Big day for Disney towers as not only have they released the official title for the new Star Wars movie, they’ve also announced the fact that there WILL be a Toy Story 4!

Walt Disney Co. chief Bob Iger made the announcement to Wall Street this very afternoon saying that the movie would be released June 16th 2017 (in the US – we expect it to follow shortly after in the UK) and not much else other than the news that we’ll see Chief Creative Officer and everyone’s favourite Hawaiian shirt wearing dude John Lasseter will direct.

This is HUGE news after the third movie in the franchise made a stonking $1.1bn at the box office with Director Lee Unkrich helming the project. Tom Hanks let slip a few years ago that the hugely popular series would see a fourth film and today we get confirmation of that fact by Mickey Mouse’s boss!

More as we get it!

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Update:

Here’s John Lasseter and the team at Pixar along with the official press release. Sorry the photo isn’t a little more exciting!

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Director John Lasseter works with members of his story team on Disney•Pixar’s “Toy Story 4,” a new chapter in the lives of Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the “Toy Story” gang. The film is slated for release in 2017. (Photo by Deborah Coleman / Pixar)

 TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!

Nearly two decades after Pixar Animation Studios created the world’s first computer-animated feature film with “Toy Story,” it revealed plans for Disney•Pixar’s “Toy Story 4,” an adventure that returns audiences to the world of the studio’s signature characters.

John Lasseter, director of the original “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2,” will direct the film, which opens a new chapter in the lives of Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the “Toy Story” gang. The story was dreamt up by Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter and Lee Unkrich, the storytellers who have been the driving force behind all three “Toy Story” films.

“We love these characters so much; they are like family to us,” said Lasseter. “We don’t want to do anything with them unless it lives up to or surpasses what’s gone before. ‘Toy Story 3’ ended Woody and Buzz’s story with Andy so perfectly that for a long time, we never even talked about doing another ‘Toy Story’ movie. But when Andrew, Pete, Lee and I came up with this new idea, I just could not stop thinking about it. It was so exciting to me, I knew we had to make this movie—and I wanted to direct it myself.”

Writing team Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (“Celeste and Jesse Forever”) joined the project, and Pixar veteran Galyn Susman (ABC’s “Toy Story OF TERROR!” and “Toy Story that Time Forgot”) is producing.

The film is slated for release in the US on June 16, 2017. UK release date TBC