When does Gatto premiere? March 5, 2027 — Casarosa’s Venice cat-mob Pixar (Ruffalo/Fishburne). Moved from June 18. Not Luca 2; not a countryside fable.
Current target date: Friday, March 5, 2027 (Theatrical premiere). We update this page when studios or publishers move the window.
Gatto opens March 5, 2027 (Pixar/Disney). Casarosa/Warren; Ruffalo=Nero, Fishburne=Rocco; Venice feline underworld. Moved from Jun 18 2027. ≠ Luca 2; ≠ countryside boy+cat.
Theatrical premiere
Friday, March 5, 2027
March 5, 2027 — Pixar’s Venetian cat mob lands early spring
Gatto opens Friday, March 5, 2027. Casarosa and Warren’s follow-up to Luca trades Portorosso sunshine for canal-night superstition: Nero (Ruffalo) owes Rocco (Fishburne) and stumbles into a friendship that rewrites what a stray’s life is for.
Teaser footage leans painterly — brushstroke textures over classic Pixar polish — framed as a deliberate aesthetic experiment. June 18, 2027 is the abandoned summer stub after Disney slid the film forward.
Confirmed: Mar 5 Venice cat feature — not Jun 18, not Luca 2, not countryside fable
Confirmed: March 5, 2027 theatrical; Casarosa/Warren; Ruffalo/Fishburne; Venice feline underworld; original story. Not confirmed as still June 18, 2027, as a Luca sequel, or as “boy and cat in the Italian countryside” (outdated catalog blurbs). Fake Aristocats remake dates are wrong IP.
Where Gatto unlocks
Cinemas only on the Pixar site pitch — spring Friday.
- Theatrical
- March 5, 2027 (Disney / Pixar)
- Earlier stub
- June 18, 2027 (superseded)
- Director / producer
- Enrico Casarosa / Andrea Warren
- Nero / Rocco
- Mark Ruffalo / Laurence Fishburne
- Setting
- Feline Venice underworld
- Look
- Painterly / storybook departure from CG gloss
Before March — don’t book the wrong Italian Pixar
- March 5, 2027 is live; June 18 is dead.
- Expect cat mob Venice, not Luca sea-monster kids.
- Hoppers-style early March Pixar window — plan spring, not summer.
- Shrek 5 / Beyond the Spider-Verse were the June traffic Disney dodged.
- Ignore “boy + cat countryside” descriptions still floating from early stubs.
Pixar yanked Gatto out of June so it wouldn’t fight Spider-Verse and Shrek on the same calendar — then put cats in March
June 18, 2027 looked like a normal Pixar summer. Then Beyond the Spider-Verse and Shrek 5 crowded the season, and Disney moved Gatto to March 5, 2027 — same early-spring logic that worked for Hoppers. The SEO mistake is leaving June on the countdown.
Pair that with Casarosa’s brushstroke Venice and Ruffalo-vs-Fishburne cat hierarchy, and the page stops reading like a generic “Italian Pixar TBA.”
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about this release date.
1When does Gatto open?
March 5, 2027 in theaters from Disney/Pixar. It was previously dated June 18, 2027; Disney pulled it earlier (Dec 2025) to avoid stacking against Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse and Shrek 5. Ignore June 18 scrapers.
2Who directs, and who voices the cats?
Enrico Casarosa directs; Andrea Warren produces — the Luca pairing. Mark Ruffalo voices Nero, a scrappy black Venetian stray; Laurence Fishburne voices Rocco, the feline mob boss. Casarosa himself voices slapstick pigeon Saverio.
3What’s the movie about?
Nero questions whether he’s lived the right lives after years maneuvering superstitious Venice, indebted to Rocco, then forced into an unexpected friendship (including a human street artist, Maya, in current materials) that may give him purpose — unless the canals win.
4Is it Luca 2 or a boy-and-cat countryside story?
Neither. Original Venice cat-mob comedy from the Luca filmmakers — not a Luca sequel, and not a pastoral “boy adopts kitten” fable. Aristocats remake chatter is a different Disney lane.
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