Feb 15, 2014 11:47 AM EST
Brittany Snow To Star in 'Pitch Perfect 2', Returns with Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson

Brittany Snow has signed on to star in the "Pitch Perfect" sequel, reprising her role as Chloe, Deadline reported in an exclusive.

The "Hairspray" actress will join co-stars Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson, who will also reprise their respective roles in the film, which is slated for a May 15, 2015 release, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Elizabeth Banks, who was recently seen onscreen as Effie Trinket in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," will direct the sequel, while Kay Cannon will return to write the script.

Cannon earned her stripes writing and co-producing on NBC's "30 Rock" since the beginning of the show, which also featured Banks in a multiple season character arc.

Banks was earlier an executive producer on "Pitch Perfect." The 2012 comedy was an unexpected hit centering on The Bellas, an all-female a cappella college group. The film spawned a Billboard Hot 100 hit with "Cups," sung by Anna Kendrick as Beca.

Jezebel described "Pitch Perfect" as a "self-aware, edgy comedy" with "amazing a cappella arrangements."

Created with a modest $17 million production budget, "Pitch Perfect" brought in a $65 million domestic gross, according to Box Office Mojo.

The film even received approval from Rolling Stone's Peter Travers.

"This spoofy, sassy romp presents us with a cappella rivalry on the fictional campus of Barden U and hits an above-average share of hilarious high notes," Travers wrote in the 2012 review.

Of the lead, he wrote, "Kendrick is terrific, taking a role that could have slid by on snide and building it into something uniquely funny and touching."

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