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"Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip" will hit U.S. theaters earlier as 20th Century Fox has decided to move up the release date of the movie by five days to December 18. The fourth installment of "Alvin and the Chipmunks" movie franchise, which was set to open on December 23, will now face off against "Star Wars: The Force Awakens".

The reason for the release date change is that the studio wants their movie to hit theaters several days earlier, so they can take advantage of the school vacation for the end-year holidays. Although the reason makes sense, people speculated that it's just an alibi to conceal the real reason.

Fox will release the Chipmunks movie on the same day as the seventh episode of "Star Wars" movie franchise reportedly because they wanted to destroy the blockbuster franchise. They became really angry since they were no longer being the distributor of the new "Star Wars" movies.

"The Road Chip" stars Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Bella Thorne and Jesse McCartney. It follows the three Chipmunks on their trip to New York City to stop their father figure Dave from proposing to his new girlfriend. Walt Becker is directing with the script written by Adam Sztkiel.

Another film set to open nationwide on December 18 is "Sisters", Universal's comedy starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.