Usually, when you hear about date changes for movies, it’s about a delay. Isn’t it nice on those rare occasions when it turns out to be an “undelay” — the release date is moved UP instead of BACK?

Gatto, Pixat’s latest original concept, was announced last June at the Annecy Animation Festival for a release date of June 18, 2027. It has now been moved up three months to March 5, 2027. No reason was given for the shift, but production must be ahead of schedule.

Gatto is the tale of a black cat in Venice with a lack of luck. You see, in Italy even the cats are mixed up in organized crime, and Nero, the “gatto” of the story, is in debt to a feline mob boss and looking for a place to hide. He’s got a passion for music, so he’s allured to the melodies of Maya, a Venice street musician. Nero and Maya form a tight friendship, which they’ll need to deal with Nero’s problems.

Enrico Casarosa, director of Luca (which you’ll remember also took place in Italy) is leading the charge on Gatto, and he shared one more bit of character lore with the audience at Annecy: Nero hates water. Then he kinda picked the wrong place to live, wouldn’t you say?

It’s worth pointing out Gatto is the first original Pixar film in a long while that doesn’t have a child as its focal POV. Critics have called this era of their work the “kid era” because from Turning Red to Elio to Luca to Onward, everything that isn’t a sequel has been about a human kid. It’s quite the shift for a studio that founded itself on “the secret lives of inanimate objects” premises. At this point, getting a flick about a cat feels like a nice change of pace.

Nothing has been released for Gatto beyond the concept painting shared at Annecy. Look for this cat to strut across screens March 5, 2027.

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