Universal Pictures | 2017 Movie Releases

The Post (2017)

February 5, 2018July 5, 2019

When American military analyst, Daniel Ellsberg, realizes to his disgust the depths of the US government’s deceptions about the futility of the Vietnam War, he takes action by copying top-secret documents that would become the Pentagon Papers. Later, Washington Post owner, Kay Graham, is still adjusting to taking over her late husband’s business when editor Ben Bradlee discovers the New York Times has scooped them with an explosive expose on those papers.

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Phantom Thread (2017)

February 5, 2018October 4, 2023

Phantom Thread storyline. Set in 1950s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock isat the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants.

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Pitch Perfect 3 (2017)

February 5, 2018July 6, 2019

Three years after the events of Pitch Perfect 2, the Bellas have graduated college, but have jobs which they all hate. Desperate to see each other again to sing once more, Beca (Anna Kendrick), Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson), Chloe (Brittany Snow), Aubrey (Anna Camp), Lilly (Hana Mae Lee), Stacie (Alexis Knapp), Cynthia (Ester Dean), Florencia (Chrissie Fit), Jessica (Kelley Jakle), and Ashley (Shelley Regner) are all thrilled to learn that Emily (Hailee Steinfeld), now a senior at Barden and leader of the Barden Bellas, has seemingly asked for the Bellas to reunite at an event in New York Aquarium to sing with each other once more. Upon arriving at the reunion they are told that the reunion was not for the Bellas to sing together, but to watch Emily sing with the new Bellas.

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Thank You for Your Service (2017)

February 4, 2018July 6, 2019

After a harrowing 15-month combat experience in Iraq, the much-decorated Adam Schumann (Miles Teller) returns home to Kansas and a loving wife, Saskia (Haley Bennett). Adam and Saskia have two young children, a daughter and infant son born while Adam was still overseas.

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The Snowman (2017)

February 4, 2018July 6, 2019

The logic in beginning with “The Snowman” may be that it’s the most hookily lurid of Nesbø’s narratives, centered as it is on the hunt for what we are told is Norway’s first serial killer: a darkly whimsical maniac who’s kidnapping and carving up a variety of women in Oslo, Bergen and beyond, leaving a stern-faced snowman at the scene of every crime.

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Happy Death Day (2017)

February 3, 2018July 6, 2019

After a night of hard-partying and heavy-drinking, the self-centred college student and sorority sister, Tree Gelbman, wakes up on the morning of her birthday with a serious hangover in the dorm of a guy she can’t recall his name. As Tree goes about her day, little does she know that everything that happens now or will happen during the course of the day, is a twisted déjà vu of a reality that repeats itself again and again, until her brutal murder at night by a masked madman.

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Victoria and Abdul (2017)

February 3, 2018July 6, 2019

Abdul Karim, a young prison clerk from Agra, India, is instructed to travel to England for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887 to present her with a mohur, a gold coin which has been minted as a token of appreciation from British-ruled India.

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Lady Bird (2017)

February 1, 2018July 6, 2019

Christine McPherson’s senior year of high school in 2002/03 is presented, she the second of two offspring of Larry and Marion McPherson. Outwardly, she hates most aspects of her life. She hates that they have long lived a life of barely scraping by, their situation all the worse now as they as a collective are a victim of the poor economy.

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Girls Trip (2017)

February 1, 2018July 6, 2019

Four lifelong friends (Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish) go on a trip to New Orleans for the Crescent City’s annual Essence Festival — where sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there’s enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.

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Despicable Me 3 (2017)

January 30, 2018July 7, 2019

Charlie joins his friends on a weekend trip to a remote cabin on the lake. They turn on the TV and discover hundreds of unnatural cloudlike clusters are hovering over Earth. The friends notice a similar eerie cloud floating high above their cabin. That night a beam of otherworldly light shoots down from the sky. They try to defend themselves, but aliens abduct a number of them and whisk them away to the mother ship.