WB Dates Pacific Rim, 300 Sequel and The Hangover Part III

Warner Bros. has updated their release calendar, shifting the release date of Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim and announcing new dates for 300: Battle of Artemisia (which is rumored to soon receive a new title) and The Hangover Part III.

Pacific Rim, originally slated for May 10, 2013, will be released on July 12, 2013, putting it up against Columbia Pictures' Grown Ups 2.

Starring Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Rinko Kikuchi, Max Martini, Willem Dafoe, Robert Kazinsky, Clifton Collins Jr., Diego Klattenhoff and Ron Perlman, Pacific Rim arrives from a science fiction treatment by Travis Beacham and sees a future Earth defending itself from attacking creatures.

The 300 sequel, directed by Noam Murro and slated to star Rodrigo Santoro, Eva Green, Sullivan Stapleton and Jamie Blackley, will hit theaters on August 2, 2013, opening opposite Columbia Pictures' Smurfs 2 and Dean Parisot's RED 2.

The Hangover Part III, meanwhile, is dated for May 24, 2013, a date currently held by 20th Century Fox's Leaf Men and Universal Pictures' Fast & Furious 6 as well.

UPDATE: Warner Bros. has sent out a press release to officially announce The Hangover Part III and is reiterating that it will be the final part of a trilogy.

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