Walt Disney Studios confirmed the future face of animation in an announcement and email this week, throwing its full weight behind
three-dimensional cinema by pledging that all its future animated
releases — starting with Bolt this November, and continuing with re-releases of the first two Toy Story films, leading up to the debut of Toy Story 3 in the summer of 2010 — will be in 3-D. Disney has now become the second studio, after Jeffrey
Katzenberg made a similar pledge at DreamWorks Animation, to vow to produce animated content exclusively in the format. The
announcement came at a New York press conference this past week, as chairman
Dick Cook and Pixar creative czar John Lasseter unveiled 10 new titles
scheduled to open between now and 2012, including a sequel to 2006’s Cars.