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This sounds cool. I hope this is better than Luca. I did not like Luca.

Easily my most anticipated Pixar movie in production.
Luca was amazing.

Luca was far from amazing to me. It was beautiful visually but then it started as a Little Mermaid rehash and then a story that would have been interesting if it was about a gay teenage boy who loses his crush to a girl cause his crush is straight but the kids were far too young for that so it didn't make sense. It is not considered a Pixar classic.

many people online already hate Gatto and call it a cheap ripoff of Flow (still havent seen the movie!!!! Like when is Netflix finally streaming it!!! ) But i dont think thats the case as Flow just gained global recognition less than a year ago and Gatto must have been in development atleast since early 2022, its just a Coincidence and they literally just share a cat that is black...

People is dumb.

Disney Duster wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 10:35 pm Luca was far from amazing to me. It was beautiful visually but then it started as a Little Mermaid rehash and then a story that would have been interesting if it was about a gay teenage boy who loses his crush to a girl cause his crush is straight but the kids were far too young for that so it didn't make sense. It is not considered a Pixar classic.

I wouldn't say it was amazing, but Luca was more interesting than I usually find PIXAR films. Not as good as Turning Red though. Gatto looks like the first one so far since those two that might be good, too. I admit, the commercials for Elio made me a little more curious to see it, but I never could get high anticipation for that film. It looks like it has a similar problem to both Wish and Elemental, at least going by reviews... At least I remember thinking both those films felt as if someone higher-up must've told both studios to simplify, dumb things down more because they both felt much less refined than you usually expect from either studio, tbh. I still do like Wish myself though even if it's very unremarkable, I just know it could've been a great film (or at least much better) considering the pieces they had there. Anyway, the reviews for Elio seem to mention a lot how childish it is compared to other PIXAR films, so I expect it's a continuation of this trend.

I think it's undoubtedly an executive--maybe Iger?--who reached into both studios and told them to do that. I mean, nobody wants a family animated film to be too complex, of cpirse. Maybe that's what they landed on as their problem, that pethaps Raya, Strange World, and Lightyear went too far awry in that direction what with Raya having all the different countries / mythology, Lightyear being so dire and serious with the timeline confusion, and Strange World with the weird living organism stuff. But both studios' output has never been "childish" like Wish, Elemental, and now Elio. You look at the '90s and '10s for WDAS, none of those films were childish aside from WIR (and even it has dramatic moments). And PIXAR's whole brand was being "serious" despite the family film veneer. They need to focus on a middle ground because they went way too far the other way.

Yeah, Disney and Pixar never used to be childish. I don't find Wish childish, just meh, and not done right. I really do not like Turning Red myself, though.

I feel skeptical if this movie will actually be making it to the finish line in 2027. Especially if their new IP keep losing them money. The worrying sign would be a delay 1 year or 2 from it's release. I sure hope Casarosa sticks to his vision.

the film is now scheduled to be released on March 5, 2027. Originally, Gatto was due to premiere in theaters on June 18, 2027.

https://wdwnt.com/2025/12/disney-pixars ... date-2027/

Great news! We're getting Gatto 4 months early and a second Pixar movie will most probably take its spot.

Every Pixar movie released in March is followed by a second one in June.

The Cat's Meow: New Logo for Upcoming Pixar Film "Gatto" Revealed
https://www.laughingplace.com/disney-en ... atto-logo/

bulgaross wrote: ↑Mon Dec 22, 2025 10:06 pm Great news! We're getting Gatto 4 months early and a second Pixar movie will most probably take its spot.

Every Pixar movie released in March is followed by a second one in June.

I'm thinking they will move coco2 up, and delay Incredibles 3 just a bit.

The logo looks nice.

Though all I can say at this moment is ... now that Pixar has just left "Hoppers" to its fate, I'm hoping that they're gearing up to support and promote this movie, and "Hexed" for that matter.

What a plain and generic logo. Sorry to say.

Pete Docter wrote:Gatto is really exciting for many reasons. First of all, it's just a great story. Second, it's set in Venice, which is kind of like a living painting. And so we're trying to bring that aesthetic to the look. It's not as photorealistic as historically our films have been. I do feel like we're at an interesting point in animation history where people have grown up with so much around them that they're looking for something new. I think that's the challenge for all of us, for our directing team, to find that new thing that, on the one hand, will make people go, "Whoa, I've never seen that!" but on the other, go like "I understand and I recognize that as somehow being part of my own experience as a human."

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYY6MgLiBds

Between things like the Spiderverse movies and The Wild Robot, we're at a place where CG animation is starting to do what it always should have been doing and reinventing itself. I think the Pixar brand will only be better for it.

Next year’s “Gatto,” about a feline thief in Venice, features animal fur and human hair that look like they were painted by hand, rather than a computer trying to simulate the real thing.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/business/media/pixa ... r-80c57f9d

Well, it`s remarkable that Disney are going to have another Italian setting after Luca. And the painterly style is definitively a first for them. But I truly hope that it will look better than the half-baked style of Wish.

Disney Duster wrote: ↑Tue Jun 17, 2025 10:19 pm This sounds cool. I hope this is better than Luca. I did not like Luca.

Agreed, I didn`t like Luca either. I`m completely turned off by the clay-like designs of their human characters that Pixar has ever since, but those character designs are so blah. But I thought that Luca was bland, forgettable and generic. Perhaps I should give it another shot, but I can`t remember anything of it.

The movie looks basic and boring in my opinion but I hope I’m wrong because I though that about Hoppers first news and now I love the movie

Pixar will go behind the scenes of Enrico Casarosa’s upcoming Venice-set tale Gatto, about a cat on the run from the local feline mob bosses, and also a new short film from the director and Lou Hamou-Lhadj.

Source: https://deadline.com/2026/04/annecy-202 ... 236873813/

Pixar will follow with a behind-the-scenes of their upcoming feature “Gatto,” which was first announced last year on the very same stage. Academy Award-nominated director Enrico Casarosa will whisk(er) the audience away into a world of Venetian canals, feline mob bosses, and trepidatious superstition. In this exclusive presentation, Annecy’s crowds will learn more about the film’s creative ethos and unique hand-painted animation style, and how Casarosa and his team at Pixar brought this original story to life. In addition to this sneak peek, audiences will also be treated to a special look at Pixar’s upcoming all-new short film directed by Enrico Casarosa and Lou Hamou-Lhadj and produced by Mary Alice Drumm.

Source: https://variety.com/2026/film/global/an ... 236731523/