Pixar announces Día de los Muertos movie, and more

With the release of “Brave” still two months away, Disney Pixar this week offered up a few choice details about its longer-term plans.

The freshest — and freakiest — news is the addition of an untitled movie based on Día de los Muertos, Mexico’s colorful holiday honoring the dead. The movie will be directed by Lee Unkrich and produced by Darla K. Anderson, who also brought us the brilliant “Toy Story 3.”

There’s no release date yet, but you could pencil it in for 2016, the next open summer on the schedule.

Pixar’s creative guru John Lasseter shared the plans at CinemaCon in Las Vegas this week, and we gathered the details from Entertainment Weekly, Deadline Hollywood and the Los Angeles Times.

Here’s what to expect from Pixar between now and Día de los Muertos:

June 2013: The previously announced “Monsters University,” a prequel that will tell the story of Mike and Sully’s school days as the University of Fear.

Memorial Day 2014: “The Good Dinosaur” explores a world in which dinosaurs never went extinct. It will be directed by Bob Peterson, co-director of “Up” and screenwriter for “Finding Nemo.” This fits perfectly in the Pixar pantheon childish things with deep inner lives — like toys, fish and cars.

June 2015: Pete Docter, director of “Up” and “Monsters Inc.” turns his attention inward in “Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside the Mind.” Here’s how Disney-Pixar described the project: “The inventive new film will take you to a place that everyone knows, but no one has ever seen: the world inside the human mind.” If there’s anyone we’d trust to make this movie, it’s the guy who made “Up” — another movie that was hard to imagine becoming a popular hit (not to mention a deeply moving film).

Disney also released a new trailer for “Brave” this week. Check it out below. The movie will hit theaters June 22.

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