Three feature films from Disney and Pixar — 2020’s Soul, 2021’s Luca and 2022’s Turning Red — will hit the big screen nationwide for the first time ever in 2024! Tickets go on sale January 2, 2024 for the special engagement theatrical runs, which invite moviegoers to experience three Pixar films the way they were meant to be seen ahead of the studio’s June 2024 theatrical release of Inside Out 2.
Audiences will be treated to a Pixar animated short film ahead of each of the features:
- Soul, opening in theaters on January 12, will be accompanied by the SparkShort Burrow
- Turning Red, opening February 9, with SparkShort Kitbull
- Luca, opening March 22, with classic Pixar short For the Birds
Check out the new theatrical engagement trailer and find more information about the features and shorts below.
Soul (Jan. 12, 2024)
What is it that makes you…YOU? Pixar Animation Studios’ Soul, Oscar winner for best animated feature film, introduces Joe Gardner (voice of Jamie Foxx) — a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. But one small misstep takes him from the streets of New York City to The Great Before — a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities, quirks and interests before they go to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22 (Tina Fey), who has never understood the appeal of the human experience. As Joe desperately tries to show 22 what’s great about living, he may just discover the answers to some of life’s most important questions.
Directed by Academy Award winner Pete Docter (Inside Out, Up), co-directed by Kemp Powers (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, One Night in Miami — Oscar nominee for best adapted screenplay) and produced by Academy Award winner Dana Murray, p.g.a. (Pixar short Lou), Soul also won the Oscar for best achievement in music written for motion picture (original score by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste), as well as Golden Globes for best animated picture and best original motion picture score, and Grammy for best score soundtrack for visual media.
In Burrow, a young rabbit embarks on a journey to dig the burrow of her dreams, despite not having a clue what she’s doing. Rather than reveal to her neighbors her imperfections, she digs herself deeper and deeper into trouble. After hitting (bed)rock bottom, she learns there is no shame in asking for help.
Directed by Madeline Sharafian and produced by Mike Capbarat, Burrow is part of Pixar Animation Studios’ SparkShorts program.
Turning Red (Feb. 9, 2024)
Disney and Pixar’s Turning Red introduces Mei Lee (voice of Rosalie Chiang), a confident, dorky 13-year-old torn between staying her mother’s dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming (Sandra Oh), is never far from her daughter — an unfortunate reality for the teenager. And as if changes to her interests, relationships and body weren’t enough, whenever she gets too excited (which is practically ALWAYS), she “poofs” into a giant red panda!
Directed by Academy Award winner Domee Shi (Pixar short Bao) and produced by Lindsey Collins (Finding Dory), Turning Red was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for best animated feature.
Pixar Animation Studios’ SparkShort Kitbull, directed by Rosana Sullivan and produced by Kathryn Hendrickson, reveals an unlikely connection that sparks between two creatures: a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull. Together, they experience friendship for the first time.
Luca (March 22, 2024)
Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar’s original feature film Luca is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca (voice of Jacob Tremblay) shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, Alberto (Jack Dylan Grazer), but all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.
Directed by Academy Award nominee Enrico Casarosa (La Luna) and produced by Andrea Warren (Lava, Cars 3), Luca was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for best animated feature.
In Pixar Animation Studios’ Academy Award-winning short film For the Birds, small birds mock a big bird who tries to join them on a telephone wire.
Written and directed by Ralph Eggleston and produced by Karen Dufilho-Rosen, For the Birds initially opened in front of Disney and Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. in 2001.
