He credits Star Wars and Toy Story with launching a lifelong fascination with movies that led to his career, and now he has a wide range of cinematic tastes, enjoying the latest Hollywood blockbusters, Oscar contenders, and everything in between.
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In addition to covering the latest news and hottest movie topics daily, Chris has attended numerous media events for Screen Rant, including San Diego Comic-Con, delivering content his readers care about. In 2013, Chris was hired to write weekly box office prediction posts in conjunction with the Screen Rant Underground podcast's Box Office Battle game and his role expanded over the next few years. He is a graduate of Wesley College's Bachelor of Media Arts and Master of Sport Leadership programs. Next: When Is Luca Set? Pixar Movie's Time Period ExplainedĬhris Agar is a news editor for Screen Rant, also writing features and movie reviews for the site as one of Screen Rant's Rotten Tomatoes approved critics. Hopefully, but the time that Pixar animation releases Turning Red in March 2023, moviegoers will have less to worry about with regards to seeing films in crowded theaters. Disney's recent box office numbers have already shown that people are willing to return to the theater for big new releases like these however, there is still some apprehension related to the COVID-19 pandemic and some viewers will likely still continue to wait for movies to hit streaming before they see them. This release schedule that means while 2022 will see two new theatrical releases of Pixar films, 2023 will only have one release before Pixar returns to the two release-a-year model in 2024. However, the dates show the scope of Pixar's plan through to the summer of 2024 as the announced dates are June 16, 2023, March 1, 2024, and finally June 14, 2024. Unfortunately, no details about titles, plots, directors, or casts have been released yet. Turning Red - March 11, 2022Īs well as Turning Red and Lightyear, Pixar has three additional films announced with release dates. Here's a list of every Pixar film coming out over the next couple of years. For now, its future films are slated to be released in theaters, and with many of Disney's properties, such as the MCU movies, meeting their theatrical release dates with success, there's no reason to think that the Pixar films won't do the same. The effects of the pandemic are still being felt, with the last two Pixar features foregoing on a theatrical release altogether, with Soul and Luca being made available to stream without even the additional $30 price tag that comes with Disney+'s Premier Access. Onward was the last of Pixar's movies to receive a theatrical release before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down productions for several months and closed theaters. Looking ahead, Pixar has quite a few animated films headed to theaters (now that they're starting to fully open in many locations). Related: How Luca Fits Into The Pixar Shared Universe
Souland, most recently, Luca - despite having been released solely to Disney+ instead of theaters - prove that the studio still has a spark left and it doesn't need to rely solely on sequels and recycled ideas to forge a forward path. After an influx of sequels, Pixar is looking to continue developing more original films in the future. It goes without saying that they are an integral part of Disney's ever-growing reach, and under the leadership of new CCO Pete Docter, the company has plenty of upcoming projects that will hopefully delight fans. The executives and creatives continue to reach the incredibly high bar they set for themselves at the very beginning over 20 films later, Pixar has grossed more than $13 billion at the worldwide box office and has won nine Best Animated Feature Oscars. Since the first Toy Story, Pixar has gone on to become one of the most prolific companies in the film industry. Audiences and critics were impressed with Toy Story's well-rounded narrative and characters, establishing the studio as a major player in the business.
It was the highest-grossing film domestically in the year of its release and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. While the incredible technical achievement was well worth the hype and praise, it certainly helped matters that Toy Story was also an incredibly successful movie. Back in 1995, the studio completely revolutionized animation in Hollywood with the release of Toy Story, the industry's first computer-animated feature film.
The beloved animated studio looks to be entering a new phase. There are a lot of Pixar movies on the way in the early 2020s. Following the release of Luca, the future of Pixar looks bright.