Very few studios can get fans excited simply by announcing a release date without revealing a title, plot details or casting on a future project. But when Pixar speaks, movie lovers tend to listen.

So with the animation house’s anticipated sequel Cars 2 ready to rev its engines this Friday, Deadline reports that Pixar already has circled Nov. 27, 2013 as the release date for its next feature. It apparently will be “an original project, not a sequel,” but the story was mum on additional details.

That doesn’t mean Pixar fanatics have to wait that long for more animated magic from the wizards of Emeryville, California. The studio’s Brave, co-directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman, has a June 22, 2012 release date, while Pixar also plans to release its Monsters Inc. prequel, Monsters University in June 2013. But after Pixar pulled the plug on Newt because of similarities to Fox’s Rio, details of future projects have been under wraps, so we’ll be anxious to see what this picture is, and which wunderkind storyteller will be at the helm.