# Pokémon Returning To The Big Screen With ‘Wild Card’ Animated Feature

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/pokemon-returning-to-the-big-screen-with-wild-card-animated-feature/
- Published: 2026-08-31T15:22:03+00:00
- Updated: 2026-09-01T05:45:53+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/08/pokemon-wild-card-animated-feature-release-date-teaser-1237063120/
- Topics: Art, Asia, Culture, Entertainment, Film, Paranormal, Weird & Viral, World

## Key points

- New Pokémon animated film, Wild Card, confirmed for 2027 release
- Made with CloverWorks; follows a TCG player and Mimikyu
- Disney+ also greenlights a separate stop-motion Pokémon series for 2027

## Summary

The Pokémon Company has announced that a new feature-length animated film, Pokémon: Wild Card, will arrive in cinemas in 2027, marking the franchise's first big-screen animated outing in years. The film, produced with Japanese animation studio CloverWorks, was unveiled during the closing ceremony of the 2026 Pokémon World Championships in San Francisco, alongside a short teaser trailer, and follows a Pokémon Trading Card Game player and his partner, the ghostly Pokémon Mimikyu, as they face a high-stakes challenge.

The teaser confirms the film is coming "in 2027 and beyond", hinting at further instalments or content to follow. It marks a return to feature animation for the franchise, whose last cinema release, Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle, came out in Japan in 2020 and the US in 2021. Separately, Disney+ has commissioned a new stop-motion series, Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch'd & Pichu, which will debut on Disney XD and stream on Disney+ in 2027 as part of a global distribution deal with The Pokémon Company International.

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