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Pixar announces Día de los Muertos film

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An upcoming Pixar film will center on Día de los Muertos -- the Mexican holiday honoring the dead -- the animation studio announced at the CinemaCon convention of theater owners in Las Vegas this week. Director Lee Unkrich and producer Darla K. Anderson, the team behind ‘Toy Story 3,’ will collaborate on the as-yet-untitled movie.

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As is often the case with its long-gestating projects, Pixar revealed little else about the Día de los Muertos movie, which will presumably take many visual cues from the spooky holiday’s focus on skulls, masks and Mexican marigolds.

Pixar chief creative officer John Lasseter also shared a little more about the studio’s upcoming slate, including two projects first announced at Disney’s D23 fan convention last August. Lasseter supplied the title and a May 30, 2014, release date for ‘The Good Dinosaur,’ Bob Peterson’s film about what the world would be like if dinosaurs had never been extinct, and a June 19, 2015, release date for Pete Docter’s next project, which Walt Disney Studios is currently calling ‘The untitled Pixar film that takes you inside the mind.’

The brain movie is still shrouded in mystery: At D23, producer Jonas Rivera said, “We can’t wait to come back and tell you more as soon as we get out of psychotherapy.’

At CinemaCon, the studio also screened 30 minutes of its next feature, the Scotland-set ‘Brave,’ due out June 22. Scottish bagpipers supplied a little mood music for the occasion, and Lasseter donned a kilt.

[For the record, 4:40 p.m., April 25: A previous version of this post said the untitled Día de los Muertos film will be released in 2015. Disney has not announced a release date for the film.]

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