John Lasseter will direct.
Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) in 1995's Toy Story
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Disney-Pixar will release Toy Story 4 on June 2017, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced Thursday during an earnings call about the company.
John Lasseter, who directed 1995's Toy Story — Pixar's inaugural feature film — and 1998's Toy Story 2, will return to direct the fourth film.
From a financial standpoint, the decision to make another Toy Story movie makes enormous sense. In 2010, Toy Story 3 became Pixar's most successful film worldwide, with $1.06 billion in global box office — in fact, it is second only to Frozen among the highest grossing animated feature films of all time. All told, the three Toy Story films account for nearly $2 billion in worldwide grosses — and that's not counting home video sales and merchandising revenue.
The film's main story, however, seemingly brought the journey of Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), and the rest of the film's characters to a conclusion of sorts — with their owner Andy going off to college and leaving them with a new child, a young girl named Bonnie. But Pixar has returned to the characters in a series of short films — the latest of which, Toy Story That Time Forgot, debuts on ABC on Dec. 2.
Iger, however, gave no details about the planned storyline for Toy Story 4, and representatives for Disney did not immediately respond to an inquiry about who from the film's voice cast was set to return for the film.
The announcement, meanwhile, further fills out Pixar's upcoming slate of feature films. Inside Out will open on June 19, 2015, followed by The Good Dinosaur on Nov. 25, 2015, and Finding Dory, a sequel to 2003's Finding Nemo, on June 17, 2016.
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