Anna Kendrick is part of the cast tied to Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which marked 16 years since its wide release in the United States and Canada on August 13, 2010. The film arrived with a $60 million budget behind it, then spent years becoming more valuable in the market of audience memory than it ever was in theaters.
August 13, 2010
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was widely released in the United States and Canada on August 13, 2010, with Edgar Wright directing from the six graphic novels Bryan Lee O'Malley released between August 2004 and July 2010. The cast list ran through Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Anna Kendrick, Brie Larson, Alison Pill, Brandon Routh, and Jason Schwartzman.
IMDb puts the film's worldwide box office at $51,825,248 against that $60 million budget. On the original release math, the gap is about $8.2 million before marketing, which is why the film's later reputation is so much stronger than its opening life on paper.
From flop to cult classic
The reversal is the point. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World did not begin as a commercial win, yet it later built the kind of fan base that turns a weak theatrical run into a long-tail asset for cast recognition, library value, and periodic reappraisal.
That reappraisal has been public and repeated. Collider ranked Scott Pilgrim vs. the World at No. 14 on its September 2025 list of the Greatest Comic Book Movies of All Time, while The Mary Sue called it One of the Best Comic Book Movies Ever Made in 2020. NME called Scott Pilgrim vs. the World the best comic book movie.
Anna Kendrick and the ensemble
Anna Kendrick matters here because the film's staying power rests on ensemble recall as much as on Wright's direction or O'Malley's source material. Kendrick is listed with eight other cast members in a movie that has outlived its initial box-office math, and that is usually how cult films work: the cast becomes a reference point after the receipts stop being the main story.
For Fans of Scott Pilgrim, the useful takeaway is simple. The anniversary does not add a sequel or a new release, but it does mark a film whose commercial start and later reputation point in opposite directions. Which specific role Anna Kendrick played in the film is not stated in the source, but her name remains part of the ensemble that kept the movie in circulation long after August 13, 2010.
