'Pitch Perfect 3' Release Date Pushed Up to July 2017
The Barden Bellas in ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ (Photo: Richard Cartwright/Universal Pictures via AP)
By Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter
Pitch Perfect 3 is getting a (slight) date change from Universal.
Originally slated to open Aug. 4, 2017, the Elizabeth Banks-directed a cappella film will now hit theaters on July 21, 2017.
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On its original August date, the aca-centric comedy was set to open opposite Ridley Scott’s next Alien film, Alien: Covenant.
Now it will open opposite Christopher Nolan’s WWII drama — and potential Harry Styles starrer— Dunkirk and the comic book adaptation Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
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Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson will return to star in the third installment of the musical franchise, which already has a global gross of $402 million from 2012’s Pitch Perfect and 2015's Pitch Perfect 2.
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