Overview
- Pixar released the full Gatto trailer and poster on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026, and confirmed the film will open exclusively in theaters on March 5, 2027 with the new short Loving Dory playing beforehand.
- The trailer introduces Nero, a scrappy black cat voiced by Mark Ruffalo who has used eight of his nine lives and is indebted to a feline mob boss named Rocco, voiced by Laurence Fishburne.
- Pixar publicly revealed an expanded ensemble cast that includes Bianca Babaşa, Sherry Cola, John Turturro, Jason Schwartzman, Tracey Ullman and others, and credited Enrico Casarosa as director and Andrea Warren as producer.
- The studio says Gatto adopts a painterly, brushstroke-infused look that mixes hand-painted textures with CGI, a process reportedly using tens of thousands of painted frames and a large artist team to create a tactile Venice setting.
- Pixar positions the film as a return to original storytelling with prestige elements like an Oscar-winning composer, Dario Marianelli, and a theatrical-first rollout that could reinforce cinema attendance and wider interest in stylized animation.