What is Pixar's future? With a record as large as theirs, this question tends to appear with a higher frequency than anywhere else. However, the well -respected giant of animation seems to dry out the different Hollywood stops and begins in the last few years better than most. When the pandemic raised the ugly head, The studio was forced to move in the new reality of editions directly to streaming For tentpoles originally intended for theaters. When Disney led the subsequent filling in the digital space, Pixar played the ball and made his first time on streaming TV with a Disney+ "Victory or Loss" series. And when their parent company sharply changed the course and reherilized the theater experience, the studio once again wore its superhero gown and turned "elemental" into an attractive hit on the box officeJust when the exhibitors everywhere needed them.

However, it has been done a bit to reduce endless debates over Pixar to lose my own or become excessively depending on the sequels, rather than the innovative originals that used to be his bread and butter and the biggest test can still be on the horizon. Take a "Toy Story 5", for example, which can be a child posters for current tendencies to abduct an IP-grab Hollywood and the inability to let things end. What makes this story worth telling after the third film brought such a satisfying closure to the series as early as 2010 and the fourth miraculous wasn't terrible in 2019? How do Pixar perpetrators peel different films at the moment in the pipeline and understand the right mix of originals versus more franchise extensions? And, most importantly, can we expect any new innovation from such a leader of industry looking forward?

Recently, /the film attended a special presentation by Pixar in Newouper, which shows the upcoming list of the company, where the chief creative officer Pete Doctor addressed these problems with the pressures (and more) with a very convincing showing of confidence, from hosting early screening to the fastest "Layer" on the Fastest Screening. "To Toy 5". "Hopers" and especially "Gato", which has never emerged a project that can only be our sleep choice for Pixar's most exciting title right now.

Once the original "Toy Story" arrived on stage in 1995 and changed the animation landscape for good, here we are on the edge of its 30th anniversary - staring at the fifth film that somehow has to keep this property as vital and creative as always. It helps the franchise stabil Andrew Stanton to return as a co-writer and co-director with Pixar's veteran McKenna Harris, along with most of the original roles, including Tom Hanks as Woody, Tim Allen like Buz, Anoan Kuzak as much. We also knew that "The story of toys 5" would focus on the idea of ​​children who deal with the spread of electronics on the touch screen In spite of playing with physical toys, with Pit Docker being unusual to summarize it as "toys fill the technology". But is everything enough to help justify its existence this time around?

Here comes an unexpected bold opening of the "Toy Story 5". The first few minutes of the film take a picture of something that feels extremely unlike everything we have seen in the "Toy Story" before. The footage begins on a deliberate disorienting note: a light -waking toy wakes up on a beach, fresh from its packaging, without idea how he got there or why. Guided only with the result of foretelling and without real dialogue, we remain to set the pieces together. This buzz was part of the entire shipping container full of other buzz toys, apparently fell from the cargo dish and washed on this small island away from home. The group is desperately withdrawing its fate ... Until the first buzz look at the stunning sky and, as well as those monkeys in "2001: Space Odyssey" Learning to use tools for the first time, gradually remembers their orders for "rendering the Starwells". Prepare the ultimate mounting of all buildings of buzz improvised shelves and sailing through the open ocean with new passion. Destination? Unknown!

For those expecting a hacking scene for children and their tarnished mobile phones these days, it's fair to wonder as a real army of fresh face, factory reset, lights, stretch all about existential fears of technology. What is certain is that this great tone swing was enough to attract my iOsubocity and attention. "Toy Story 5" hits theaters June 19, 2026.

What follows should give Pixar fans even more reason to believe. No matter how important the "Toys 5 Story 5", Pete Doctor has made it clear that he feels bullish on the composition of original productions in the coming years. After all, he would know his best after directing "Monsters, Inc.", "Up", "Inside Out" and "Soul". After this month "Elio", which looks like a pleasant surprise in makingThe next two films on the plug look both fresh and exciting ... in many ways than one.

Docker set the stage with Hopers in 2026 (directed by Daniel Jong), revealing several extended scenes for us and describes the basic premise as "Avatar" fulfills the mission: impossible ", meets the planet of the planet, shared by the" student of the planet ". The hometown is under threat of destruction by local mayor Jerryi (Jonon Ham) an ambitious plan for highway construction. The only solution is to detect Mabel technology that allows scientists to "jump" their minds into robotic animal bodies - a useful trick that allows Mabel to go covered as a beard and convince the animal leader, King George (Bobby Moynihan). The footage we watched felt charming and funny, without straining mixing various genres together and adding all kinds of turns to world -class buildings in the mixture. Let's just say that the circle of life is treated as given by the Animal Animal, which immediately makes this feel like one of Pixar's most mature and adult films.

However, the most exciting of all was our first official view of "Gato". Directed by director "Luke" Enrico Kazarosa, the adventure in Venice, follows a black cat named Nero and a human street musician named Maya sharing a deep and permanent loveube to music. Although the light of the details of the story and still a lot of work is ongoing, the conceptual art and the animated shown to us have come out to highlight the art inherent in Venice. It will reflect as a big departure from Pixar's "House", as we have ever seen. Each visual retains the appearance of noticeable brushes, adding a sense of depth, dimension and "painting texture" (in his own words to a doctor) unlike any Pixar film in front of him. Watch out for the "Gato", releasing yourself in the summer of 2027.