Pixar showed up to the Annecy International Animation Festival with the goods. Animation Studio announced a new film Slange for the summer of 2027, an original film called “Gatto” from “Luca” director Enrico Casarosa.
Pixar announced the movie from the Annecy scene on Friday and showed some concept art from the movie, which you can see above. “Gatto” returns Casarosa to Italy, but this time to Venice and follows a black cat called Nero who after years with maneuvering of the channel ride, superstitious city begins to question whether he has lived the right life. Nero is indebted to a local cat mobboss and is in a quell and is forced to create a truly unexpected friendship that can finally lead him to his purpose – unless Venice gets better by him first.
Casarosa directs the film, his follow -up to 2021’s Italian Riviera-Set “Luca,” And producer Andrea Warren is also again with Casarosa on the function. “Luca” was previously released directly to Disney+, so this should be a chance for Casarosa to stretch the legs in theaters.
Pixar also had some other announcements as part of his Annecy presentation. It showed first look at another original film called “Hoppers”, which is released in March 2026 and is an adventure about an animal lover who creates a robotic beaver and places her consciousness in it to live in the animal world. The film has Jon Hamm who leads the voice crew and is directed by Daniel Chong.
Pixar Chief Pete Docter also showed some Sneak Peek pictures and released a concept art image from “Toy Story 5“And also confirmed that Joan Cusack would return to the franchise like Jessie. Tim Allen recently teased that Jessie was a big part of the action in the new movieWhich also involves the toys competing for attention with screens and video games. And finally, Pixar showed 27 minutes of his upcoming function “Elio”, which opens in theaters later this month.
Before Pixar took the stage, Disney was also at hand on Annecy with his own pictures from “Zootopia 2“Who confirmed that French actor Jean Reno also made a como performance in the sequel as an officer with Zootopia Police Department. Other new characters in” Zootopia 2 “include Gary de’snake (Voice of Ke Huy Quan), Nibbles (Fortune Feimster) and Dr. Fuzzby (Voice of Quinta Brunson). Finally, Disney Animation Chief Creative Officer Jared Bush announced that the legendary director Ron Clements would return to Disney in a special advisory role.
