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'''Disney Digital 3-D''' is a brand used by the ] to describe digitally animated ] shown exclusively using ]. It is essentially a Disney brand of ] technology. Disney Digital 3-D is not related to Real D, it is exclusively a production method. Real D, Expand, Master Image and Dolby 3D are all exhibition technologies used to play back 3D movies.
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'''Disney Digital 3-D''' is a ] used by ] to describe ] made and released by ] mostly under the ] label and shown exclusively using ].


Disney Digital 3-D in itself is not a presentation or a production format or technology, but rather purely a marketing concept. Films advertised as Disney Digital 3-D come from a number of sources, film, digital camera as well as animation software, and can be presented using any digital 3D technology, including ], ], ] and ]. There is no specific handling involved.
Disney re-released '']'', three times, in a remastered 3-D version, first on October 20, 2006, and second on October 19, 2007; it was re-released again on October 24, 2008. Disney also released a ] version of its computer-animated feature '']''. Then Disney launched '']'' on February 1, 2008 and on February 27, 2009 '']'', both concert movies in Disney Digital 3-D. The first Disney Digital 3-D movie ever to be made by ] is '']''. Pixar's other films '']'' and '']'' are set for re-releases in Disney Digital 3-D as a double feature on October 2, 2009 and Toy Story 3 to be released June 18, 2010. '']'' will also be in this format sometime in 2010.


==How it works== ==History==
===Pre-2005 Disney 3-D films===
Audiences viewing a film presented by ] are given a pair of plastic 3D glasses. The glasses have circularly ] lenses, each polarized differently. ] allows much greater head movement than linear polarization without loss of 3D effect or ghost images. This increases audience comfort and helps to mitigate the "3D headache" caused by many 3D systems, especially those relying on film projection.
Disney had previously released two 3D animated shorts in 1953, '']'', the first American 3D animated short,<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.mouseplanet.com/8968/The_Original_Disney_3D |title= The Original Disney 3-D |work= MousePlanet |date= September 16, 2009 |access-date= October 9, 2012}}</ref> and '']'', starring ] and ].


Disney also produced 3D films for its theme parks, including ]'s ''3D Jamboree'' (1956), featuring the '']'' Mouseketeers and including ''Melody'' and ''Working for Peanuts''; '']'' (1982), '']'' (1986), '']'' (1991), '']'' (1994), '']'' (1998), the film portion of ]'s Magic Lamp Theater, and '']'' (2003).<ref>{{cite web |url= http://cdn.d23.disney.go.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/azsupp_082712.pdf |title= Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia supplement |first1= Dave |last1= Smith |author-link= Dave Smith (archivist) |publisher= The Walt Disney Company |date= August 1, 2012 |access-date= October 9, 2012 |archive-date= May 11, 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130511014536/http://cdn.d23.disney.go.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/azsupp_082712.pdf |url-status= dead }}</ref>
The movie is projected digitally, with a single ], ] or ] ] Cinema projector (other digital projection technologies would work as well if fitted with the proper equipment) at 144 frames per second, six times as fast as a normal movie. Every 1/24 of a second (the projection frame rate for normal 2D movies on film) the two scene views called "right eye" and "left eye" are each shown 3 times (6 flashes of image on the screen matching the 6 times higher projection rate). Due to ], the 72 image frames and 72 black frames fed to each eye in a given second should be perceived as a relatively flicker-free image. Due to the low original framerate, the channel separation isn't optimal during horizontal camera movements which results in minor ghosting effects.


Between 2003 and 2005, Dimension Films (then-owned by ]) had made a couple of 3D films. Two of them were '']'' and '']''.
In front of the projector lens sits the Z-Screen, an electronic device developed by Lenny Lipton from Stereographics. It inserts a polarizing screen that matches the polarization of either the right lens or left lens of the glasses worn by the audience. When the left-eye-matching Z-Screen is in place, the viewer's right eye sees nothing at all (or almost nothing) while the left eye sees a normal looking frame. For the next frame of the movie, the Z-Screen swaps the polarizing screen to match the right eye lens in the glasses worn by the audience. Now the audience sees nothing (or nearly nothing) with the left eye and a normal but slightly shifted version of the frame in the right eye. The brain knits together the alternating left-right perspectives into a seamless 3D view of the movie scene.


===Post-2005 Disney 3-D films===
The single projector setup has a number of advantages over previous 3D systems:
The first Disney Digital 3-D film was '']'', which was released in late 2005.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Walt Disney Studios and Dolby Bring Disney Digital 3D(TM) to Selected Theaters Nationwide With CHICKEN LITTLE on Dolby Digital Cinema|url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=149089|access-date=September 3, 2011|newspaper=PR Newswire|date=June 27, 2011}}</ref> For the release, Disney collaborated with RealD to install RealD's 3D digital projection system featuring Christie CP2000 2K ] projectors along with silver screens for 84 screens in U.S. theaters.<ref name = "Hollywood Reporter">{{cite web | date = March 7, 2007 | author = Carolyn Giardina | title = New dimension at Real D | url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003554469 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181331/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003554469 | archive-date = September 30, 2007 | work = HollywoodReporter.com | access-date = 2007-03-12}}</ref>
* It eliminates most "ghost images" caused by the left eye seeing a bit of the right-eye frames and vice versa.
* It eliminates any form of temporal (time) or spatial misalignment of the left-eye and right-eye frames that plagued previous 3D projection systems relying on movie film. The mechanical jitter of the film in the projector and the poor frame-to-frame matchup generated most of the dull headache 3D side effect caused by the eye muscle strain — along with the much improved, but still slightly flawed, horizontal/vertical polarization system seen for the last 20 years or so in motion simulation amusement rides, IMAX 3D and in limited other venues (Walt Disney World, Disneyland etc.).


The animated film ''Chicken Little'' was followed by a re-release of '']'' on October 20, 2006, a 1993 ] film distributed by ], was originally shot in 2D on 35mm-film to digitally remastered with the 3D version generated by ] from this source using computer technology.
The main trouble with polarized 3D systems for movies is a loss of screen brightness. The polarizing screen in front of the projector blocks half of the outgoing light, causing an equivalent loss of brightness on the screen. However, in this system, a silver screen is used {{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}, which reflects the projected light without changing its circular polarization so that the light from each image is able to pass through the viewer's left or right lens with no further loss of brightness. However, half of all other ambient and reflected (i.e. non-polarized) light in the theater is blocked by the polarizing lenses of the viewer's glasses. Therefore, the viewer perceives an overall dimming by 50%, but no loss of contrast between the screen and its surroundings. The overall effect is that of wearing a pair of slightly darkened glasses in a standard movie theater. The fact that only one eye is seeing an image at any given moment has no bearing on the perceived brightness of the movie, as the human brain does not process brightness by adding the contribution from each eye. This fact becomes evident if one performs the simple experiment of closing one eye and noting that the brightness of one's surroundings has not changed. In physical terms, brightness is based on light intensity, which is measured in units of power per unit area, and is thus unaffected by the size or number of sensors, assuming they are all equidistant from the light source.


In 2007, Disney re-released the film '']'' with the theatrical release of the 3D version of '']''.
== Confusion ==


The first live-action Disney Digital 3-D release was '']'', which followed in 2008. In 2009, '']'' became the first film in Disney Digital 3-D from producer ]. The 2011 film '']'', also produced by Bruckheimer as well as directed by ], was one of the first big adventure films to shoot in 3D on location in jungles, beaches, and the streets of 18th-century London rather than against green screen or entirely on soundstages.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120131161944/http://media-file.net/7/onstrangertides/images/PIRATES%204%20PRESS%20KIT%20FINAL.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2024}}</ref>
Disney Digital 3D is not a presentation format. Disney Digital 3D is a production process. It is not a version of Real D, and is completely independant of Real D. Disney 3D movies can be presented using the Expand, Real D, Master Image or Dolby 3D system and the studio is officially agnostic to which one is used. This article is very misleading. <ref> http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=149089 </ref>


On May 29, 2009, Disney released ]'s '']'', the first Pixar film to be presented in 3-D. This film was then followed by a 3-D ] re-release of '']'' and '']'' on October 2, 2009, although neither of these films' animations was altered. Subsequent Pixar films, such as '']'' and '']'', were also released in Disney Digital 3-D.
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Two of Disney's traditionally animated films were reissued with 3D conversions in 2011; '']'' – released on August 26 internationally and on September 16 in North America,<ref>{{cite news|last=McClintock|first=Pamela|title=Disney's 'The Lion King' to Return to Theaters in Digital 3D|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-s-lion-king-return-192621|access-date=May 26, 2011|newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter|date=May 26, 2011}}</ref> and '']'' – limited to 13-day run in September at the ] in Los Angeles for North America, as well as short runs in New Zealand, Japan, Australia, India and Spain in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|last=Stewart |first=Andrew |url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118041220?refCatId=13 |title='Beauty 3D' to single screen |publisher=Variety.com |date=August 11, 2011 |access-date=August 18, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hoyts.com.au/Movies/details/Beauty_and_the_Beast_3D.aspx |title=(3D) Beauty and the Beast at Hoyts Cinemas |publisher=Hoyts.com.au |access-date=August 15, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809153444/http://www.hoyts.com.au/Movies/details/Beauty_and_the_Beast_3D.aspx |archive-date=August 9, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> These re-releases were being supervised by ], who produced both films. ''Beauty and the Beast'' in 3D received a wider release on January 13, 2012. Two more films were reissued in 3D in 2012; '']'' on September 14 and '']'' on December 19. '']'' was going to be re-released in 3D on September 13, 2013, but was cancelled due to the underperformances of the other Disney 3D re-releases until further notice. The 3D version of ''The Little Mermaid'' did, however, play for a limited engagement at the El Capitan Theatre from September to October 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hollywood's El Capitan Will Be the Only Theatre in the World to Screen THE LITTLE MERMAID 3D, 9/13-10/13|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmovies/article/Hollywoods-El-Capitan-Will-Be-Only-Theatre-in-the-World-to-Screen-THE-LITTLE-MERMAID-3D-913-1013-20130827|author=Oliver Oliveros|date=August 27, 2013|access-date=November 9, 2018}}</ref>
! Title !! Original release || 3-D release !! Notes

==List of Disney Digital 3-D films==
===Feature films===
====Original releases====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! width=385px | Title
|'']'' || 2005 || 2005 || digitally animated film rerendered for 3-D
! width=125px | Release date
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|'']'' || 1993 (Touchstone) || 2006 || ] film remastered for 3-D
|- |-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| November 4, 2005
|'']'' || 2007 || 2007 || digitally animated film rerendered for 3-D
|- |-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| March 30, 2007
|'']'' || 2008 || 2008 || Concert tour directly recorded in 3-D. First Disney Digital 3-D release to see a 3-D home video release.
|- |-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| February 1, 2008
|'']'' || 2008 || 2008 || digitally animated film rerendered for 3-D
|- |-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| November 21, 2008
|'']'' || 2009 || 2009 || Concert tour directly recorded in 3-D. First Disney Digital 3-D release to see an IMAX 3-D release. Available on home video in 3-D exclusively on ].
|- |-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| February 27, 2009
|'']'' || 2009 || 2009 || Pixar's first 3-D feature film.
|- |-
|'']'' || 2009 || 2009 || Disney's first live-action 3-D film. | '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| May 29, 2009
|- |-
|'']'' || 1995 || 2009 || | '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| July 24, 2009
|- |-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| November 6, 2009
|'']'' || 1999 || 2009 ||
|- |-
|'']''|| style="text-align:right;"| March 5, 2010
|'']'' || 2009 || 2009 || Also to be presented in IMAX 3-D.
|- |-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| June 18, 2010
|'']''|| 1991 || 2010 ||
|- |-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| November 24, 2010
|'']'' || 2010 || 2010 || Also to be presented in IMAX 3-D.
|- |-
|'']'' || 2010 || 2010 || | '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| December 17, 2010
|- |-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| March 11, 2011
|'']'' || 2010 || 2010 || Also to be presented in IMAX 3-D.
|- |-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| May 20, 2011
|'']'' || 1997 || 2010 ||
|- |-
|'']'' || 2011 || 2011 || | '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| June 24, 2011
|- |-
|'']'' ||2011 || 2011 || | '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| March 9, 2012
|- |-
|'']'' || 1994 || 2011 || | '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| June 22, 2012
|- |-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| October 5, 2012
|'']'' || 2011 || 2011 ||
|- |-
|'']'' || 2012 || 2012 || | '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| October 23, 2012 (Blu-ray)
|- |-
|'']'' || 2012 || 2012 || | '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| November 2, 2012
|- |-
|'']'' || 2012 || 2012 || | '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| March 8, 2013
|- |-
|'']'' || 1992 || 2012 || | '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| June 21, 2013
|- |-
|'']'' || 2013 || 2013 || | '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| August 9, 2013
|- |-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| November 27, 2013
|'']'' || 2001 || 2013 ||
|- |-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| February 13, 2014 (international)<ref>{{cite web|title=Mareel - Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy 3D|url=http://www.mareel.org/watch/cinema-listings/film-tinkerbell-3d/|publisher=Mareel|access-date=April 16, 2023}}</ref> <br /> April 1, 2014 (])
|'']'' || 2013 || 2013 ||
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| May 30, 2014
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| July 18, 2014
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| November 7, 2014
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| March 3, 2015 (Vudu)
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| June 19, 2015
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| November 25, 2015
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| January 29, 2016
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| March 4, 2016
|-
|'']'' || style="text-align:right;"| April 15, 2016
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| May 27, 2016
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| June 17, 2016
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| July 1, 2016
|-
|'']'' || style="text-align:right;"| August 12, 2016
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| November 23, 2016
|-
|'']''|| style="text-align:right;"| March 17, 2017
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| May 26, 2017
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| June 16, 2017
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| November 22, 2017
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| March 9, 2018
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| June 15, 2018
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| November 2, 2018
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| November 21, 2018
|-
|'']''|| style="text-align:right;"| March 29, 2019
|-
|'']''|| style="text-align:right;"| May 24, 2019
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| June 21, 2019
|-
|'']''|| style="text-align:right;"| July 19, 2019
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| October 18, 2019
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| November 22, 2019
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;"| March 6, 2020
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;|September 4, 2020
|-
| '']'' || style="text-align:right;| December 25, 2020 (countries without Disney+)
|-
| '']'' || style= "text-align:right;| March 5, 2021
|-
| '']'' || style= "text-align:right;| June 18, 2021 (countries without Disney+)
|-
| '']'' || style= "text-align:right;| July 30, 2021
|-
| '']'' || style= "text-align:right;| November 24, 2021
|-
| '']'' || style= "text-align:right;| March 11, 2022 (countries without Disney+)
|-
| '']'' || style= "text-align:right;| June 17, 2022
|-
|'']'' || style= "text-align:right;| November 23, 2022
|-
|'']'' || style= "text-align:right;| May 26, 2023
|-
|'']'' || style= "text-align:right;| June 16, 2023
|-
|'']'' || style= "text-align:right;| November 22, 2023
|-
|'']'' || style= "text-align:right;| June 14, 2024
|-
|'']'' || style= "text-align:right;| November 27, 2024
|-
|'']'' || style= "text-align:right;| December 20, 2024
|} |}


====References==== ====Reissues====
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| '']'' (1993) || style="text-align:right;" | October 20, 2006
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| '']'' (1995) and '']'' (1999) (respectively) || style="text-align:right;" | October 2, 2009
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| '']'' (1994) || style="text-align:right;" | September 16, 2011
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| '']'' (1991) || style="text-align:right;" | October 4, 2011 (Blu-ray); January 13, 2012
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| '']'' (2003) || style="text-align:right;" | September 14, 2012
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| '']'' (2001) || style="text-align:right;" | December 19, 2012
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| '']'' (1989) || style="text-align:right; | October 1, 2013 (Blu-ray)
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| '']'' (2006) || style="text-align:right; | October 29, 2013 (Blu-ray)
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| '']'' (2007) || style="text-align:right; | July 16, 2014 (Blu-ray; Region B only)
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=== Short films ===
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== References ==
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Product typeMotion picture exhibition
OwnerThe Walt Disney Company
IntroducedJune 23, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-06-23)

Disney Digital 3-D is a brand name used by The Walt Disney Company to describe three-dimensional films made and released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures mostly under the Walt Disney Pictures label and shown exclusively using digital projection.

Disney Digital 3-D in itself is not a presentation or a production format or technology, but rather purely a marketing concept. Films advertised as Disney Digital 3-D come from a number of sources, film, digital camera as well as animation software, and can be presented using any digital 3D technology, including RealD 3D, Dolby 3D, XpanD 3D and MasterImage 3D. There is no specific handling involved.

History

Pre-2005 Disney 3-D films

Disney had previously released two 3D animated shorts in 1953, Adventures in Music: Melody, the first American 3D animated short, and Working for Peanuts, starring Donald Duck and Chip 'n' Dale.

Disney also produced 3D films for its theme parks, including Disneyland's 3D Jamboree (1956), featuring the Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeers and including Melody and Working for Peanuts; Magic Journeys (1982), Captain EO (1986), Muppet*Vision 3D (1991), Honey, I Shrunk the Audience (1994), It's Tough to Be a Bug! (1998), the film portion of Tokyo DisneySea's Magic Lamp Theater, and Mickey's PhilharMagic (2003).

Between 2003 and 2005, Dimension Films (then-owned by The Walt Disney Company) had made a couple of 3D films. Two of them were Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over and The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D.

Post-2005 Disney 3-D films

The first Disney Digital 3-D film was Chicken Little, which was released in late 2005. For the release, Disney collaborated with RealD to install RealD's 3D digital projection system featuring Christie CP2000 2K DLP projectors along with silver screens for 84 screens in U.S. theaters.

The animated film Chicken Little was followed by a re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas on October 20, 2006, a 1993 stop-motion film distributed by Touchstone Pictures, was originally shot in 2D on 35mm-film to digitally remastered with the 3D version generated by Industrial Light and Magic from this source using computer technology.

In 2007, Disney re-released the film Working for Peanuts with the theatrical release of the 3D version of Meet the Robinsons.

The first live-action Disney Digital 3-D release was Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert, which followed in 2008. In 2009, G-Force became the first film in Disney Digital 3-D from producer Jerry Bruckheimer. The 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, also produced by Bruckheimer as well as directed by Rob Marshall, was one of the first big adventure films to shoot in 3D on location in jungles, beaches, and the streets of 18th-century London rather than against green screen or entirely on soundstages.

On May 29, 2009, Disney released Pixar's Up, the first Pixar film to be presented in 3-D. This film was then followed by a 3-D double feature re-release of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 on October 2, 2009, although neither of these films' animations was altered. Subsequent Pixar films, such as Toy Story 3 and Cars 2, were also released in Disney Digital 3-D.

Two of Disney's traditionally animated films were reissued with 3D conversions in 2011; The Lion King – released on August 26 internationally and on September 16 in North America, and Beauty and the Beast – limited to 13-day run in September at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles for North America, as well as short runs in New Zealand, Japan, Australia, India and Spain in 2010. These re-releases were being supervised by Don Hahn, who produced both films. Beauty and the Beast in 3D received a wider release on January 13, 2012. Two more films were reissued in 3D in 2012; Finding Nemo on September 14 and Monsters, Inc. on December 19. The Little Mermaid was going to be re-released in 3D on September 13, 2013, but was cancelled due to the underperformances of the other Disney 3D re-releases until further notice. The 3D version of The Little Mermaid did, however, play for a limited engagement at the El Capitan Theatre from September to October 2013.

List of Disney Digital 3-D films

Feature films

Original releases

Title Release date
Chicken Little November 4, 2005
Meet the Robinsons March 30, 2007
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert February 1, 2008
Bolt November 21, 2008
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience February 27, 2009
Up May 29, 2009
G-Force July 24, 2009
A Christmas Carol November 6, 2009
Alice in Wonderland March 5, 2010
Toy Story 3 June 18, 2010
Tangled November 24, 2010
Tron: Legacy December 17, 2010
Mars Needs Moms March 11, 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides May 20, 2011
Cars 2 June 24, 2011
John Carter March 9, 2012
Brave June 22, 2012
Frankenweenie October 5, 2012
Secret of the Wings October 23, 2012 (Blu-ray)
Wreck-It Ralph November 2, 2012
Oz the Great and Powerful March 8, 2013
Monsters University June 21, 2013
Planes August 9, 2013
Frozen November 27, 2013
The Pirate Fairy February 13, 2014 (international)
April 1, 2014 (Vudu)
Maleficent May 30, 2014
Planes: Fire & Rescue July 18, 2014
Big Hero 6 November 7, 2014
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast March 3, 2015 (Vudu)
Inside Out June 19, 2015
The Good Dinosaur November 25, 2015
The Finest Hours January 29, 2016
Zootopia March 4, 2016
The Jungle Book April 15, 2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass May 27, 2016
Finding Dory June 17, 2016
The BFG July 1, 2016
Pete's Dragon August 12, 2016
Moana November 23, 2016
Beauty and the Beast March 17, 2017
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales May 26, 2017
Cars 3 June 16, 2017
Coco November 22, 2017
A Wrinkle in Time March 9, 2018
Incredibles 2 June 15, 2018
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms November 2, 2018
Ralph Breaks the Internet November 21, 2018
Dumbo March 29, 2019
Aladdin May 24, 2019
Toy Story 4 June 21, 2019
The Lion King July 19, 2019
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil October 18, 2019
Frozen II November 22, 2019
Onward March 6, 2020
Mulan September 4, 2020
Soul December 25, 2020 (countries without Disney+)
Raya and the Last Dragon March 5, 2021
Luca June 18, 2021 (countries without Disney+)
Jungle Cruise July 30, 2021
Encanto November 24, 2021
Turning Red March 11, 2022 (countries without Disney+)
Lightyear June 17, 2022
Strange World November 23, 2022
The Little Mermaid May 26, 2023
Elemental June 16, 2023
Wish November 22, 2023
Inside Out 2 June 14, 2024
Moana 2 November 27, 2024
Mufasa: The Lion King December 20, 2024

Reissues

Title Release date
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) October 20, 2006
Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 2 (1999) (respectively) October 2, 2009
The Lion King (1994) September 16, 2011
Beauty and the Beast (1991) October 4, 2011 (Blu-ray); January 13, 2012
Finding Nemo (2003) September 14, 2012
Monsters, Inc. (2001) December 19, 2012
The Little Mermaid (1989) October 1, 2013 (Blu-ray)
Cars (2006) October 29, 2013 (Blu-ray)
Ratatouille (2007) July 16, 2014 (Blu-ray; Region B only)

Short films

Original releases

Title Release date Released with
Knick Knack October 20, 2006 The Nightmare Before Christmas
Working for Peanuts March 30, 2007 Meet the Robinsons
Tokyo Mater (Pixar Animation Studios) December 12, 2008 Bolt (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
Partly Cloudy May 29, 2009 Up
Day & Night June 18, 2010 Toy Story 3
Hawaiian Vacation June 24, 2011 Cars 2
Air Mater November 1, 2011 Cars 2 Blu-ray
Tangled Ever After January 13, 2012 Beauty and the Beast
La Luna June 22, 2012 Brave
Small Fry July 26, 2012 Vudu release
Partysaurus Rex September 14, 2012 Finding Nemo
Paperman November 2, 2012 Wreck-It Ralph
For the Birds December 19, 2012 Monsters, Inc.
The Blue Umbrella June 21, 2013 Monsters University
Get a Horse! November 27, 2013 Frozen
Feast November 7, 2014 Big Hero 6
Lava June 19, 2015 Inside Out
Sanjay's Super Team November 25, 2015 The Good Dinosaur
Piper June 17, 2016 Finding Dory
Inner Workings November 23, 2016 Moana
Lou June 16, 2017 Cars 3
Olaf's Frozen Adventure (Walt Disney Animation Studios) November 22, 2017 Coco (Pixar)
Bao June 15, 2018 Incredibles 2
Maggie Simpson in Playdate with Destiny (20th Century Animation) March 6, 2020 Onward (Pixar)
Burrow December 25, 2020 (countries without Disney+) Soul
Us Again March 5, 2021 Raya and the Last Dragon
Far from the Tree November 24, 2021 Encanto
Carl's Date June 16, 2023 Elemental

See also

References

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