{"id":386316,"date":"2025-08-31T02:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T02:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/386316\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T02:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T02:51:14","slug":"disney-unveils-new-animated-film-hexed-sets-2026-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/386316\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Unveils New Animated Film &#8216;Hexed,&#8217; Sets 2026 Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWalt <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/disney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disney\" data-tag=\"disney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disney<\/a> Animation Studios has unveiled the title and logline for its latest original film: \u201cHexed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDisney Animation\u2019s chief creative officer, Jared Bush, revealed the project Saturday during Destination D23: A Journey Around the Worlds of Disney in Orlando, Fla.. Josie Trinidad (\u201cZootopia+\u201d) and Jason Hand (\u201cMoana 2\u201d) are set to direct the film, while Roy Conli and Juan Pablo Reyes Lancaster-Jones will serve as producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe official logline for \u201cHexed\u201d reads, \u201cAn awkward teenage boy and his Type-A mom discover that what makes him unusual, might just be magical powers that will turn their lives and a secret world of magic, upside down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cHexed\u201d is set to hit theaters in November 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAlso during the presentation, Disney\u2019s sister company, Pixar, shared a sneak peek of their upcoming original comedy \u201cHoppers,\u201d which is set to hit theaters in March 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAccording to the official logline, the \u201caction adventure follows Mabel, a nature loving college student whose mission to bring the animals back to a glade that\u2019s very important to her is at direct odds with the mayor\u2019s plan to build a highway through it. When a new technology allows her to \u2018hop\u2019 into the body of a robotic beaver, wild surprises await.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDaniel Chong (\u201cWe Bare Bears: The Movie\u201d) is set to direct, while Nicole Paradis Grindle will produce. Piper Curda (\u201cI Didn\u2019t Do It\u201d) and Bobby Moynihan (\u201cSaturday Night Live) are set to star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOther projects teased during Destination D23 include \u201cToy Story 5,\u201d \u201cTron: Ares,\u201d \u201cZootopia 2\u201d and \u201cIce Age: Boiling Point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walt Disney Animation Studios has unveiled the title and logline for its latest original film: \u201cHexed.\u201d Disney Animation\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[823,77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-386316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-disney","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115121113326085809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}