reported by Deadline<\/a>, the film follows a TCG player and his partner Mimikyu as they work toward a high-stakes goal. The teaser shows Mimikyu wearing a yellow hoodie.<\/p>\nThe clip also notes the film is coming in 2027 “and beyond,” suggesting additional projects may follow.<\/p>\n
Mimikyu first appeared in the 2016 video games Pok\u00e9mon Sun and Moon. The character disguises itself under a rag painted to resemble Pikachu, driven by a desire to be accepted.<\/p>\n
It has since appeared across multiple games, the trading card game, and the Pok\u00e9mon anime series.<\/p>\n
Fans already know this one.<\/p>\n
The most recent Pok\u00e9mon theatrical film, Pok\u00e9mon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle, was released in Japan in 2020 and in the United States the following year.<\/p>\n
Production Team<\/p>\n
Director Katsuhiko Kitada is leading the project, with character design handled by Akemi Hayashi. Japanese animation studio CloverWorks is producing the animation. STORY inc. serves as the film’s producer.<\/p>\n
CloverWorks is Tokyo-based. The studio is known for its work on other high-profile anime productions.<\/p>\n
Broader Pok\u00e9mon Expansion<\/p>\n
The Wild Card announcement came days after a separate deal involving the franchise. Disney+ recently greenlit Pok\u00e9mon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu, a new stop-motion series under a global distribution agreement with The Pok\u00e9mon Company International.<\/p>\n
That series is set to debut on Disney XD and stream on Disney+ in 2027.<\/p>\n
More Pok\u00e9mon is coming fast.<\/p>\n
The two projects together mark a notable expansion of Pok\u00e9mon content across both theaters and streaming platforms heading into next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pok\u00e9mon Company announced a new feature-length animated film during the closing ceremony of the 2026 Pok\u00e9mon World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-448941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}