john leguizamo returns in Ice Age: Boiling Point as the first trailer arrives this week, putting Disney’s next franchise turn in view. The film is due February 4, 2027, and it brings back the core voice cast after a long gap between theatrical entries.
Leguizamo, Romano and Leary
John Leguizamo is back alongside Ray Romano, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah and Simon Pegg. That lineup is the cleanest signal so far that Disney is treating Boiling Point as a full franchise entry rather than a side project, after The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild arrived in January 2022 as a Disney+ exclusive spin-off without the core voice cast.
The trailer also puts a name to the franchise’s return path. Boiling Point is the first Ice Age movie to exist under Disney’s watch, and the first not to involve Blue Sky at all. For viewers, that means the series is no longer tied to the studio that built it; for Disney, it keeps a brand with a long theatrical record in circulation instead of leaving it stranded on streaming.
Disney after Blue Sky
The franchise’s scale explains why the move is being watched. The first Ice Age film arrived in March 2002, produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox, and it grossed $383 million worldwide on a $59 million budget. Ice Age: Continental Drift followed in 2012 and grossed $877 million, helping push the total franchise gross across five theatrical movies to $3.2 billion worldwide.
April 2021 changed the structure behind that business when Disney shuttered Blue Sky. Since then, the franchise’s future had to be rebuilt without the studio that made it a defining part of its identity. The 2022 streaming spin-off, made without the core voice cast, left the theatrical side looking unsettled; this trailer answers that by restoring the familiar ensemble and putting the series back on a big-screen track.
February 4, 2027
February 4, 2027 is now the date to watch, and the trailer suggests Disney is selling continuity first: Leguizamo, Romano, Leary, Latifah and Pegg are back, and the brand is still valuable enough to justify a theatrical feature after the studio switch. The next test is whether that familiar lineup can carry a franchise that has already collected $3.2 billion worldwide into a new phase without Blue Sky behind it.
