‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Whacks ‘Mad Max’ With $4.6 Million at Thursday Box Office What’s your Reaction? +1 0 +1 0 +1 0 +1 0 +1 0 Facebook Twitter Email The musical comedy sequel gets early edge as George Miller’s action epic rolls to $3.7 million. Rebel Wilson, Anna Kendrick and “Pitch Perfect 2” are hitting high notes already, taking in $4.6 million at the box office from Thursday night screenings, while Tom Hardy and “Mad Max: Fury Road” rolled to a muscular $3.7 million. Both were impressive in the opening round of one of summer’s most intriguing box office battles, in which two of the season’s most anticipated films are expected to bring in around $40 million and try to take the top spot from “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Disney’s Marvel superhero sequel has won the last two weekends, and on Friday became the year’s second film to hit $1 billion in global grosses, following “Fast and Furious 7.” The Barden Belles, the all-female a cappella group at the heart of “Pitch Perfect 2,” belted out their big opening number on 2,652 screens beginning at 7 p.m. By Friday, Universal will have the PG-13-rated musical comedy, which marks the directing debut of Elizabeth Banks and was written by Kay Cannon, in 3,473 theaters. Get the Look: Brittany Snow in Pitch Perfect 2 by polyvore-editorial featuring guess sandals