Disney sent out a list of 2028 theatrical release dates and then some, most of which we told you about both separately on D23’s big Friday night and in our outlook from the studio’s big film lineup.

Prominently, while we knew Ghost Rider was opening in 2028, Disney has officially made it known that the Ryan Gosling starring, Shawn Levy directed motorcycle riding anti-hero movie is hitting theaters on July 28, 2028, weekend the studio already had on hold for an untitled Marvel Studios movie. Again, the end of the July is the new hot launchpad post Covid for Marvel pics like Deadpool & Wolverine and Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Shifting earlier in 2027 is the Starlight Pictures suspense horror, Monitor, going from April 30 net year to April 16. Blurb for pic from Matt Black and Ryan Polly: After a disturbing video surfaces online, something begins to spread – moving from screen to screen and targeting anyone who watches. No escape. No warning. Once you’ve seen it – it’s already too late.

Disney is still calling dibs on an untitled movie, switching it from Feb. 18, 2028 to Feb. 11, 2028.

As previously announced, these mega pic dates are as follows:

Pixar’s Ghost Market on March 10, 2028

Disney live-action Tangled on March 31, 2028

Marvel Studio’s untitled X-Men on May 5, 2028.

New Disney Animation movie Clay on Nov. 22, 2028.

Black Panther 3 on Dec. 15, 2028.

Coco 2 on Nov. 21, 2029.

In 2029, there’s also an untitled Marvel movie which has been updated to being an untitled Disney movie, schedule for Nov. 9 that year.

There was “a great deal of turbulence,” Dan Harmon acknowledged, following co-creator and star Justin Roiland’s 2023 ouster from Adult Swim‘s Rick and Morty ahead of Season 7, amid domestic violence charges (which were ultimately dropped) and other allegations of misconduct. But it feels now, that the ship has been righted and the page has been turned.

“This was a show that was grandfathered in from an era of less accountability, less awareness, less complication, and just creating a workplace where everybody felt human and grown up, that was enough to take several years,” said Rick and Morty co-creator, writer and executive producer Harmon at Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees Studio, appearing alongside showrunner/EP Scott Marder.

Watch the conversation below and scroll down for photos from the event.

One of the biggest behind-the-scenes shifts, Harmon said, has been fostering a workplace “where collaboration replaced the auteur model — where even an egomaniac like me could admit and benefit from the fact that people that went to art school actually know better than me how to tell a story.”

Credited by Harmon as instrumental to the changes he described, Marder told us another facet of Rick and Morty’s evolution has been creating a work environment that’s a bit less brutal — where systems were put in place to ensure the show wouldn’t “kill any one particular person” with work demands.

“It’s a really tough show. We rewrite constantly, all that sort of stuff,” Marder noted. “By the time [Season] 9 was in place, all these systems were working and gelling, and morale was high.”

Gratifying, for Marder, is the quality of work that has resulted from Rick and Morty’s behind-the-scenes reboot. This year, Rick and Morty — a comedy chronicling the dimension-hopping misadventures of a cynical genius scientist and his anxious teenage grandson — scored its fifth Emmy nomination for Outstanding Animated Program. The show’s first nom since 2023 affords it a chance to win the category for a third time.

“What’s cool about Season 9 is it’s the first one that I’ve heard people even put up there with the first two, which really feels rewarding,” said Marder. “I feel like Season 9 is the most in-sync flow we’ve had with the directors and art teams…which is why…people love the writing, but they also feel like the art has picked up, as well.”

L-R: Dan Harmon and Scott Marder

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Dan Harmon

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Scott Marder

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L-R: Dan Harmon and Scott Marder

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Scott Marder

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During their chat with Deadline, the Rick and Morty duo confirmed that Season 10 is on track to premiere next summer. Joking that “it’s being generated by Palantir as we speak,” Harmon also spoke to his “cynical fear” for the future of adult animation — the question being, “how possible is this tomorrow?”

Harmon argued that the Covid pandemic created “an illusion of huge demand” for this kind of content, but notes that animation has always been “a high-risk, high-yield thing.”

“It’s not slop; it’s not driven by an algorithm,” Harmon said. “It takes longer to make your pilot than the average executive’s job is going to be secure. I don’t mean that to be crass because I could say the same thing about actors, writers, everybody. I mean, Venice is sinking.”

The counterargument to Harmon’s cynicism is a show like Adult Swim’s Common Side Effects, which he described as being imbued with “a sort of unprecedented humanity.”

“Fingers crossed, adult animation continues to be a thing. Because I believe that what Mike White does with White Lotus can be done even more effectively with animation,” Harmon said. “It’s a medium that that has a huge use for redeeming humanity.”