Pixar’s Oscar-winning Wall-e (2008) is coming to The Criterion Collection this November, marking an unexpected but welcome collaboration between the animation giant and boutique home video label. Wall-e will be spine #1161.

As per The Criterion Collection:

We’re proud to announce our first collaboration with Disney and Pixar: Wall•E (2008), directed by Andrew Stanton, enters the Criterion Collection on 4K Uhd this November! A high-water mark of digital animation, Stanton’s prescient vision of a rapidly oncoming dystopian future, packaged within a dazzling pop-science-fiction love story, is an urgent fable for our troubled millennium.”

Criterion typically announces their new releases to the collection in the middle of the month, with the November 2022 releases having been unveiled on August 17. Singling out September 8 for the Wall-e announcement was most likely done so to coincide with Disney+ Day.

The special features:

4K digital master, approved by director Andrew Stanton, with Dolby Atmos soundtrackOne...