From our Friends at D23
D23 Brazil – A Disney Experience on Sunday wrapped up its historic three-day run at the Transamerica Expo Center in Sao Paulo. The country’s largest-ever event for Disney fans too place November 8 through 10 and featured spectacular programming, immersive offerings that brought fans closer to beloved stories from all the worlds of Disney, a variety of panels and presentations by local and international talent, live performances; and a Disney Store developed in collaboration with Mercado Livre.
Renato D’Angelo, General Manager of The Walt Disney Company Brazil, opened the convention Friday morning by cutting the ribbon alongside the beloved Brazilian Disney character, Zé Carioca.
Disney Live Action and More
Also on Friday, fans showed their support and excitement at Arena D23 by Bradesco/Visa for a series of announcements by Disney Live Action, Pixar, and Walt Disney Animation Studios—revealing new details, exclusive previews, and trailers.
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. But it was the enthusiastic São Paulo crowd that really turned up the volume of the celebration for The Walt Disney Studios’ upcoming theatrical releases and streaming titles.
D23 Brazil fans were delighted with the announcement that Ice Age 6 is officially in production. Manny, Diego, Ellie, Sid, Scrat, and Baby Scrat are heading back to the big screen in an epic animated adventure. A short video to celebrate the announcement was also released featuring returning cast members Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, and John Leguizamo, who will also be joined by Denis Leary and Simon Pegg in the new film. More details and cast announcements will be revealed at a future date.
Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King director Jenkins greeted excited fans, offering details about the all-new story that explores the unlikely rise of the beloved king of the Pride Lands. D23 Brazil guests were the first to see a new trailer for the film, which opens in theaters across the United States on December 20.
Rachel Zegler, star of Disney’s Snow White—a live-action reimagining of the classic tale—gave a magical shout-out via video to the D23 Brazil attendees, who were treated to an exclusive new trailer. Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, and Sneezy will join the fairest of them all in theaters on March 21, 2025.
The crowd also caught a glimpse of the fan-favorite fugitive alien from Disney’s much-anticipated feature Lilo & Stitch. The live-action reimagining of the animated classic about the lonely Hawaiian girl and her new, out-of-this-world alien friend who helps mend her broken family opens in theaters on May 23, 2025.
TRON: Ares, which opens in theaters on October 10, 2025, didn’t disappoint when star Jared Leto appeared on the big screen via video. Additionally, fans were treated to a special look at the film, which follows a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission—marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings.
Pixar Animation Studios
Jonas Rivera, Executive Vice President of Production at Pixar, thanked fans for their support of Inside Out 2—the highest-grossing animated film of all time, that currently tops the list of highest-grossing films released in 2024 (worldwide)!
Dream Productions, a new limited series from the world of Inside Out, returns to Riley’s mind, where a team of directors hope to find the next hit dream. Fans got a special look at the series, plus the very first episode in its entirety. All four episodes begin streaming on Disney+ on December 11.
Win or Lose, an all-new original series launching on Disney+ on February 19, 2025, features the intertwined stories of different characters as they each prepare for their championship softball game. The D23 Brazil audience was given a sneak peek of the winning series.
The audience was also the first to see an exclusive new trailer in the works 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.
Meanwhile, the upcoming Disney and Pixar feature film Hoppers introduces Mabel, an animal lover who seizes an opportunity to use new technology to “hop” her consciousness into a life-like robotic beaver. The audience saw a special piece about the film, which opens in theaters in 2026.
Audiences first met Buzz, Woody and a toybox full of toys nearly 30 years ago—and D23 Brazil fans were invited to reminisce… But on June 19, 2026, fans will behold the next chapter when Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5 hits theaters. 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 Parr family will be back on the big screen in Incredibles 3. Fans were delighted to see first-hand that their favorite Super family has another adventure in the works.
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Jared Bush shared his excitement about two upcoming features heading to theaters. As co-writer and executive producer of Moana 2 and writer/director of Zootopia 2, Bush had the inside scoop.
Moana 2 voyages into theaters this month, on November 27, and 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 a new song from the film, “Beyond.”
For Zootopia 2, Bush introduced 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 and Nick Wilde on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile who turns the mammal metropolis upside down. Fans got a special look at the film, which hits theaters in November 2025.
Day 2 Special Guests
The excitement continued on Saturday as Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, and Marvel Studios treated the crowd inside Arena D23 by Bradesco/Visa to sneak peeks, trailers, and surprises spotlighting upcoming films and series.
Otaviano Costa and Carol Moreira once again served as event hosts, welcoming megastars to the stage, including Rami Malek (The Amateur); Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio (Daredevil: Born Again); David Harbour (Thunderbolts*); and Anthony Mackie and Danny Ramirez (Captain America: Brave New World). Also on hand were director and Disney Legend James Cameron (Avatar: Fire and Ash), who appeared live from New Zealand, and Marvel Studios executives Kevin Feige, Producer and President, and Brad Winderbaum, Head of Streaming, Television, and Animation. Together, they revved up the São Paulo crowd and celebrated the upcoming slate from The Walt Disney Studios.
Star Wars
Star Jude Law greeted fans in a pre-recorded message before introducing a special look at Skeleton Crew, a brand-new Star Wars series launching Tuesday, December 3, with the first two episodes on Disney+.
Representing Season 2 of the critically acclaimed, Emmy® Award-nominated series Andor, droid B2 EMO rolled on stage to meet the D23 Brazil fans, who went wild. The Disney+ launch date for the acclaimed, thrilling series—April 22, 2025—was revealed, and the crowd got a special look at the series’ second and final season. The 12 episodes of Season 2 carry the story of Cassian Andor and the emerging rebel alliance over the climactic four years that lead to the discovery of the Death Star and the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016).
In a pre-recorded video, director and Disney Legend Jon Favreau and producer Dave Filoni introduced the audience to a special sneak peek of Lucasfilm’s The Mandalorian and Grogu, the upcoming Star Wars feature film that will open in theaters on May 22, 2026. Starring Pedro Pascal and Sigourney Weaver, directed by Favreau and produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Favreau, Filoni, and Ian Bryce, this exciting new adventure in the Mandalorian and Grogu’s journey is currently in production.
20th Century Studios
Star and producer Rami Malek hit the stage to share details about the feature film The Amateur and share a special look with fans. The action-packed espionage-thriller opens in theaters April 11, 2025. The crowd was the first to see a new trailer for the film that introduces Charlie Heller (Malek), a brilliant but deeply introverted decoder for the CIA whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack. When his supervisors refuse to take action, he takes matters into his own hands—embarking on a dangerous trek across the globe to track down those responsible.
James Cameron joined fans live from New Zealand to discuss Avatar: Fire and Ash, and shared five new pieces of early concept art from the upcoming film. Avatar: Fire and Ash takes audiences back to Pandora in an immersive new adventure with Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Na’vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and the Sully family. The movie opens exclusively in theaters December 19, 2025.
