According to Billboard, Illumination and Universal Pictures officially announced this week that a sequel to the hit animated film SING is in the works and will hit theaters on Christmas Day, 2020. The 2016 musical comedy, featuring THE VOICE talents of Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton and Tori Kelly, grossed $429.8 million worldwide since it was released.
In addition, Universal announced that Illumination's THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2 will take a year longer to hit theaters than originally announced. The studio moved its opening from July 13, 2018, to July 3, 2019. In other news, Minions 2, which had been set for July 10, 2020, will now open in theaters on July 3, 2020.
About SING: Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, Sing stars Buster Moon (Academy Award® winner Matthew McConaughey), a dapper Koala who presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. Buster is an eternal optimist-okay, maybe a bit of a scoundrel-who loves his theater above all and will do anything to preserve it. Now facing the crumbling of his life's ambition, he has one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former GLORY by producing the world's greatest singing competition.
Five lead contestants emerge: A mouse (Seth MacFarlane) who croons as smoothly as he cons, a timid teenage elephant (Tori Kelly) with an enormous case of stage fright, an overtaxed mother (Academy Award® winner Reese Witherspoon) run ragged tending a litter of 25 piglets, a young gangster gorilla (Taron Egerton) looking to break free of his family's felonies, and a punk-rock porcupine (Scarlett Johansson) struggling to shed her arrogant boyfriend and go solo. Each animal arrives under Buster's marquee believing that this is their shot to change the course of their life.
Featuring more than 85 hit songs, Sing is written and directed by Garth Jennings (Son of Rambow, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy.
Watch the trailer for SING below:
