{"id":586138,"date":"2026-08-31T18:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/586138\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:48:12","slug":"new-pokemon-movie-on-the-way-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/586138\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pokemon movie on the way &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">The film is directed by Katsuhiko Kitada, with characters designed by Akemi Hayashi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">It\u2019s being produced by Story Inc, while CloverWorks is in charge of the animation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">It will be the first Pokemon movie since Pokemon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle was released in 2020 in Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">The announcement is further proof 2027 is going to be a big year for Pokemon, with a new series titled The Misadventures of Sirfetch\u2019d and Pichu set to premiere on Disney+ and DisneyXD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">A clip of the upcoming movie was also shared on the Pokemon Instagram page, alongside the caption: \u201cGet ready for Pokemon: Wild Card, an all-new animated film featuring a Pokemon TCG player and Mimikyu!<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cStay tuned!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">Excited fans took to the comments, writing: \u201cYesss! Can\u2019t wait to watch\u201d, \u201cI can\u2019t wait for it\u201d and \u201cLETS GOOO! A NEW POKEMON MOVIE!!\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The film is directed by Katsuhiko Kitada, with characters designed by Akemi Hayashi. It\u2019s being produced by Story&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[18516,156,435,409,117,111,139,69,90,9509,2887,223,14047],"class_list":["post-586138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-18516","tag-entertainment","tag-movie","tag-movies","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-pokemon","tag-release","tag-the","tag-way"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}