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Upcoming movies from Walt Disney Animation: Head to space with Elio and return to Zootopia in 2025
The studio that brought you Frozen, Toy Story, and the Incredibles is bringing you... well, more of that. But there's other stuff on the way too
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Welcome to the Popcorn Prophet! Here we discuss all the upcoming movies from the world's most exciting studios, gathered in one place to foretell for your moviegoing future. Enjoy!
Steamboat Willie may be in the public domain, but his former masters are in no danger of losing the animation wars anytime soon. To keep up with everything that Disney is putting out in the cartoon department (departoon? We'll workshop it), Popverse has put together this list of every upcoming Disney animated film, and we've posted it below for you to check out.
But before we get into it, let's clarify something here at the jump: the animated movies we're talking about here are only going to be Walt Disney originals or a product of the partnership with Pixar. If you're looking for certain superhero or space opera movies, you're going to have to go elsewhere (and by elsewhere, we mean our upcoming Marvel and upcoming Star Wars lists).
All clear? OK, let's dive in.
Upcoming Walt Disney Animation movies with release dates
Disney Animation might look very different from what '90s and '00s kids grew up with, both in style and, maybe even more interestingly, in output. However, Disney's still plugging away on creating new stories using the animation medium, both as standalone projects and as sequels to recent IP the studio has found success in. Looking ahead, here are all the upcoming animated Disney movies with confirmed release dates:
| Title | Release Date |
|---|---|
| Elio | June 13, 2025 |
| Zootopia 2 | November 26, 2025 |
| Hoppers | March 6, 2026 |
| Toy Story 5 | June 19, 2026 |
| Ice Age 6 | December 18, 2026 |
| Untitled Pixar movie | June 18, 2027 |
| Frozen III | November 24, 2027 |
Upcoming Walt Disney Animation movies without release dates
But getting a release date isn't where a movie begins its journey, and for for a couple upcoming animated Disney projects, the relase date stage has yet to be reached. Fortunately, though, we know what at least a few of those movies are; listed here for your information and edification:
| Title | Release Date |
|---|---|
| The untitled Bluey movie | TBA |
| Incredibles 3 | TBA |
| Spooked | TBA |
Walt Disney Animation movies in development
And finally, there are a crop of movies that not only lack a release date, but technically still haven't been officially greenlit by the House of Mouse. Yes, the films you see below are in the developmental stage of filmic gestation (try coming up with a grosser term, I dare you), but that doesn't mean they're not worth including on this list. In no particular order, here they are:
| Title | Release Date |
|---|---|
| Frozen IV | Not yet greenlit |
| The untitled Family Guy movie | Not yet greenlit |
| Rio 3 | Not yet greenlit |
And with that, our upcoming Disney Animation list is complete. We'll be coming back to it every time a new movie is announced, so keep an eye right here for updates.
But before we leave you, here are a few of the biggest FAQs the internet seems to have about Disney's upcoming animated projects, along with out best attempts at answering them.
FAQ 1: What is the next Disney Animated movie to come out?
As you can see in the list above, Disney is teaming up with Pixar for its next animated special, a science fiction comedy called Elio. It's about the titular Elio, whose curiosity about life in outer space leads him to becoming a galactic ambassador for Earth. The film was announced all the way back at the 2022 D23 Expo, and will see Jameela Jamil, Brad Garrett, and Zoe Saldaña in the vocal cast.
Yes, Disney seems to be aware of the "cast Zoe Saldaña in a scifi" rule for Hollywood success, though she won't be playing an alien this go-round. Of course, we didn't see the Star Trek movies suffering for casting her in a human role.
FAQ 2: Will there be a Tangled 2?
Well, it depends on what you mean by "Tangled 2." Technically a sequel to Tangled already exists in the form of Tangled Ever After, a short film released in 2012 that saw Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi returning to their roles as Rapunzel and Flynn Rider, respectively. However, you're probably talking here about whether or not Tangled will get a big-screen sequel. And the answer to that, as of this writing, is no.
All the way back in 2015, Tangled producer Roy Conli told Den of Geek that directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard "weren’t really interested" in doing a sequel to their Rapunzel adaptation, also mentioning that "her hair was gone," admittedly a pretty good point. However, Deadline did announce in December of 2024 that Disney was working on a live-action adaptation of the movie...
Probably without Zachary Levi's involvement.
FAQ 3: Will there be a Moana 3?
Similarly, Moana will make her next big-screen appearance in live-action, as reported by Variety all the way back in 2023. However, even with a live-action adaptation on the way, Moana has a better chance of seeing an new animated chapter than does Tangled. Speaking with Screen Rant at the 2025 Golden Globes, Moana 2 co-director Dana Ledoux Miller had this to say:
"I think that the fact that so many people have come out to see this movie means that there's a lot of love for Moana. In a year and a half I have another film coming out, it's the live-action Moana, so there's a lot of Moana love to go around. And who knows what else is next."
Is it a confirmation of Moana 3? Absolutely not. Is it a positive sign for Moana fans? Possibly.
FAQ 4: What is the next new Pixar movie?
Again, the next Pixar movie is the aforementioned Elio, with Hoopers, Toy Story 5, and Incredibles 3 in line after that. Then, as you can see, there's an untitled Pixar film that's been set for release June 18, 2027. Unfortunately, there's next to nothing we can say about this mystery movie save for its date (which Variety reported in August 2024), however, we can speculate that this untited 2027 Pixar movie will not be a sequel.
Why? Because in May of 2024, Pixar president Jim Morris told Bloomberg that that the studio would release three movies every two years, with "every other title a sequel or spinoff and the rest standalone concepts or potential seeds for new franchises." Though some might call that a grim omen for original storytelling (me, I'm some), it does give us a hint at what's next for the studio. With Toy Story 5 and Incredibles 3 filling those IP spots in Pixar's future, it would make sense that the untiled film is a standalone.
Which is good news, right?
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