Rio 3 (2023)

Rio 3 is American computer-animated comedy film produced by 20th Century Animation. It is directed by Carlos Saldanha and screenplay by Jenny Bicks and Yoni Brenner, and a sequel to 2014's Rio 2 and 2011's Rio. The film is scheduled for release on February 9th 2024 by Walt Disney Studios.

Cast

 * Jesse Eisenberg as Blu
 * Anne Hathaway as Jewel
 * George Lopez as Rafael
 * will.i.am as Pedro
 * Jamie Foxx as Nico
 * Tracy Morgan Luiz
 * Andy Garcia as Eduardo
 * Izaac Wang as Tiago
 * Amandla Stenberg as Bia
 * Rachel Crow as Carla
 * Bruno Mars as Roberto
 * Rita Moreno as Mimi
 * Philip Lawrence as Felipe
 * Nicole Scherzinger as Lani
 * Pitbull as Carlos
 * Ricky Martin as Rodrigo
 * Enrique Iglesias as Antonio
 * Jemaine Clement as Nigel
 * Kristen Chenoweth as Gabi
 * Jake T. Austin as Fernando
 * Leslie Mann as Linda
 * Rodrigo Santoro as Tulio

Production
Director Carlos Saldanha has kept the possibility for a Rio 3 open. He has stated, "Of course, I have a lot of stories to tell, so we're [starting to] prepare for it, if my schedule clears up.”

Release
Rio 3 is scheduled to be released February 9th 2024 by Blue Sky Studios. Confirmed on January 12th 2022.

= Plot = Now living a happy family life in the Amazon Jungle Blu and Jewel cherishing and learning about what it is like to see there three kids Carla, Bia, and Tiago grow up in the wild. Rafeal, Nico, Pedro, and Luis all decided to permanently move in to the jungle for good to stay near Blu and Jewel and throw a huge house warming celebration for the four of them. The next day Eduardo the leader of the Spix macaw tribe announces that Blu is next in line for the leader role and everyone is overjoyed by this while Blu is very excited but very skeptical about being the leader and tells jewel that he might not be good enough to be a leader, but jewel tell Blu about all the great things he did to save the jungle in the second movie which gives him the confidence to be the leader of the tribe until they are informed by Roberto that Eduardo is dying. While at Eduardo’s tree everyone is circled around Eduardo’s death bed he tells Blu that he is going to be a great leader and to not let him down and Blu promises him then Eduardo dies and the whole jungle has a big funeral for him.

Meanwhile Nigel and gabi return with a plan b to destroy blu once and for all and they team up with the monkeys from the first movie again and discuss the plan with them and when the plan will take place but when he is informed that Eduardo is dead and Blu will be filling in for him as the new leader of the Spix macaw tribe he comes up with a new plan that involves him killing Blu making him the leader of the tribe.

Nico, Pedro, Rafael, luiz and Carla start building the bird club back in Rio out in the jungle but get into a few accidents until a Brazilian Ruby named Carlos who is a western carnival performer in the west side of rio offers to help them if they let him and his group perform in the grand opening and they agree.

Meanwhile Jewel and Roberto help blu through the basics of leadership while Bia and Tiago are supporting him along the way and Blu makes great progress on learning to be a leader and everyone is overjoyed by his success they go celebrate at the bird club grand opening where Carlos’ group starts to perform there number which contains four sides where each bird will come out on first Carlos than a Black-eared fairy named Rodrigo and a Band-Rumped swift named Antonio come out and in the back side a female voice tells the birds that came “ I’ve got a question for you. Where all my party birds at?” And the crowd goes wild and out come a female Yellow Canary named Lani flys around in circles around the whole club and flys on to the stage and Nico is very smitten by Lani from the moment she started to perform her part of the routine and the group does a big breakdown dance