Mickey Mouse and the Wishing Star

Mickey Mouse and the Wishing Star is a 2023 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Spyglass Media Group, New Republic Pictures, Project X Entertainment, Gunn Films, Marc Platt Productions, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Written and directed by Dean Wellins (in his directorial debut), the film is based on the Mickey Mouse characters created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and features characters from the Mickey Mouse universe, Disney Animated Canon, and some Silly Symphony shorts. The film stars the voices of Chris Diamantopoulos, Kaitlyn Robrock, Tony Anselmo, Bill Farmer, Jim Cummings, April Winchell, David Tennant, Corey Burton, Tress MacNeille, Ariana DeBose, Alan Tudyk, Bill Hader, Brad Garrett, Keegan-Michael Key, Maurice LaMarche, Natasha Rothwell, Victor Garber, Jennifer Kumiyama, Ramy Youssef, Harvey Guillén, Evan Peters, Niko Vargas, Della Saba, Jon Rudnitsky, Nick Jonas, Angelique Cabral, and Chris Pine. The film follows the titular character Mickey Mouse (Diamantopoulos), who travels to the kingdom of Rosas for a vacation with his friends as he makes a passionate plea to the stars in a moment of need, leading him to meet a living, magic star which has fallen from the sky, and together they along with his friends including Asha (DeBose), King Magnifico (Pine) and his wife Queen Amaya (Cabral) face up to his arch nemesis, Pete (Cummings), who plans to rule all the kingdom of Rosas by becoming the new sorcerer king.
Development of Mickey Mouse and the Wishing Star began in 2018 but was not publicly disclosed until January 2022, when it was revealed that Wellins began writing an original film at Disney Animation. In September 2022, the project was officially announced, with the title being revealed alongside the involvement of Diamantopoulos and Pine. Mickey Mouse and the Wishing Star is inspired by Disney's centennial, tying together a theme of most Disney films: wishes coming true. The film is noted to be the origin story for the "wishing star". Julia Michaels and Benjamin Rice wrote the songs, while Devo musician Mark Mothersbaugh composed the film score.
Mickey Mouse and the Wishing Star premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on October 16, 2023 in celebration of the Walt Disney Company's centennial and was theatrically released in the United States by Walt Disney Pictures on October 20, 2023. It was theatrically accompanied by the short film Once Upon a Studio. The film received universal acclaim from critics who praised the combination of 2D traditional animation and 3D computer animation, Dean Wellins' direction, the script, Mark Mothersbaugh's musical score, the songs, the world building, the characters and voice performances of the cast. It was a box office and commercial success and it grossed $650.7 million while it has been frequently considered to be one of the best animated films of all time.