Here is a recap of all the big news coming out of the first day of New York Comic Con.
Disney Release Dates
The biggest news at New York Comic-Con was not made at the convention at all. To celebrate reaching $4 billion in box office, Disney announced several new release dates for Disney Animation, Pixar, Disney live-action fairy tales, and Marvel Studios. As part of the release, Marvel announced they are working on a sequel to Ant-Man entitled Ant-Man and the Wasp which will be released July 6, 2018.
For those keeping track, here is Disney’s current release schedule:
The Good Dinosaur 11/25/15
Star Wars: The Force Awakens 12/18/15
The Finest Hours 1/29/16
Zootopia 3/4/16
The Jungle Book (2016) 4/15/16
A Beautiful Planet 4/29/16
Captain America: Civil War 5/6/16
Alice Through the Looking Glass 5/27/16
Finding Dory 6/17/16
The BFG 7/1/16
Pete’s Dragon 8/12/16
Doctor Strange 11/4/16
Moana 11/23/16
Rogue One 12/16/16
Beauty and the Beast (2017) 3/17/17
Ghost in the Shell (2017) 3/31/17
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 5/5/17
Star Wars: Episode VIII 5/26/17
Cars 3 6/16/17
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales 7/7/17
Thor: Ragnarok 11/3/17
Coco 11/22/17
Untitled Disney Fairy-Tale (2017) [Live Action] 12/22/17
Black Panther 2/16/18
Gigantic 3/9/18
Avengers: Infinity War Part I 5/4/18
Untitled Han Solo Star Wars Anthology Film 5/25/18
Toy Story 4 6/15/18
Ant-Man and the Wasp 7/6/18
Untitled Disney Fairy-Tale (2018) [Live Action] 11/2/18
Captain Marvel 3/8/19
Untitled Disneytoon Movie (2019) 4/12/19
Avengers: Infinity War Part II 5/3/19
The Incredibles 2 6/21/19
Inhumans 7/12/19
Untitled Disney Fairy-Tale (2019) [Live Action] 11/8/19
Untitled Pixar Animation (March 2020) 3/13/20
Untitled Marvel Movie (May 2020) 5/1/20
Untitled Pixar Animation (June 2020) 6/19/20
Untitled Marvel Movie (July 2020) 7/10/20
Untitled Marvel Movie (November 2020) 11/6/20
Untitled Disney Animation (Nov 2020) 11/25/20
I would expect additional Lucasfilm films to be announced at a future date.
Star Wars Rebels
At a panel featuring Dave Filoni (executive producer), Taylor Gray (“Ezra Bridger”), Ashley Eckstein (“Ahsoka Tano”) and Sarah Michelle Gellar (“Seventh Sister”) from Disney XD’s Star Wars Rebels, they premiered a new trailer and shared a new clip from the upcoming second season. Star Wars Rebels returns to Disney XD on Wednesday, October 14 at 930 ET/PT.
Disney Infinity
Ahead of their panel, Disney Infinity released details of their upcoming Marvel Battlegrounds Play Set. This new play set will feature four-player gameplay for the first time. In the original storyline, Ultron teams up with Loki in an effort to steal Asgard’s immensely powerful Infinity Stone. To accomplish this, Ultron and Loki create robotic replicas of the famed Marvel Super Heroes and turn them against each other in an effort to distract them while they commit their crime. The Marvel Super Heroes duplicates battle each other in iconic environments such as a wrecked Brooklyn train yard, Wakanda and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Lunar Base, culminating in a universe-shaking battle against Ultron.
They also revealed a new Captain America: The First Avenger figure that will feature new abilities.
Marvel Battlegrounds will be available in March.