The Walt Disney Studios unveiled a diverse and ambitious slate of 10 new animated feature films from Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios to be released through 2012. Franchise films announced include 2010’s Toy Story 3 and 2012’s Cars 2. T

April 6, 2018

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The Walt Disney Studios unveiled a diverse and ambitious slate of 10 new animated feature films from Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios to be released through 2012. Franchise films announced include 2010’s Toy Story 3 and 2012’s Cars 2. The company also announced that work has begun on High School Musical 4.

The roster of new animated features includes six new films from Pixar Animation Studios, four from Walt Disney Animation Studios, and the first four in a series of direct-to-DVD films featuring Disney Fairies from DisneyToon Studios. Starting later this year with the release of Disney’s Bolt, all Disney and Pixar animated features will be presented in state-of-the-art Disney Digital 3-D. Additionally, newly converted 3-D versions of classics Toy Story and Toy Story 2 are set to debut in 2009 and 2010, respectively.

Commenting on the announcement, Dick Cook, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios said, “With so many great films literally on the drawing boards and computer screens, we felt that now was the perfect time to give moviegoers all over the world an update on the state of our art. In a year when our Studio is marking the 80th anniversary of Mickey Mouse, the character that started it all for us, it seems especially timely to share our plans for the future of animation. With John Lasseter and Ed Catmull guiding our creative efforts both at Emeryville and in Burbank, this is as exciting a time as any in our history.”

At the Disney Channel upfront, Rich Ross, president of Disney Channels worldwide, announced High School Musical 4 as part of a slate of upcoming Disney Channel original movies, including the Jonas Brothers’ Camp Rock. Unlike High School Musical 3, the fourth film is likely to air on Disney Channel rather than be a theatrical release, and might not feature the entire cast like the first three films have.

Highlights for 2009 and beyond include the 2-D animated The Princess and the Frog (Disney, Christmas 2009); fairy tale films Rapunzel (Disney, Christmas 2010) and The Bear and the Bow (Pixar, Christmas 2011); and the sequels Toy Story 3 (Pixar, June 2010) and Cars 2 (Pixar, summer 2012).

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