User blog comment:HiccstridFan92/Handling Spoilers for the Third Film/@comment-27624304-20180524233558/@comment-31135394-20180525012632

Regarding your first paragraph, I wonder the exact same thing. It doesn't make sense that it's releasing in other countries before it does in its country of origin (the US). And it doesn't make sense that there's SO many different release dates. I know it's common for a movie to have different release dates for different countries, but I don't recall there ever being more than two, maybe three. But there was a post in Discussions a few months back about it and there must have been 7 or 8 different dates; many as early as January. It may not be of any importance, but I think they were all European countries. From what I understand, Asia and AU/NZ have the same release date we do. Of what I can look up quickly, Turkey has the date of January 25, France has the date of February 6, and the UK also has a February release set.

I wonder if the merge with Universal has anything to do with this. But I don't recall ANY movie having so many release dates, Universal owned or not. Does anyone else? That's why I'm suspicious that the countries in question simply haven't bothered to double check their release dates for HTTYD3 yet. So there's a chance they might all change to March 1 too eventually. And I really, REALLY hope they do!