The Bluey Movie releases first

Bluey and her sister Bingo are featured running away as a balloon pops in the first-look trailer for The Bluey Movie.

The big-screen adaptation of the popular Australian animated children’s television series, centred around a family of heeler dogs, will arrive in cinemas on August 6, 2027.

In the first trailer for the film, Bluey can be heard shouting “good one, Bingo”, as the balloon is punched into the air, to which Bingo replies “thanks, Bluey”.

As the balloon drops back down, the pair scream as they accidentally push the balloon forwards rather than upwards, and Bluey shouts “don’t let it touch the ground”.

The siblings then race after the balloon, but it lands on the grass and the pair run away before it pops to reveal the film’s title.

Premiered at Disney’s D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, the film’s producers said it “takes place on an action-packed day when a big surprise changes everything for Bluey and her family”.

At the fan event, there was a surprise game of keepy-uppy with the balloons from the trailer for fans, while a poster for the film, featuring Bluey and a balloon, was also released.

The movie will be written and directed by Bluey creator Joe Brumm and produced by Ludo Studio, which makes the show, in collaboration with BBC Studios.

The show follows the exhaustible and imaginative blue heeler, Bluey, and Bingo, along with their mother Chilli and father Bandit.

The film will feature voice talent from the series, including Melanie Zanetti as Chilli and David McCormack as Bandit.

While most episodes are about seven minutes long, creator Brumm experimented with a longer episode to end the third series in 2024.

Available in more than 140 countries, Bluey is the number one show for children on CBeebies and Disney+ in the UK.

Disney will release the Bluey movie in cinemas worldwide, followed by streaming on Disney+.

Last Month, the show’s award-winning producer Sam Moor said “it felt like a natural step” for the show to be translated into an Australian Indigenous language for the first time, and the team is “very keen” to do more.

The children’s series recently translated five of its episodes from seasons one and two into Yolnu Matha, the Australian First Nations language of north-east Arnhem Land.