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The clock above counts down to Gatto, Pixar's spring 2027 original feature directed by Enrico Casarosa and set on the streets of Rome, opening March 5, 2027.
Gatto is Enrico Casarosa's follow-up to Luca, his 2021 Pixar feature debut about Italian Riviera summers. Set in present-day Rome and centered on a stray cat navigating the city's piazzas, churches, and apartment courtyards, Gatto is Pixar's first fully original (non-sequel, non-spinoff) feature in the post-Onward, post-Soul cycle. After a string of sequels (Inside Out 2, Toy Story 5, Incredibles 3), Pixar is returning original-storytelling muscle to the front of its slate.
Casarosa is one of Pixar's longest-tenured story artists, having joined the studio in 2002 and worked on Ratatouille, Up, and Brave before directing Luca. His expressive, hand-drawn-influenced visual style positions Gatto as Pixar's most stylistically distinctive original since Soul.
The film leans into observational, wordless physical comedy in the tradition of Disney's Paperman short and the cat-centric Pixar short Kitbull. Pixar has signaled a "less plot, more atmosphere" approach — closer to Luca and Soul than to the Toy Story sequel formula. Visual storytelling around Roman architecture, piazza life, and the stray-cat colonies of the Largo di Torre Argentina ruins is the early marketing throughline.
Gatto opens worldwide in theaters on March 5, 2027 from Walt Disney Studios, in standard, IMAX, and premium-large-format presentations. Pixar films typically reach Disney+ around 90 to 120 days after theatrical release.
For more 2027 family-animation tentpoles, see the Super Mario Galaxy Movie countdown for the prior year's anchor.
When does Gatto release? March 5, 2027. Who directs? Enrico Casarosa, who previously directed Luca. Is Gatto a sequel? No — it is an original Pixar feature. Where is the film set? Rome, Italy, with Roman cat colonies as a central conceit.
