‘The Incredibles’ (Disney-Pixar)



by Pamela McClintock

In celebrating crossing $4 billion at the global box office, Disney has made a number of changes and additions to its release calendar, cementing its live-action fairy tale empire and setting the course for Marvel Studios, Pixar and Disney Animation Studios through 2020.

Highlights include release dates for Cars 3 (June 16, 2017) and The Incredibles 2 (June 21, 2019), both from Pixar. In order to make room for the Cars threequel, Pixar’s Toy Story 4 is being pushed back a year from June 16, 2017 to June 15, 2018.

There’s also big news in the Marvel Studios universe. Marvel and Disney announced they are moving ahead with sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, which will hit theaters July 6, 2018, the date previously reserved for Black Panther. Black Panther will now open earlier, on Feb. 16, 2018.

Related: Marvel Sets ‘Ant-Man’ Sequel For 2018

The Ant-Man sequel further means that Captain Marvel is being pushed back from Nov. 2, 2018 to March 8, 2019, only two months before Avengers: Infinity Part II unfurls. And three untitled Marvel titles have been dated for 2020.

Disney revealed that the Pixar film already dated for Nov. 22, 2017 is Coco, while the Disney Animation title set for March 6, 2018 is Gigantic.

Pointing to its prowess in the live-fairy action space, Disney, home studio of hits including Maleficent and Cinderella, set three untitled films for release on Nov. 2, 2018, March 29, 2019 and Nov. 8, 2019, respectively.

Dating an untitled film is known as a “placeholder,” and has become common practice for studios. To that end, Disney set an untitled Dsienytoon Studios movie for April 12, 2019, as well as an untitled Pixar film for March 13, 2020, another Pixar title for June 19, 2020 and an untitled Disney Animation Studios movie for Nov. 25, 2020.