Live Updates From Disney’s Mega Film and TV Panel at D23 2026 🔴

Elsa gets a curious message in the form of a frozen butterfly in Arendelle. It’s Anna’s wedding night, and they are summoned away to investigate. Everyone goes with them, and they run into – someone. Someone who called them. She’s got thin fingers with black fingernails and says she’s been waiting to meet the sisters. Her whole cape is make of black ice.

We don’t find out who she is, and there’s a bit more Olaf humor to it but I’m now covered in confetti and need to stop typing.

Hope you’ve enjoyed the live blog everyone!

Anna is finally marrying Kristoff in Frozen III and Olaf falls in love too. It’s Samantha, of course. Josh Gad is now on stage, singing a love story to her. It’s upbeat and funny.

Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel just sang a brief selection of a new song from Frozen III. 

Sorry, I’m a little bit distracted by Star Wars and Marvel. I figure that’s what you all want.

We just saw a new trailer for Hexed, though, and now Jodie freaking Foster is here. She’s the villain of the film.

It’s called Clay and it’s about a ball of clay. Kieran Culkin is voicing the mentor type charater to the clay. It’s out November 2028. Looks fun.

Meet Clay and Mooshy from Disney's Clay, starring Kieran Culkin, in this new concept art and coming to theaters November 2028. #D23 pic.twitter.com/4JTaeupykU

— Disney Animation (@DisneyAnimation) August 15, 2026

It’s officially in the works, keying off the end credits scene from Zootopia 2. Yes, it’s going to the birds.

🚨 Just announced at #D23 🚨
The world of Zootopia is about to go to the birds…

Zootopia 3 is officially in the works! pic.twitter.com/MLnlXM1RHk

— Disney Animation (@DisneyAnimation) August 15, 2026

And you can read all about it at this link.

Ryan Gosling is Kade Auberon.

Experience Star Wars: Starfighter, starring Ryan Gosling, only in theaters May 28, 2027. pic.twitter.com/hoFlXv8nLL

— Star Wars (@starwars) August 15, 2026

Panel now wrapping up with Disney Animation Studios

Starting with footage of Ryan Gosling from the Mickey Mouse Club... LOL

How D23 of them.

Let’s go

This is getting crazy. SO much so fast.

Ahsoka Season two now

Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, the leader and founder of the X-Men
Xavier – Christopher Abbot
Emma Frost – Samara Weaving
Rogue – Inde Naverette
Storm – Maya Boyd
Adam Driver – Mr Sinister

It’s out May 2028.

Chris Evans, Haylet Atwell and Robert Downey Jr. just showed a new trailer.

He asks if they need any help rounding out the cast. “Deadpool” is off-screen, prompting him.

Note: He wasn’t “Here,” he was on screen. Apologies. I was excited.

Wow, this looks great. Look for more in our full post.

Welcome home, Vision.

Loading….Marvel Television’s #VisionQuest, arriving October 14 only on Disney+. pic.twitter.com/wWTpyIsbVa

— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) August 15, 2026

Paul Bettany and James Spader are here. Feige describes it as the third in a trilogy: WandaVision, Agatha All Along and now, Vision Quest.

What, and perhaps who, is Vision? asks Bettany. So, of course, he turns to Ultron. And now the trailer.

Kevin Feige takes the stage

And he actaully got cheered! (Sorry Jon, love you, not Mando and Grogu.)

He’s announcing the 3-part Oswald miniseries coming to Disney+ in February 2027. It’s all hand-drawn 2D animation, lots of which is done by older Disney animators as well as new ones.

He showed a brief teaser of the character causing havoc in Walt’s office. It didn’t LOOK 2D but we’ll see.

From there, he spoke about his new National Geographic project, Lion.

And it’s not for Marvel (yet). It’s for Kathryn Hahn, here for the Tangled live-action movie. They showed a brief scene of a whole lot of hair on stairs. Also there were lantners floating all over the arena. It’s coming out on March 31, 2028.

After Bluey we got to see Denis Leary and Queen Latifah (yeah!) talk about Ice Age: Boiling Point (boo!), which went into a live performance from The Greatest Showman: The Musical which is coming to the West End.

One hour down. One hour (ish) to go.

Still to come: Disney Animation, Marvel, Lucasfilm, etc.

After a quick tease of Lilo and Stitch 2 (coming in May 2028), Romy and Michele 2 (including a hilarious intro with Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino), and Percy Jackson season three, the Jonas Brothers hit the stage to talk about Camp Rock 3.

Then a Camp Rock 3 performance, teaser trailer for The Bluey Movie.

In Spring 2028, Pixar will release another original film called Ghost Market. In the clip, we saw a young content creator from Chicago who is forced to go to Hawaii on vacation with his mom. There, he stumbles upon an isolated market and realizes that it’s haunted.

We then saw a scene shot horizontally, like he’s on his phone, talking about the movie. “It’s good, you’ll like it” he said before being chased by a haunted bowl of ramen.

That comes after the next original film, Gatto, which screened an exclusive longer clip.

The head of Pixar, Pete Docter, just hit the stage to talk about two highly anticipated sequels: Incredibles 3 and Coco 2, out Summer 2028 and November 2029 respectively.

Docter revealed that Incredibles 3 will focus heavily on the Incredible kids Violet, Dash, and Jack Jack.

For Coco 2, we learned that it takes place a few years later. Miguel is now a teenager and will travel back to the Land of the Dead to team up with Ernesto for another adventure. Lee Unkrich returns to direct.

We just saw a first clip from The New Simpsons Movie (which seems like the official title?)

Homer is at the Isotopes game and wants to catch a historic home run that will make him rich. “Make Homer rich,” he chants. The batter hits one towards Homer but Hans Moleman catches it. Then Homer jumps on him. The ball then pops out and basically makes it through all of Springfield, hitting every character and landmark before landing right back at the stadium. Bart gets it. “D’oh.”

Now into Pixar.

Zootopia 2 co-stars Ke Huy Quan and Ginnifer Goodwin are apparently hosting the night and they introduce the CEO of Disney, Josh D’Amaro. He’s talking about being a Disney fan and his journey to the big job.

Yeah yeah, get to the movies and TV, Josh!

After a long and, frankly, kind of painful preshow, it’s starting. 25 minutes late. The lights have gone down, and the presentation has begun.

As an overview for the next few hours, there is certainly a lot of content coming that isn’t strictly io9. We’ll keep a run of show going and then focus in on the stuff you care most about.

It’s after 7 p.m. PST, and things haven’t started yet.

Fifteen minutes and counting…

The arena is filling up but there are also a lot of people in line for food and merch. It is, after all, in a hockey arena.

So here are some of the properties that are pretty much confirmed to be represented tonight.

• Ahsoka Season Two
• Bluey
• Frozen 3
• Hexed
• Ice Age: Boiling Point
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
• Percy Jackson
• Romy and Michelle 2
• VisionQuest
• Camp Rock 3

Those are the ones we’re sure of. What do we think beyond that?

• Star Wars Starfighter
• Avengers: Doomsday
• Incredibles 3
• Coco 2

And hopefully some surprises too.

Hello from inside the Honda Center. The DJs are entertaining the crowd with some Disney karaoke.

We’ve got about an hour until everything gets rolling. What is everyone excited about?