Pitch Perfect 3 to be directed by Step Up All In helmer, Trish Sie

Grammy award-winning Sie has only directed one film so far in her career which was 2014’s Step Up All In, the fifth installment of the dance-themed franchise.

Step Up All In helmer Trish Sie will now head the upcoming comedy Pitch Perfect 3 after Elizabeth Banks left the director’s chair.

The Barden Bellas will be back with a new director.

Producers Paul Brooks, Max Handelman and Banks, who launched an immediate hunt for a replacement, finalised Sie after the franchise’s first installment helmer, Jason Moore, also declined the project due to unavailability, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Pitch Perfect 3 which was earlier expected to release on July 21, 2017 will now hit the theatres on December 22 next year.

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