The staff behind the Spy×Family anime announced on Sunday that the series will receive a fourth season, and that a brand-new theatrical film will open in Japanese theaters in 2027, according to Anime News Network.

Variety reports that Japanese studio and exhibitor Toho Co., Ltd. is lining up the new feature film to open in Japan the same year as the fourth season.

To mark the announcement, Toho released a teaser visual for Season 4 — which Variety describes as the first image from the new season showing the Forger family back together, with Loid, Yor, Anya and Bond strolling down a European-style city street as newspaper pages blow past them.

Release dates, story and production details for both the series and the film will come later, per Toho.

A same-year pairing of a new season and an all-new film is a notable escalation for a franchise whose cinematic history consists of one previous movie.

According to Anime News Network, the SPY×FAMILY Code: White film — an all-new work with an original story — opened in Japan in December 2023 and topped the Japanese box office in its first weekend, with Crunchyroll opening it in North America in April 2024.

Variety notes the anime first aired on television in 2022 and has since built a worldwide following with its blend of action and comedy, and frames the two 2027 releases as bringing the Forgers back five years after the anime's broadcast debut.

For fans, the surprise is the volume of new Spy×Family content committed at once rather than a single renewal.

Anime News Network lays out the franchise's television history: the first season's first half premiered in April 2022 and its second half in October 2022; the second season premiered in October 2023 and aired for 12 episodes; and the third season premiered in October 2025 and ran for 13 episodes.

Variety describes the premise that has sustained the series: master spy Twilight assembles a fake family for a classified mission, unaware that his wife Yor is secretly an assassin, his adopted daughter Anya can read minds, and the family dog Bond can see the future.

The anime adapts Tatsuya Endō's ongoing manga, which launched on Shonen Jump+ in March 2019 — ANN adds that Shueisha published the manga's 18th compiled volume on November 4.

The announcement sits inside a broader push by Toho, which Variety describes as a company founded in 1932 operating across film production, distribution and exhibition, live theater, anime and urban real estate.

Its Toho Animation label — also home to "My Hero Academia" and "Jujutsu Kaisen" — has been growing internationally, per Variety.

Meanwhile the franchise keeps expanding off-screen: Anime News Network reports that a second stage musical, adapting the Doggy Bomb Arc and Luxury Cruise Ship Arc, ran in Tokyo from September 22 to October 29, with further runs in Fukuoka, Hyogo, Nagoya and Yamagata through November and December.

Fans now await concrete release dates and story details for both the fourth season and the film, which Toho said would be revealed later.