DisneyFanatic.com The Latest News, Advice, and Perspective from Disney Fans for Disney Fans!
Next year (2024) will be a difficult time for movie theaters. The SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes in 2023 have both had a significant impact on the movie industry. For months, Disney, Pixar, and other studios all but shut down while writers and actors marched in picket lines for more money and updated union contracts.
Credit: Eden, Janine, and Jim, Flickr
However individuals may feel about the strikes or studios, there is one undeniable fact. Next year it will be very dry at the cinema. Marvel is only releasing one film in 2024: Deadpool 3. Meanwhile, many other films by Disney (and other studios) have either been canceled or delayed, pushing many of them back to 2025.
Related: ‘Snow White’ Star Rachel Zegler Faces Mediocre Reviews and Box Office Performance
Enter Disney/Pixar Movies
As such, it may come as no surprise that movie theater owners are more than happy to welcome SOMETHING….ANYTHING to the theaters.
Enter a series of Disney/Pixar movies that never saw theatrical releases. It has just been announced that Soul, Turning Red, and Luca will hit movie theaters in 2024.
Soul, Turning Red, and Luca finally getting a theatrical release. 🙌 https://t.co/3r7ar6qmx0
— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) December 5, 2023
Disney/Pixar’s Soul
Released on Disney+ in 2020, Soul follows the story of a music teacher who finds himself in the “Great Beyond” after an unfortunate accident.
Credit: Disney/Pixar
It stars the voice talents of Jamie Foxx as Joe Gardner, Tina Fey as 22, Graham Norton as Moonwind, and Angela Bassett as Dorothea Williams. It was nominated for three Academy Awards and won two.
Related: Soul Short ’22 Against Earth’ Coming To Disney+
Credit: Disney/Pixar
It was initially scheduled to be released in theaters but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It eventually made it to streaming in December 2020.
Disney/Pixar’s Turning Red
This animated coming-of-age comedy was released on Disney+ in 2022. It follows the story of Mei Lee, who lives in Toronto (in the strange year of 2002). However, one morning, she wakes up as a giant red panda.
Related: ‘Turning Red’ Boy Band Makes Surprise Appearance In Epcot
Credit: Disney
She quickly learns that it’s an affliction all women in her family have. It features the voice talents of Rosalie Chiang as Meilin “Mei” Lee, Sandra Oh as Mei’s strict mother, and Ava Morse, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and Hyein Park as Mei’s best friends.
Credit: Disney/Pixar
Disney/Pixar’s Luca
Luca debuted on Disney+ in 2021 while the COVID-19 pandemic was still having an impact on the world. It tells the story of a timid sea monster child, Luca Paguro, who herds goatfish off the coast of Portorosso in Italy.
Credit: Disney
But one day, he meets a fellow sea monster who teaches him he can turn human. It stars the voices of Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, Emma Berman, Saverio Raimondo, Maya Rudolph, Marco Barricelli, and Jim Gaffigan.
Coming Soon
All of these Disney/Pixar movies were never released in cinemas due to the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to costing millions of dollars to make, despite their popularity on Disney+, they have yet to have the chance to draw in box office revenue or provide Disney Pixar fans with the moviegoing experience.
Related: Beyonce Takes on Disney and Bob Iger (And Wins)
