If you have ever watched your cat get distracted mid-zoomies by random stuff, you are going to love Pixar’s upcoming movie. Disney and Pixar have released the first trailer for Gatto, and it looks like a love letter to cats, Venice, and beautiful animation all rolled into one.

What is Gatto actually about?

Set in the canals of Venice, Gatto follows Nero, a black cat who has spent years navigating a city shaped by superstition. Nero is starting to wonder if he has been living his nine lives the right way. Things get complicated when he finds himself in debt to Rocco, a powerful feline mob boss. Nero’s life takes an unexpected turn when a surprising friendship pushes him toward a bigger purpose.

The trailer balances humor with heart, while the film’s mobster-cat setup adds a playful twist. Between the stunning artwork, Venice setting, and a cat leading the adventure, Gatto already feels like one of Pixar’s most unique originals in years, including this year’s Hoppers.

The Gatto trailer also introduces the film’s voice cast, with Mark Ruffalo voicing Nero and Laurence Fishburne playing Rocco. The film is directed by Enrico Casarosa and produced by Andrea Warren, the same team behind the Oscar-nominated Luca, also set in Italy.

What makes Gatto feel different from other Pixar movies?

Gatto is Pixar’s first-ever hand-painted animated feature that blends hand-painted textures with its signature CGI. It is a bold, creative swing from a studio that has leaned heavily on its glossy CGI identity for over 30 years.

For cat people, Pixar seems to understand exactly what makes felines fascinating. Nero is curious, stubborn, independent, and constantly finding trouble. He is also a black cat, a choice that ties directly into the story’s themes of superstition and belonging.

The movie arrives in theaters on March 5, 2027. If the trailer has done its job, you may already be counting down the days.

A cosplay shared by graciethecosplaylass is merging Black Cat and Venom together in one terrifying costume with bite.

Pretty much everyone gets a symbiote in Marvel Comics these days. The days of there only being a handful of symbiotes are long behind us, as a bevy of symbiotes and hosts populate the universe.

This also means there are more opportunities than ever for fans to cherry-pick their favorite symbiote character. Be it reading comics, picking up games, or creating fan art, there are so many options to choose from now.

For cosplayers, the possibilities are all but endless. One cosplayer has now shown off an exciting – and terrifying – take on one of Spider-Man’s closest allies and greatest villains united.

Venomized Black Cat cosplay is stunning – and toothy

In a post shared on her Instagram, cosplayer Gracie McClung is showing off her venomized Black Cat. It’s a stunning cosplay that has some teeth to it.

No, there are literally teeth. Dozens of handmade teeth adorn the arms and chest of the costume, making up elements that are typically fur on the Black Cat costume. In a reel shared to her page, Gracie showed off the painstaking process of making each tooth, consisting of triangles being cut, warped and formed under heat.

The rest of the cosplay is incredibly detailed, a black body suit with the classic black suit logo and the trademark white veins that modern Venom incarnations don. A simple domino mask with a similar Venom flourish caps off the outfit.

There is a comic basis for the suit, though it’s not canon to the story. The design is based on an Ariel Diaz variant cover for 2022’s The Amazing Spider-Man #29. Black Cat does wind up wearing the Venom symbiote on Earth-258, as seen in Extreme Venomverse #2, where she bonds with the symbiote after Spider-Man separates from it in the original story.

Black Cat also gets a symbiote in the 2008 video game Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, where she’s a potential endgame partner for Spider-Man, should players choose to go the evil route.

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