Disney is opening Pixar‘s Soul, Luca and Turning Red — which during the pandemic went straight to Disney+ and never had theatrical releases — for the first time in theaters.
Soul, Pete Doctor’s Oscar-winning 2020 animated film about a middle-school band teacher who is transported to the “Great Before,” is slated to open for a limited engagement on Jan. 12. Turning Red, Domee Shi’s 2022 Oscar-nominated movie about a teen who turns into a red Panda, debuts in theaters on Feb. 9. And Enrico Casarosa’s Oscar-nominated sea monster story Luca, set in Italy, bows March 22.
Luca will be paired with Pixar classic For the Birds (2000), which won an Oscar for best animated short. Soul will be preceded by Pixar’s Oscar-nominated 2020 SparkShort Burrow; and Turning Red, with Academy-Award-nominated 2019 SparkShort Kitbull.
Pixar’s first post-pandemic theatrical release was Lightyear in 2022, followed by last spring’s Elemental.
The studio’s next theatrical release will be Inside Out 2, the sequel to its 2015 Oscar-winning film about what goes on inside a child’s head, which is slated to open in June. In the sequel, Riley is now a teen confronted with new emotions.
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