Pixar Animation Studios provided an unique first take a look at its hottest upcoming options — together with Hoopers and Toy Story 5 — and introduced a brand-new authentic manufacturing, Gatto, throughout a studio presentation on Friday on the Annecy worldwide animation movie competition as a part of a broader showcase that additionally included in depth footage from Pixar’s 2025 launch Elio.
Pixar chief inventive officer Pete Docter took the stage to current behind-the-scenes materials from Toy Story 5, revealing early footage and confirming the return of franchise veterans Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cussack. Directed by Andrew Stanton and McKenna Harris and produced by Jessica Choi, the fifth installment in Pixar’s flagship franchise is scheduled for launch on June 19, 2026.
Docter shared that the brand new movie will discover the challenges confronted by the toys in a digital-first world. It’s Toy meets Tech,” he mentioned, outlining the movie’s plot, which is able to see the unique motion pictures’ workforce of toys going through as much as the problem introduced by the brand new favourite plaything of their eight-year-old proprietor Bonnie Anderson: A tech pill referred to as Lillypad. Woody, Buzz and the remainder of the gang will confront a brand new era of youngsters extra enamored with screens than playthings.
Docter screened the world premiere of the movie’s opening scene, wherein a container filled with Buzz Lightyears awakens on an remoted desert island and struggled to reconnect with “star command.”
Toy Story 5 may even function Ernie Hudson voicing Fight Carl, taking up the position initially voiced by the late Carl Weathers. In honor of the franchise’s thirtieth anniversary, the Annecy viewers was additionally handled to archival footage from the making of the unique 1995 Toy Story, Pixar’s first full-length function.
Docter additionally introduced a brand-new animated function, the unique Gatto. The function, to be directed by Luca filmmaker Enrico Casarosa, follows Nero, a water-hating black cat dwelling within the picturesque metropolis of Venice, Italy, who befriends Maya, a lonely road musician. Docter gave a sneak peek on the first animated checks and character drawings for the film, which could have a way more painterly design than is typical of Pixar. Gatto is ready to premiere in the summertime of 2027.
The studio additionally debuted a first-look clip from Hoopers, an authentic Pixar comedy about Mabel (Piper Curda), a nature-loving younger lady attempting to cease the native Mayor Jerry (Jon Hamm), from constructing a freeway that may destroy her native woodlands. Due to a secret brain-swapping experiment, Mabel is ready to switch her thoughts right into a robotic beaver and heads to a pond, the place refugees from the encroaching industrialization have landed. There she tries to persuade the animals, led by he regal beaver King George (Bobby Moynihan) to hitch her and cease the freeway.
The Annecy session additionally included a preview of Elio, directed by Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi, and produced by Mary Alice Drumm. The science fiction journey, which premieres in theaters on June 20, follows 11-year-old Elio Solis (voiced by Yonas Kibreab), who’s mistakenly recognized as Earth’s ambassador after being kidnapped by aliens. The voice solid consists of Zoe Saldaña, Remy Edgerly, Brad Garrett, Jameela Jamil, and Shirley Henderson. Elio premiered earlier this week in Los Angeles. The Annecy crowd was handled to a full 25 minutes of footage.