Thousands of fans turned out at the Arena D23 by Bradesco/Visa at D23 Brazil – A Disney Experience as Disney live action, Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios revealed new details, shared exclusive footage and new trailers, and surprised the crowd with special appearances from global talent and local voices. The fan event at The Transamerica Expo Center in São Paulo, featured extensive programming with diverse panels and presentations, offerings on the show floor and the D23 Brazil Store Mercado Libre.
Hosted by Otaviano Costa and Carol Moreira, the event welcomed studio leaders, including Jared Bush, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Chief Creative Officer, and Jonas Rivera, Executive Vice President of film production at Pixar, plus Mufasa: The Lion King director Barry Jenkins. Among the highlights were the official trailer reveal of the photoreal CG sequel, as well as the confirmation that Ice Age 6 is on the way.
In addition to Mufasa, the Disney Live-Action presentation offered a first look at the reimagining of Lilo & Stitch. Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On), the remake of the 2002 animated hit is due in theaters Summer 2025.
Logline: Lilo & Stitch is the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugi3ve alien who helps to mend her broken family.
The film stars Maia Kealoha, Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Billy Magnussen, Tia Carrere, Hannah Waddingham and Lilo & Stitch (2002) director Chris Sanders, with Courtney B. Vance and Zach Galifianakis. Producers are Jonathan Eirich and Dan Lin, with Tom Peitzman and Ryan Halprin serving as executive producers.
Opening the Pixar presentation, Rivera thanks the audience for their support of Inside Out 2 this year — the highest-grossing animated feature of all time. Attendees got to see the first episode of the Inside Out spinoff series Dream Productions, coming to Disney+ on December 11, as well as a sneak peek of all-new original series Win or Lose, premiering on the streamer on February 19, 2025. (Read more about the shows here.)
The D23 Brazil audience was the first to see an exclusive new trailer for Pixar’s upcoming feature film Elio, which opens in theaters June 13, 2025. Fans learned more about Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination who gets beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization that mistakes him for Earth’s leader.
The presentation also offered an early look at Hoppers, the new original feature film slated for release on March 6, 2026. Directed by We Bare Bears creator Daniel Chong and produced by Nicole Paradis Grindle, the voice cast features Piper Curda, Bobby Moynihan and Jon Hamm.
Synopsis: What if you could talk to animals and understand what they’re saying? In Disney and Pixar’s all-new feature film Hoppers, scientists have discovered how to “hop” human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals, allowing people to communicate with animals as animals! The adventure introduces Mabel, an animal lover who seizes an opportunity to use the technology, uncovering mysteries within the animal world that are beyond anything she could have imagined.
Of course, the original Pixar animation stars Buzz and Woody had to be included in the festivities. Their next adventure will unfold in Toy Story 5, in theaters on June 19, 2026. The fifth chapter is directed by Oscar winner Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, WALL-E), co-directed by McKenna Harris and produced by Jessica Choi.
Logline: The toys are back in Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5, and this time around it’s Toy meets Tech. Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs get exponentially harder when they go head to head with this all-new threat to playtime.
The studio also confirmed that the super-hero Parr family will return to the big screen in Incredibles 3!
Walt Disney Animation Studios spotlighted Moana 2, which charts a new Oceania adventure in theaters on November 27. Fans at D23 Brazil were treated to a sneak peek of the film.
Stars Auli‘i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson gave fans a chee hoo via video to build excitement for the film, which picks up three years later when Moana sets out to save her people’s future. Brazilian superstar Any Gabrielly, who voices Moana in the Brazilian dub, performed the end-credits version of new song from the film, “Beyond.”
Bush is co-writer and executive producer of Moana 2” and is also the writer/director of Zootopia 2. The recently appointed CCO celebrated fans’ next visit to the animal metropolis (slated for November 26, 2025) with a very special video greeting from Shakira, who shared for the first time that she’d be returning to play Zootopia’s pop sensation, Gazelle, in the new movie.
The sequel to the global phenomenon sees detectives Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile who turns the mammal metropolis upside down.
Directed by Bush and Byron Howard and produced by Yvett Merino, the film will also feature the voices of Ke Huy Kwan and Fortune Feimster.
