There’s A LOT going on at the Walt Disney Studios with the recent FOX acquisition. The number of titles coming out from the house of mouse has more than doubled and we now have a schedule looking ahead as far as 2027!
Exciting look aheads include three new as-yet-untitled Star Wars films will release on the pre-Christmas weekend every other year beginning in 2022. The four forthcoming Avatar films will release on the pre-Christmas weekend every other year beginning in 2021. In the holiday corridor for 2020, Fox’s West Side Story adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, will debut Dec. 18 in the pre-Christmas slot, with Disney’s Cruella opening Wednesday, Dec. 23, for the long holiday weekend.
This year, The Walt Disney Studios’ 2019 summer slate includes Disney’s Aladdin on May 24, Fox’s Dark Phoenix on June 7, Pixar’s Toy Story 4 on June 21, Fox’s Stuber on July 12, and Disney’s The Lion King on July 19. Fox 2000’s The Art of Racing in the Rain moves up to Aug. 9, and Fox Searchlight’s Ready or Not will release on Aug. 23, while three films move to later dates: Ad Astra (9/20/19), The New Mutants (4/3/20), and Artemis Fowl (5/29/20).
The Studios’ 2019 slate rounds out with Fox’s The Woman in the Window on Oct. 4 and Ford V. Ferrari on Nov. 15, Disney’s Maleficent: Mistress of Evil on Oct. 18 and Disney Animation’s Frozen 2 on Nov. 22, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker on Dec. 20, and Blue Sky Studios’ Spies in Disguise, moving from September to Christmas. Among early 2020 titles are Fox’s Underwater on Jan. 10, a new Kingsman movie on Feb. 14, and Call of the Wild on Feb. 21, followed by Pixar’s Onward on March 6 and Disney’s Mulan on March 27.
2019
Disney
- (5/24/19) ALADDIN
- (6/21/19) TOY STORY 4
- (7/19)/19) THE LION KING
- (10/18/19) MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL
- (11/22/19) FROZEN 2
- (12/20/19) STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
Fox
- (6/7/19) DARK PHOENIX
- (7/12/19) STUBER
- (8/9/19) ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN
- (9/20/19) AD ASTRA
- (10/4/19) WOMAN IN THE WINDOW
- (11/15/19) FORD v. FERRARI
- (12/25/19) SPIES IN DISGUISE
Fox Search Light
- (5/10/19) TOLKIEN
- (8/23/19) READY OR NOT
2020
Disney
- (3/6/20) ONWARD
- (3/27/20) MULAN
- (5/1/20) UNTITLED MARVEL
- (5/29/20) ARTEMIS FOWL
- (6/19/20) UNTITLED PIXAR ANIMATION
- (7/24/20) JUNGLE CRUISE
- (8/14/20) THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN
- (11/6/20) UNTITLED MARVEL
- (11/25/20) UNTITLED DISNEY ANIMATION
- (12/23/20) CRUELLA
Fox
- (1/10/20) UNDERWATER
- (2/14/20) UNTITLED KINGSMAN MOVIE
- (2/21/20) CALL OF THE WILD
- (4/3/20) THE NEW MUTANTS
- (7/3/20) FREE GUY
- (7/17/20) BOB’S BURGERS
- (10/9/20) DEATH ON THE NILE
- (11/6/20) RON’S GONE WRONG
- (12/18/20) WEST SIDE STORY
2021
Disney
- (2/12/21) UNTITLED MARVEL
- (3/12/21) UNTITLED DISNEY LIVE ACTION
- (5/7/21) UNTITLED MARVEL
- (5/28/21) UNTITLED DISNEY LIVE ACTION
- (6/18/21) UNTITLED PIXAR ANIMATION
- (7/9/21) UNTITLED INDIANA JONES
- (7/30/21) UNTITLED DISNEY LIVE ACTION
- (10/8/21) UNTITLED DISNEY LIVE ACTION
- (11/5/21) UNTITLED MARVEL
- (11/24/21) UNTITLED DISNEY ANIMATION
Fox
- (3/5/21) NIMONA
- (12/17/21) AVATAR 2
2022
Disney
- (2/18/22) UNTITLED MARVEL
- (3/18/22) UNTITLED PIXAR
- (5/6/22) UNTITLED MARVEL
- (5/27/22) UNTITLED DISNEY LIVE ACTION
- (6/17/22) UNTITLED PIXAR
- (7/8/22) UNTITLED DISNEY LIVE ACTION
- (7/29/22) UNTITLED MARVEL
- (10/7/22) UNTITLED DISNEY LIVE ACTION
- (11/4/22) UNTITLED DISNEY LIVE ACTION
- (11/23/22) UNTITLED DISNEY ANIMATION
- (12/16/22) UNTITLED STAR WARS
2023
Disney
- (2/17/23) UNTITLED DISNEY LIVE ACTION
Fox
- (12/22/23) AVATAR 3
2024
Disney
- (12/20/24) UNTITLED STAR WARS
2025
Fox
- (12/19/25) AVATAR 4
2026
Disney
- (12/18/26) UNTITLED STAR WARS
2027
Fox
- (12/17/27) AVATAR 5