, so I don't think she really gives a damn about how big the movie is.
Rebel fit in the time it takes to do a musical on the West End during most of the summer. She left the end of August, so she pretty much had the summer to work on that. Anna could have done something then if she wanted to & her schedule wasn't packed with all the press for the wedding movie & Trolls. That's why I'm now thinking Anna couldn't work on something because she was doing so much press for her movies & working on Trolls. But that's not because of Pitch Perfect, that's all her responsibilities from other movies & her book.
Now I have to wonder if one of the people involved has a crack PR team that actually pays attention to the site. Or maybe just the studio is on it. Seems like every time Enty posts one of these blinds some sort of picture crops up to knock it down.
ReplyDeleteInstagram tag: #creepLA if you are interested in what I mean
What I'm trying to say is that PP3 should've been done by now. I'm not talking about what she could've done in the spring. I mean now. If PP3 started on time, production would be well over by now, and everyone would be moving on to other things, but they can't. Anna was busy in the spring, but she hasn't been for the past couple months since Mike & Dave opened.
ReplyDeleteThe PR stuff Anna is doing for Trolls right now is because she has nothing else going on. That's why she's doing it. She doesn't have much else going on so she can do extra PR for it. Her book was finished a few months ago, so that isn't an issue anymore. Also, as far as work goes, Anna has made a lot of comments recently that she wants to work harder to get better roles. She knows its been awhile since she's done something really high quality. I think we'll see her taking a break from doing small indie films for awhile. It's hurting her career and she knows it. She needs to do some bigger films.
The point is, PP3 being on hold is stopping everyone from moving on with their lives. Things can get delayed, but it's been what, 6 months now or something? The whole thing is turning into a mess. Last I heard they still didn't even have a script!
Yeah, that was the last thing Rory had mentioned. And Adam Devine not being contacted is weird since it had looked like the Bumper/Amy wedding was a big deal.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the Bellas will be teaming up with Looney tunes characters to have an intergalactic acapella showdown against aliens...
From what the guy that works on the movies said the script was delayed at the start of the year because Kay Cannon was having trouble with it. She was on a podcast & said she was done with the script in March. I saw something that said the script had a re-write by the guy that wrote School of Rock, but I don't know when that happened. The Rory guy said something about the execs wanting the movie to be Christmas themed, so that caused some re-writes & pushed back filming too. I'm pretty sure I read that the script has been finished for at least a couple months.
ReplyDeleteThe big problem was not having a director that could do location scouting & casting of any new characters parts. Now that they've got a director there's no excuse for any more delays. If there's more delays after this then I can see there being some serious problems.
Anna's talked about wanting a break from working any way, so I highly doubt she's all that mad at everyone involved in the movie. And if that Rory guy was right Anna would be more mad at Kay Cannon because she's the one that caused the original delays by having trouble finishing the script on time. Anna's friends with her, so I doubt she's mad at Kay. As for Anna's career being hurt...... she said in an interview that she doesn't have anything to complain about in her professional life. But she had some problems in her personal life. That was an interview from a month or 2 ago. That doesn't sound like someone that thinks her career is a problem. That's also one of the interviews where she talked about wanting a break. As for her doing more PR because she has free time..... that's just not true. That's not how PR on movies is done. Those press interviews & events have to be planned out many months in advance & if the studio had her doing more press then she was contracted to do they would have to pay her more money. Mike & Dave didn't do well, but it had a huge ad budget so that's why they had so much press. Trolls is also a big budget movie & it's the last one that the now former owner of Dreamworks is doing, so he's been having Justin & Anna do a ton of work on it. Justin & Anna have also talked about recording new lines for Trolls, so they were still working on that movie during the summer.
Anna's doing bigger films. It's a matter of those films doing well at the box office & some of the bigger movies she's done don't do well. Fox thought Mike & Dave was going to be a big movie & that it would be good counter programming during the summer against all the big action movies, but it didn't do well. Into the Woods had a bigger budget, had Meryl Streep & did ok at the box office. Trolls cost over $100 million to make & like Mike & Dave it has a big ad budget. They're expecting big things for it. The Accountant has a crazy good cast & is for Warner Brothers. It's got some early Oscar buzz too. Those Indie movies she does don't always do well & many of them are just plain bad, but most people don't even know those movies exist because they're straight to VOD / DVD movies. There was a story years ago about Anna trying to get her own franchise, like a Hunger Games, or getting into the Marvel or DC movies. Then Pitch Perfect 2 was getting made, did well, & now she's in a franchise. She's got bigger films, so I doubt she "needs" one.
I was going to comment about this! It sure is weird timing that a blind like this appears & Anna decides to go out with Kelly & Brittany, taking a bunch of pics together looking like they're having fun. To me a lot of those pics look really forced. Anna was almost doing over the top laughing in some of the pics with Brittany. I could see the studio realizing that blinds like this could eventually hurt the movie if more people find out about problems with the cast. There's been stories that weren't blind items that flat out said there was feuding between the cast. The stories about Anna being difficult can hurt the success of a movie too. It could be the studio or it could be the girls realizing all the stories & blinds could hurt the movie so they're trying to look like everything is fine so fans won't know anything is wrong.
ReplyDeleteHonestly I just assumed Kendrick being weird in the pictures was because a) she's a weird chick and b) she drinks a lot before going out in public
ReplyDeleteHow would you know if she drinks a lot before going out? No one other than Anna and her closest friends would know something like that. I highly doubt she's drunk every time she goes out in public. You creepy stalker fans really need to find another hobby.
ReplyDeleteAnd lol to the guy presuming Anna and Brittany's friendship is fake and forced. They've been friends a long time. Not everything is some big conspiracy.
Based only on her own interviews about how she and JT were drunk a lot on their European tour and the proliferation of booze mentions in social media. I mean, when one of your instagram pics for getting ready for Trolls PR is you getting ready with a glass of whiskey in hand...to me that says someone needs a bit of liquid courage. And another getting ready for a red carpet is you with a Moscow Mule. Plus, one of the insiders (Rory who we talked about above) in a previous thread mentioned something about her "certainly liking her booze" or some such.
ReplyDeleteGranted, my own cynical nature could be reading more into that comment by Rory and those images then intended, but when someone calls something like that out it does seem indicative.
In one of the other pics of her with one of her male friends at Creep LA she's holding a glass with booze in it.
ReplyDelete"And lol to the guy presuming....."
ReplyDeleteWell, we're on a gossip site that's run multiple stories about Anna feuding with the Pitch Perfect cast. This blind says the people that went to the wedding are on one side & the ones that didn't go are on Anna's side. Brittany was in the wedding party, so based on the blind she would be on the side against Anna. Now sure, most if not all of the blinds on here are probably BS, but the comments on CDAN are based around the blind items & other gossip.
Based on that other gossip & blinds here Brittany & Anna aren't close friends anymore. The timing of them being photographed together is really suspect. And yes, many of those pics look forced as hell. They scream "there's gossip about feuding & that's bad PR for the movie, so get together & look like you're still friends!" That's what it looks like to me. But I know just because it looks like it to me doesn't mean it's reality. It's what I have to go on though & to me that's what it looks like. There's a very fake quality to some of those pics & like I said the timing of getting together days after blind items about the cast looks pretty weird to me.
This comment was to Samey.
ReplyDeleteAlso to Samey, I'm not a guy. If you think we're stalker fans you really should look at past blinds about Anna, because those have the real stalker fans on them. The ones that get deep into her relationships & claim to be her best friends. Those people are what stalkers really look like.
ReplyDeleteTo RandomGuy, I don't mean to be rude but you really need to look up the word sarcasm. Anna has a very dark sense of humour, and she is extremely sarcastic. Never, ever, take what she says on Twitter too seriously. She's making a joke. And the photos are always staged photos. If anyone can take anything from her social media is that she loves playing it up for cameras.
ReplyDeleteTo Yep, maybe I'm missing something, but I just looked at some of those Instagram photos and they all look normal to me. I don't see anything forced. They look the same as they always do. Anna doesn't appear to be the type to fake friendships. Not her style. And like you said yourself, the blinds here are BS. Why anyone would believe this to be true just baffles me.
ReplyDeleteI'm not taking your comments as rude just that you have a firm stance on the topic which is all cool.
ReplyDeleteI know sarcasm and dark senses of humor, both pervade my friends group. I think you can agree though that staged pictures and social media comments with a recurring theme of "booze" certainly paints a certain picture. To your original point, you are absolutely correct that only she and the people who know her can say if that certain picture is accurate or illusion. But to my point, if they are crafting an image, that image seems to have a drink in its hand quite often and more often when a public appearance is about to happen. So maybe the image isn't quite what they intend?
Let me put it to you this way, you know those people that you go out for a beer with, and the next day they tell everyone how they got wasted? Even though it was only like, 1 or 2 beers they had? We all have at least one friend like that. Well, Anna is that person. She talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. She was an outcast in high school and likely missed out on the sorts of things teens do so now feels like she has to compensate for it. It's just talk. I'm not saying she doesn't drink, but if you believe even half of the stuff she's tweeted, then she'd be a raging alcoholic, and we all know she ain't that. She's very much in control when she's out and about. You never see her stumbling out of nightclubs on TMZ like other actresses often are seen doing. If she's getting drunk, she's doing it at home. The social media thing is nothing but a persona. People who are close to her say she has a kind heart, yet on social media she's always trying to act like she's all mean and jaded. She's not. It's an act.
ReplyDeleteI saw that Brittany Snow posted another pic of the two of them today. There is no reason to fake that at all. Especially when Pitch Perfect 3 hasn't even started filming and isn't due out for well over a year. There's no reason for them to do that now. Maybe like a month before the film comes out, sure, but why do it 15 months in advance? It makes no sense. Something might be going on between Anna and Rebel, but Anna and Brittany are friends. People need to let go of these crazy conspiracies.
A lot of conjecture in there. Anna never said she had problems in her personal life. The exact quote was that she was discontent at the moment and that she couldn't blame it on her career. You completely took that out of context. Being discontent does not mean one has problems. She didn't even know where it was coming from.
ReplyDeleteA lot of the PR she is doing now is because she has more free time. She'll be on a talk show in the UK later this month. If she was shooting PP3 she wouldn't have been able to do it, but now she can because she has the time. Not everything is set in stone months in advance. She's been doing extra PR for Trolls because her schedule freed up due to the delay.
Anna is on record as saying she wants to work harder to curate her choices. Meaning, get better roles. She is aware that most of the films she's been in lately have either bombed, or have been direct to VOD. PP2 was her only success in the last 2 years. She can't be a one trick pony. She needs another hit or she'll be in trouble. It doesn't necessarily have to be a box office hit, but at least something critically acclaimed. The Accountant looks promising, so maybe that could help. Whatever the case, she needs to avoid crappy indie flicks and low brow comedies for the time being and get her career back on track. I think most people would agree with that.
See, you're showing you don't understand how PR works in Hollywood. She signed on to do Trolls a couple years ago. She would have to do that press in the UK, because she signed her PP3 contract after the Trolls one & since she's a lead in the movie, they would want her doing as much press as possible. PP3 would have had to move around her schedule with Trolls & any other movies she signed on for before signing on for the 3rd Pitch Perfect. Your understanding of PR on movies is way off. She's got free time so she's doing all the PR? No. They would have to pay her more money if she's doing more press then she was originally contracted to do. She originally signed on for Trolls a few years ago, so all of this press is part of her contract.
ReplyDeleteYou're talking about conjecture with me? You're the one saying she's got free time so that's why she's doing press for movies, even though there's nothing about that anywhere. I haven't heard an interview with her where she's said "I've got a lot of free time so I decided to do more press on these movies." It's all in the contracts. All of it is in the contract & if they want her to do more than is in the contract they're going to have to pay her more. But since the 2 movies that took the most time this year for PR are big studio movies (Mike & Dave is Fox & Trolls is Dreamworks/Comcast Universal,) those all have the PR in the contract. Those movies also had a big ad budget, which means more PR.
Your last point about Anna being on record talking about curating, which interview is that in? I can't find the interview that I was originally talking about now, but I don't remember her talking about curating her choices, but there's a lot of different interviews with her & I could have missed her saying this in 1 of them. I'd like to see it or read it if you happen to remember where she said that. When she does an interview saying her career isn't the thing she can blame her discontent on I think she's being pretty clear that her discontent isn't based off of the quality of the movies she's doing. She's also talked about not having time for her personal relationships in many different interviews over the years. She's open about not being good at calling people & how she "ghost" people all the time, so she's being pretty open about her personal relationships with friends & family needing to be improved.
I think RandomGuy was originally the 1 to say that it's odd that these appearances pop up right after blind items & different stories on other gossip sites & in gossip magazines are coming out. There's blinds about feuding between the cast & there's been stories that don't make it a blind that flat out say there's feuding. So I think RandomGuy thinks the reason they're doing this 15 months in advance is to try & counter the gossip & different stories about feuding between the cast members. I might be wrong, but I think that's what he's saying.
ReplyDeleteI was definitely implying that. I mean a big part of the movie franchise is the "friendship of oddballs" theme. So quelling these rumors would be something I think the PR team would get on top of.
ReplyDeletePoe I'm thinking about it & I don't really know what the heck we're arguing about anymore. I think we're just going in circles. I don't see us agreeing on this at all.
ReplyDeleteJust curious Samey, how do you know she's the sort that compensates or is "just talk"?
ReplyDeleteAre you just applying social/psyche dynamics or claiming 1st or 2cd hand knowledge?
I disagree on the PR thing. There are times when an actor simply can't do PR for a film because they're working on another project. I'm not saying this is always the case, but sometimes it happens. PP3 people don't care about Trolls, they make their schedule and expect their cast to abide by it. There are some exceptions made, but not to the extent that it would disrupt the schedule. One example is Ryan Gosling recently not attending the world premiere for La La Land at the Venice Film Festival because he was filming Blade Runner 2. Do you think the creators of BR2 cared about him promoting another movie? Nope. They're paying him to work for them, not to promote other movies. Yes, some studios will be more generous and allow an actor a day or two to quickly skip out of town to do something else, but they won't mess with their schedules too much. Productions always have extremely tight schedules they need to make. You think PP3 are paying Anna 6 million to go off to the UK for a week to promote Trolls when they have a tight deadline? Not a chance. If PP3 had begun in September there's no way she'd be going to the UK. That's all I'm saying.
ReplyDeleteI think what you're saying is, what if she has stuff already planned, that's a little different. In that case, I guess it depends on what it is. She might cancel, reschedule, or still do it depending on time. But this UK talk show she's going on wasn't planned months in advance. It was just setup this past week. Anna's schedule is more open so she can do it. If she was shooting a film in the US she wouldn't. You're assuming all PR is set months in advance. That isn't true. I know for a fact that talk shows do not have guest lists set up that far ahead. Few weeks perhaps, but not months. Anyhoo, it's a silly argument.
I don't remember which interview it was, it was promoting M&DNWD. I'll have a look and see if I can dig it up.
My brother is an agent, that's how I know about the PR "thing." You're just flat out wrong. The PP3 people do care about Trolls because she signed a contract with them & as part of that contract has it in her contract how much PR she has to do. Studios will try to move things to fit with schedules, but they're not canceling PR appearences completely, they're just moving those appereances to other dates. BUT if there's a date set in stone or they want the leads to appear together & the other lead has something that conflicts with a filming day for PP3 the Trolls people won't be able to work around her PP3 schedule & PP3 people wouldn't be able to have Anna that day because she signed on for Trolls before PP3. That's how it works. If the movie is for a studio that doesn't get along with another studio then they won't try to work around the schedules at all because the actor signed on for their movie 1st, so they come 1st. It doesn't matter if Anna doesn't want to do it, she would be in breach of contract if she didn't make the PR appearances she's contracted to do.
ReplyDeleteAnd no, the UK appearance wasn't set up this week. It was ANNOUNCED this week, but those things are set up months in advance. Just like all US talk shows, UK talk shows have people scheduled a month or more in advance. The only time this isn't true is if there was a cancellation at the last minute & they needed someone, but in those situations the talk shows usually have their "go to" guest that they know are usually close by & willing to do the show at the last minute. The UK talk show appearance is also worked around Justin's schedule. He's got a concert he's doing in the UK on Oct. 3rd. That concert was set up a long time ago, so the Trolls PR had to be setup around it.
La La Land isn't a good example because one, Ryan was already in negotiations for Blade Runner BEFORE he was cast in La La Land. He was in negotiations for Blade Runner as far back as March of 2015. La La Land was casting months later. The other reason it's a bad example is that Summit isn't a big studio. They wouldn't be able to dictate the schedule like Blade Runner would be able to as the bigger studio. The problem for Anna & the reason the Pitch Perfect 3 people wouldn't be able to dictate her PR for Trolls is that Dreamworks was purchased by the same company that does Pitch Perfect. They want Trolls to be a huge success, because if it's not it won't look good to investors since they just purchased the company expecting it to immediately help the bottom line of Comcast Universal.
If Pitch Perfect 3 had set their filming schedule up in advance, before Dreamworks was purchased by Comcast Universal they probably would've been able to say "It'll cost money to switch the filming days," & Comcast would likely change the PR schedule to accommodate. But that's not what's happened. PP3 didn't set up their filming schedule in advance because they got their new director a month ago, so Trolls comes 1st for Anna now. With no filming schedule set Comcast would be setting up the filming schedule for PP3 around the PR for Trolls since that's already been set up.
A lot of what you said there were things I said myself, and things I agree with. The one thing I objected to was that everything PR related was setup months in advance. Some things are, and some are not. A friend of mine worked briefly for Conan years ago and I used to bug him to tell me when certain celebs would be on, and they do not schedule that months in advance. Usually it's 3-4 weeks. And I'm taking hard dates, not someone saying, yeah we'll have you on when that movie comes out.
ReplyDeleteThe point I initially made was, with Anna currently not filming anything she's able to extra stuff for Trolls. Yes, she had things that were already scheduled, but she can also now tell the studio, "hey, I'm not currently doing anything right now like I originally had been so maybe I can do a little extra for the film?" Which is true. And make no mistake about it, this delay is frustrating a lot of the cast right now.
You are giving this site way too much credit. This isn't TMZ. The average person has no idea CDAN even exists. This isn't mainstream. This is a fringe site. And the extreme few that even know this place exists, even fewer take what's posted here seriously. There's no need to quell rumors that 99.9% of the Pitch Perfect fanbase don't even know about to begin with.
ReplyDeleteYou ask why this happened now? Because it's a Halloween event that just opened. Anna and Britt have mutual friends who own creepLA, and it's a tradition which they attend every fall. They were there together last year, and you'll probably see them do it again next year assuming they aren't working. So this idea of them only making this appearance together to quell rumors is ludicrous when it's something they do together at this time every year. This was likely something they both had planned long before that silly little blind got posted.
Hey Samey,
ReplyDeleteNot discounting what you said and the first couple of times I saw PP or Kendrick blinds I would have definitely chalked up the sudden photo ops that disproved blinds to that. But then it just starts to look a bit weird. You're likely right and it's likely nothing but it sure does look weird over the past year or so.
Anyway, still waiting to see your answer to my question below ;)
The biggest problem with thinking she's doing extra PR for Trolls because she has free time is that everything I've seen her do for the movie also involves Justin Timberlake. They're the 2 leads, they're the 2 they want doing the majority of the PR. Other than a few tweets with links to trailers the rest of the cast hasn't really done anything for the movie yet. Their whole PR campaign is based around Anna & Justin. They haven't had them do anything separate, so I don't think all this press is because she's told them she's free. It's all stuff built around the 2 of them doing press together. Justin's got other commitments & doesn't have nearly as open a schedule as she's had. He's had to find time to rehearse for his concert, he's had to do the music for the movie, & he's working on a Woody Allen movie.
ReplyDeleteThe Accountant is the movie where you might be able to have an argument depending on how much PR she ends up doing for the movie. That's a major studio film & the PR for it is going to be around the time Pitch Perfect 3 is going to film, (I mean it's got to start sometime in the next couple months, right?) If they have her doing a lot of press for it I would expect that to be because she has free time. She's not a lead in the movie & from what I've been seeing I don't think she's in the movie a ton, so someone in a supporting role doing a bunch of press would be a little strange. If Anna ends up doing a large amount of press for that movie I could see that being because she told them she's got more free time than she expected to have.
Your friend at Conan doesn't represent the other late night talk shows. I live with my brother & he knows I've been arguing with someone online about this & he said major studios that have massive PR budgets like Trolls are setting stuff up a couple of months in advance with specific dates & they are in contact about a movie coming out in a year, but like you said those aren't specific dates. It's just a "Avengers 3 is coming out next year & we're looking at late April for the big PR push." But specific dates are scheduled in advance.
The thing is, Anna hasn't done a ton of late night talk show appearances. She's done a couple, but the majority of her press stuff has been press events where entertainment reporters from around the country & the world interview the cast members. She's done a lot of those with Justin & she did a lot of those for Mike & Dave. Those are set up far in advance because it involves reporters setting up travel plans & making sure the actors have a day or 2 completely free to be interviewed from early in the morning to late at night. Those are the types of things Anna's been doing more than anything that I've seen. I don't see everything she does, but I've been seeing a lot of stuff showing her at press events, & those are things set up way ahead of time.
I forgot to say, I agree that the cast is probably very frustrated. How could they not be? I just don't think Anna believes they're holding back her career in some way. She talked a lot about wanting to take some time off & with the movie not filming, she's had more time. Even with all the PR she's done a lot of it was done in LA, so at the end of the day she still gets to go home & sleep in her own bed. She gets to have dinner with her boyfriend or go meet friends someplace. If she really wanted some time off she's getting it, so why would she be as upset at the producers as you think she is? She's getting what she's talked about wanting many times over this past year.
ReplyDeleteThey weren't at last years event together. They went different nights. I remember that because I follow some Bechloe Instagram accounts & they were really sad about them not going together last year. I don't know if anyone pays attention to this site, but this is far from the only site that's talked about feuding between the cast. As I said in another comment, there are magazines & web sites that haven't been talking about this as blind items. They've been writing stories naming names & flat out saying there's feuding. They've had stories about Anna being difficult to work with & how she got Elizabeth Banks to quit & how many of the cast members are mad at her for it.
ReplyDeleteSure some of that is on fringe sites, but it's also been in some very popular gossip magazines & on some popular sites. I didn't come to this site until a month ago. The only reason I know about old blinds on here is searching & reading some other comments from people on blinds. But, I already knew about the feuding because it was reported on several different sites that aren't fringe sites like this. I'm just giving you another prospective on this, but I don't know if this site is the only reason for them getting together for a photo op. They could have done what they did last year & gone on different nights since it runs every night during the weekend. Or they could have gone at different times during the opening night since it has different start times.
It could also be that the amount of average fans that know about this site doesn't matter to them, but what matters is that industry people come on here. My brother is an agent & the only reason I know about this site is because he said a very large amount of the industry pay attention to what's being posted on here. Some of it is legal reasons, but other reasons are that while this site might not have a lot of visitors many of the things Enty posts are run again in other, more popular places. I still see a level of fake-ness in the pictures. I know you don't, but that's not really something I can put into words, so I know we won't agree about that.
Yep,
ReplyDeleteAsk you brother if the industry insiders have heard these rumors from inside the industry instead of these sites! I know Rory mentioned that Snow/Kendrick had a falling out (although he made it sound nowhere as bad as the blinds and gossip). Just curious if the industry is talking about this as well.
He said he's heard people talk about the stories about her maybe getting Elizabeth Banks fired & he's heard a few people talk about the feuding between Rebel & Anna. He said most of what he's heard people talk about involves people wondering if Anna is difficult to work with. That's not good for her career if more people start talking about that. All it would take is a few people that worked with her coming out saying she's difficult to work with & everybody would be talking about it from the sound of things.
ReplyDeleteI think my comment makes it sound like she's difficult to work with. It's just people talking about the stories & wondering if they're true. It doesn't matter if it is true, because if a couple of people with an axe to grind come out talking about how she's difficult, that would be all it would take for people in the industry to think about her differently.
ReplyDeleteMy brother doesn't have any personal interactions with her. He does have a few clients that worked with her & he said they didn't have any complaints about her for what it's worth.
I'm pretty sure they did attend one night together last year. I know they both went more than once because they have mutual friends who run it. They hang out together a lot more than you know. Just because you don't see pictures of them together all the time does not mean they aren't still seeing each other.
ReplyDeleteI'm aware that some other gossip sites have reported the Anna/Rebel feud. The rumors stem from comments Rebel made about the cast during Pitch Perfect 2. It was also implied that the cast were very upset and angry at Rebel, not Anna. There have never been any rumors about Anna being difficult to work with. Aside from that one particular Rebel article which would likely just be her PR team trying to defame Anna.
But that's not what this is about. This is a blind about there being some feud between Kendrick and Camp, Austin and Snow. And there's no basis for any of that. It's as simple as someone seeing the wedding photos and saying, why isn't Kendrick there? And then immediately jumping to conclusions and assuming there's been a fight. That's how gossip works. They create something out of nothing. I've seen other sites report on the Banks/Wilson/Kendrick thing, but not one has ever said anything about Camp/Austin/Snow all feuding with Kendrick. Stop believing this trash. Nobody is doing something solely because of a silly little blind on CDAN.
I know a couple people who know Anna fairly well. I'll leave it at that.
ReplyDeleteSay no more, say no more.
ReplyDeleteOr Samey should go check out Kendrick Stalker #2 over on Twitter have another one of their epic meltdowns because her BF is "evil" and she doesn't appreciate the security services they provide. Holy crap does this person need some time with a mental health professional.
ReplyDeleteTwo fake usernames down...one melting down...
I would feel bad for AK but I prefer to stick my head in the sand and hope she has zero idea about the crazy Twitter stalkers
A lot of what you said there I said myself and agree with. I think we're going in circles now essentially saying (mostly) the same things just in a convoluted way.
ReplyDeleteI agree. It was nice having this conversation with you though, but like you said I think we agree about most of this, there's just some details we don't agree on. If the movie has another delay it's really going to be interesting to see what happens.
ReplyDeleteThere are absolutely stories about Anna being difficult. Right after Pitch Perfect 2 came out there were stories about her making crazy demands & how she's changed by the films success. The Anna/Rebel/Banks thing was basically 2 stories in 1. There was the part about Rebel & Anna feuding & how Anna thinks Rebel bullies her, then there was the part about how Anna may have forced out Elizabeth as director. When I commented about my brother I said it doesn't matter if it's true or not, because people are talking about it, & I think it's obvious there's someone with an axe to grind with Anna.
ReplyDeletePretty recently there were a few stories that came out about her. 1 is about her possibly being the reason Justin Timberlake is getting a divorce, (Not true according to Gossip Cop & anyone that's capable of thinking,) & there was a story about Gwen Stefani hating Anna because of something that happened in the studio when they were recording for Trolls. There's also been variations on the stories about Anna possibly forcing Banks out too. I think it was that Rory guy that talked about how there's some people that spread gossip about people to make them look bad & make themselves look like a better person to work with. My brother's said the same thing, so I bet that's where these gossip stories about Anna being a pain come from. Could be someone from the cast or it could be someone that's always up for parts opposite Anna. Or it's someone that she pissed off.
Forgot to add that last year I only saw pics of Anna from one night. Kelly & Brittany went the night after Anna went. If they went another night there's zero pics from when they were there a 2nd time. What I really want to say is that my thoughts on Brittany & Anna's relationship isn't based off of this blind.
ReplyDeleteI know most of what's on here is bull. I'm basing my thoughts off of other things they've said in interviews & things I've heard from people that work in movies that I've met through my brother. They didn't work on the Pitch Perfect movies, but they have worked with cast members from the movies on other projects. I know we disagree about the pics & I can't put into words what I'm seeing in them, but that's a small part of where I'm getting my opinion from.
Mostly I just want it known that gossip sites are only a small part of where I'm getting my opinion from & I'm really only going off of the sites that report stories & don't do blinds. You can never trust a blind item, especially on a site like this that allows anyone to send a blind in.
You had to say something. A couple of the super fringe "we're legit news sources but really not" sites are already onto the: Kendrick is out and being replaced by Vanessa H or Lea Michel crap.
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It doesn't matter where it comes from, fake gossip is still fake gossip. If it ever makes Entertainment Tonight then I'll raise an eyebrow. But a bunch of fringe clickbait internet sites can never be taken seriously. Anyone with a brain knows CDAN is 99.9% rubbish, but so are those other sites. It's all tabloid trash. Clickbait at it's worst. I've never heard one legit source ever say that Anna is difficult to work with. Quite the opposite. Anna herself debunked the Gwen thing, that was hilarious how wrong that rumor was. There are a lot of weird, crazy rumors surrounding Pitch Perfect because the fanbase is fucking nuts. It's a bunch of hyper-insane teenage girls. If you've been on social media, you'll know what I mean. They make up the craziest things and have fights with each other over which fake-romances should be cannon. Outside of the PP madness, Anna has a great reputation for being a hard worker and good co-star. She's been nominated for an Oscar and Tony award, so I don't think having success with a teen flick has changed her. She's actually been trying to get out of that franchise for years. They just threw enough money at her that she couldn't say no.
ReplyDeleteLike I said, just because you don't always see photos of her and Brittany out together, doesn't mean they aren't still friends. I can tell you as someone who knows people that knows them both very well, that they do still occasionally hang out. And I can tell you with 100% certainty that there is no rift between them.
But between her and Camp on the other hand...that shit has gotten downright nasty!
ReplyDelete(completely just messing with you because I'm bored at work)
But if you didn't catch my comment above, the way-out-in-the-ether sites are trying to start clickbait that Kendrick is now officially out and either Vanessa Hudgens or Lea Michelle are replacing her "based on reports". (gamenguide)
I think once they start production this crap will die down. Then of course we'll have the rumors begin about how AK and BS are dumping their boyfriends for each other. And the ones how the cast buried some crewmember in an unmarked grave for talking on CDAN (alas, poor Rory. I knew him Samey)
I didn't see that. Officially out? Hmm... well I guess we should start hearing about it everywhere then very soon? ( that's sarcasm)
ReplyDeleteI really hope they start filming soon because these rumors are just getting ridiculous.
It's not just fringe sites talking about it. Now I don't think the National Enqurier or Star Magazine are legit, but to call them "fringe" isn't accurate at all. Radar online also had a story about her being difficult & I'm pretty sure E Online also had a link to the story on the fringe sites. That's the real problem by the way. Even though the fringe site starts a rumor, when a more well known site runs a story linking to that original story it makes it look legitimate, & it makes people think that E Online is reporting the story & not just linking to it. I see that happening a lot too.
ReplyDeleteMy hope is that everyone recognizes that these stories are almost always BS. It's too bad that more than a few people are going to think it's true & start assuming Anna's difficult. My brother talked about how people in Hollywood are talking about if she got Elizabeth fired, so even if we think it's obviously fake some people in the business believe there's something to the stories.
I'm glad to hear that Brittany & Anna don't have a rift between them. I don't know them or ever met them. The people I know that worked with cast members from the movie did say that some of the cast were acting different during filming on PP2, but that's a friend of a friend heard this, so if you've got more direct knowledge I'm glad to hear they're all ok.
I'm sorry!!!! :) Do people really think that if an a-list, Oscar & Tony nominated actress dropped out of a film they expect big things from, that they would replace her with actresses that are not nearly as famous or successful? They might as well not even make the movie at that point. If there's no chance of Bechloe in the 3rd movie they will lose a lot of fans & the movie won't make as much as the 2nd.
ReplyDeleteIf they're going to spread rumors like this, they better choose more believable names as replacements!
Given the source, I think they are just trying to drive up ad revenue. They are barely known (but google news still indexes them) and seem to pull this stuff out of nowhere.
ReplyDeleteThere were some spelling & grammar errors that made me think it might be a translation from another site from another country. Or they're just really bad at their job! :)
ReplyDeleteI think most people are intelligent enough to realize gossip is just that, gossip. Most people don't take it too seriously. A studio won't hire someone based solely off of some unsubstantiated rumors they heard, they would want facts to back it up.
ReplyDeleteChristian Bale is notorious for being difficult to work with, and yet he continues to work. I think unless you pull a Mel Gibson and get caught saying homophobic or racial slurs, you're pretty much guaranteed to continue working as long as you have the talent. But again, I don't think Anna has anything to worry about because there are numerous directors and co-stars that she's worked with who speak highly of her. Aside from these crazy PP rumors and that one Stefani rumor that got debunked by Gossip Cop, I haven't heard anything negative about her.
I'm afraid to look up the stalker's account. I don't need that kind of crazy in my life! :) She might know about it, but she might have read a few tweets, muted him on Twitter (not blocked, so they could still read her tweets & think she can see theirs,) & doesn't pay attention to anything they tweet. That would be what I would do if I were famous & had a stalker like that. I hope that's what she did, because if she's reading tweets from stalkers it's going to change her. I mean how could it not change a person?
ReplyDeleteShe's very famous & open on Twitter, so she's probably getting a lot of weird stuff. Unless this person is sending her stuff in the mail or showing up at her house, I can't think of any reason she would bother herself with someone with an anonymous Twitter account. In other blinds you commented about how long this has been going on. I can't see how she would know about this person, read all the tweets they send & not have Twitter help track the person down or have the accounts closed. I bet she saw them early on, muted the account & she hasn't read a tweet from them since.
I should have said in my last comment that it does seem the rumors about her being difficult are all based around Pitch Perfect. There was a rumor about her sleeping with Ben Affleck from The Accountant, (that I don't think anyone believed,) but I don't think any of the rumors about her being difficult were from the sets of other movies. The Gwen Stefani thing wasn't really about Anna being difficult, it was about her being annoying, & how Gwen doesn't like her. The gossip about Anna making demands for a private plane & all that has been based around Pitch Perfect from what I've read.
ReplyDeleteThe rumors could be completely made up, but the fact that some outlets run the story & don't do it as a blind means they have a source of some kind that gave them that gossip. It might only be someone from catering or a boom mic operator, but it also could be another actress, or a producer, but I don't think higher up people would spread gossip to random gossip sites like that. It's probably a lower level person that Anna didn't kiss the ass of & now they're getting their revenge.