With Monday's grosses, Universal Pictures and Gold Circle Entertainment's Pitch Perfect franchise crossed $500 million at the worldwide box office. The third installment in the series will cross $100 million at the global box office today in its first 12 days of release, with 70% of that coming from U.S./Canada. The…

New Year’s Day update: In updated figures this morning, Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi will own New Year’s weekend with $68.3M over four days, despite Sony’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle coming on strong with $66.5M. The sequel that Sony originally projected would make $45M over its first six days has…

Tuesday AM update: We’ll have finals later in the day, but according to industry estimates this morning, Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi is coming in with much less cash than anticipated from what was projected yesterday. Granted, the entire weekend was a hard one for analysts to call with Christmas Eve on…

UPDATE, Tuesday AM writethru with Disney actuals: Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi knighted another $76.1 million at the international box office this weekend, coming in slightly ahead of Sunday projections and raising the overseas cume to $381.2M. Factoring in the domestic FSS, the global total is $749.5M…

This year’s upsides at the domestic box office won’t be enough to offset the summer and October shortfalls, which will likely leave 2017 short of surpassing last year’s $11.4 billion record. Yes, even with Star Wars: The Last Jedi on marquees. Even though the Thanksgiving five-day stretch at $270.4 million was the…

“We don’t do anything with dignity, okay?” Rebel Wilson’s “Fat Amy” (her ball cap reads “Make America Eat Again”) says in this first trailer for Pitch Perfect 3, and fans wouldn’t expect otherwise. Having graduated from college and finding the non-singing world a depressing place – service jobs and bull-tending…

EXCLUSIVE: Andy Allo, who was originally discovered by Prince with whom she toured before his death, is booking a role in Universal Pictures’ franchise Pitch Perfect 3. She will play Charity, part of the group Dew, the rival band of the Belles. (Prince also produced Allo’s second album Superconducter). Pitch Perfect 3…

Universal Pictures and Gold Circle Entertainment have found their new lead singer, as Step Up All In‘s Trish Sie has signed on to direct Pitch Perfect 3, set to hit theaters December 22, 2017. Sie takes over from Elizabeth Banks, who directed 2015’s Pitch Perfect 2 that saw the highest grossing opening weekend ever…

Elizabeth Banks said today that she exited as director of Universal’s Pitch Perfect 3 because delayed shooting – the film is now set for a Christmas 2017 instead of Summer 2017 release – would interfere with her duties as a parent. “We’ve been in development and it’s taking longer than we thought,” said the actress, Pi…

Elizabeth Banks, who had been attached to direct Universal’s Pitch Perfect 3, now will not be helming the third pic in the lucrative franchise. She will remain aboard as a producer and a co-star, as she has for the previous pics. The new movie was meant to shoot over the summer, and sources tell Deadline that Uni and…

Twenty-two days after changing the release date on Pitch Perfect 3 back to July 21, 2017, Universal now is moving the film to the Christmas 2017 time frame with a launch on December 22. They wanna make sure they date this threequel right. When the follow-up to the $287.5M surprise hit of last summer was announced,…

Universal Pictures has moved the third installment of its Pitch Perfect franchise up by a few weeks from August 4, 2017, to July 21. That moves Pitch Perfect 3 off the Alien: Convenant date that it shared with 20th Century Fox and it now sits on the same date as the kid-friendly Ferdinand (also from Fox), the Tom…