CinemaCon 2025 - Disney

'Avatar: Fire & Ash' looks awesome, but there's still no hint as to how 'Zootopia 2' will maintain its predecessor's topicality amid a reversal of the company's 2010s-era #resistance narrative.

Disney’s presentation got off to an amusing start with the “live-action” Stitch rampaging through recent and upcoming Disney flicks. It’s akin to how Lilo & Stitch sold itself in 2002. And Alan Bergman immediately bringing up Andrew Cripps, recently fired from Warner Bros. Discovery despite a pretty stellar track record, was (intentional or not) a nice shot at one of their two biggest rivals. Cripps noted that Disney’s films were exclusively in theaters for longer than other studios. That is A) true and B) a return to form after Bob Chapek’s reign did massive damage by treating the animated films as either SVOD titles (the Pixar flicks) or “barely theatrical with hybrid releases or tiny windows before Disney+ release (the Walt Disney Animation flicks).