In a surprise move Disney have moved the release date of two of its forthcoming Pixar titles. Finding Nemo sequel (Finding Dory) will now swim into cinemas summer 2016 and The Good Dinosaur is being bumped 18 months from its original May 2014 date and will now stride into cinemas November 2016.

The signs were clear that things were far from good for the prehistoric movie when Bob Peterson was removed as the director. A replacement has yet to be found to fill his shoes but this delay will now leave 2014 without any Pixar movies being released. 

The last time a full year went by without a Disney Pixar movie was 2005, but as Pixar’s president Ed Catmull puts it "Nobody ever remembers the fact that you slipped a film, but they will remember a bad film. Our conclusion was that we were going to give the [dinosaur] film some more time." Over the years Pixar have delivered some of the most original animated films ever made, only with the slight missteps with both Cars adventures they’ve just about never put a creative foot out of place. 

There’s no shortage of animated films filling up our multiplexes, earlier this month the Antonio Banderas voiced and produced Justin and the Knights of Valour which has been met with borderline hateful reviews. It takes more than voicing Puss in Boots to know how to put a crowd-pleasing animated movie together.

These are the latest high-profile Disney movies doing the release date re-shuffle, previously Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man was moved up three months to summer 2015 and the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean has been pushed back to 2016.