The first trailer for Ice Age: Boiling Point dropped Wednesday and makes one thing plain: the herd is back. The six-minute tease (and a few glorious seconds of slapstick) reunites core voices — Ray Romano’s Manny, John Leguizamo’s Sid, Denis Leary’s Diego, Simon Pegg’s Buck and Queen Latifah’s Ellie — and sends them tumbling through the air after a volcanic blast toward an unexplored Lost World.
That return matters because Boiling Point is the sixth Ice Age film and the franchise’s first big-screen adventure in more than a decade; the last theatrical installment, Ice Age: Collision Course, arrived in 2016. The trailer’s visuals lean into the original series’ favorite shorthand — perilous set-pieces, buddy‑comedy beats and a desperate Scrat gag — while confirming a few production realities: John Donkin directs, Lori Forte produces, and Crash, Eddie and a baby Scrat from Ice Age: Scrat Tales join the new journey.
Financial and franchise context sharpens the moment. The Ice Age movies have grossed roughly $3.2 billion worldwide across five theatrical releases, and Disney is positioning this as a return to theaters for a reliably bankable family brand. The studio has scheduled Ice Age: Boiling Point for a theatrical release on February 5, 2027, though one listing gives February 4, 2027, creating a small calendar discrepancy for international programmers and journalists tracking premieres.
How the film landed here is part of the story the trailer didn’t need to spell out. Ice Age began at Blue Sky Studios under 20th Century Fox; Blue Sky was shuttered in April 2021 after the studio’s acquisition by Disney. The franchise continued with a Disney+ Buck Wild spin-off in January 2022 that notably lacked the original theatrical cast, making the new footage — and the voice credits attached to it — the clearest confirmation yet that several original players have returned for a full theatrical sequel under Disney leadership.
The friction in that fact is unavoidable: this is the first Ice Age movie not to involve Blue Sky at all, yet it leans on the characters and voices that made Blue Sky’s originals into a global franchise. The trailer reassures fans by restoring familiar tones and comic rhythms, but it also raises casting questions the footage does not answer — beyond the named players on screen, how much of the original ensemble will appear in the finished movie remains unclear.
Practically, the trailer gives viewers a few concrete things to watch for between now and opening day. Expect production credits and more casting details to roll out with subsequent marketing; pay attention to which legacy characters beyond the featured five receive billing or cameos, and watch for how the Lost World is staged — the teaser promises “never-before-seen areas,” which could signal a larger visual upgrade aimed at theatrical audiences rather than streaming viewers.
For now the headline is simple and decisive: John Leguizamo is back as Sid, and the trailer confirms Manny, Sid, Diego, Buck and Ellie will lead Ice Age: Boiling Point when it hits theaters in early February 2027. The remaining question — which other original voices will return — is the one to be settled in the next round of casting announcements and trailers between now and the film’s release.
