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+ Best Family Movie of the Year + Best Mega-hit Movie of the Year + Best Musical of the Year + Most Profitable Movie of the Year: 362.32 mil. $ range
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| An uninformative but beautiful and anticipation-building ice crystal-centered poster for Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee's Frozen |
Two beautiful princess sisters in the high north are alienated, because the one of them, Elsa, has to protect the world from her curse, freezing capabilities.
Frozen is written by great debuting Rhode Islander co-writer/director Jennifer Lee (Wreck-It Ralph (2012, screenwriter)), with co-director Chris Buck (Tarzan (1999)) and Shane Morris (The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (2007, TV movie)) supplying story elements, based on fairytale The Snow Queen (1845) by Hans Christian Andersen (The Little Mermaid (1837)).
It is a fabulously good-looking, hyper-detailed, delightfully colorful adventure with fantastical songs, - mega-hit Let It Go is only the biggest and most well-known of them. It is also funny and has enchanting romance and feeling. Frozen is near-perfect Disney-type movie magic.
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Cost: 150 mil. $
Box office: 1,280.8 mil. $
= Mega-hit (returned 8.53 times its cost)
[Frozen premiered 10 November (New York International Children's Film Festival) and runs 102 minutes. Development began in the late 1990s, with Megan Mullally first attached as Elsa. Several Norwegian landmarks are shown in the film, and Norway is the biggest inspiration for its look. The film opened #22 to a 243k $ first weekend in 1 theater in North America, where it widened the following week to #2 and 93.5 mil. $ from 3,742 theaters, behind The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, subsequently spending another 13 weeks in the top 5, 2 of which were at #1, grossing 400.7 mil. $ (31.3 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Japan with 249 mil. $ (19.4 %) and South Korea with 76.6 mil. $ (6 %). It became the highest-grossing animation and musical of all time until The Lion King (2019). Bloomberg Business calculated the film's total cost (including production, marketing and distribution expenses) at 323-350 mil. $; Deadline Hollywood calculated the film's profits at over 400 mil. $. The film won 2 Oscars: Best Animation and Best Song (Let It Go). It also won 1/2 Golden Globe nominations, 2/3 BAFTA noms, 2/3 Grammy noms and many other honors. According to Excipio, a copyrights infringement-tracking site, the film was the 2nd most illegally downloaded of 2014, behind The Wolf of Wall Street, with almost 30 mil. downloads. The home video release still broke records: becoming the fastest-selling digital release at the time in North America, where it also sold enormous 18 mil.units, including 7.5 mil. blu-rays, accruing more than 308 mil. $ domestically alone. The success was such that a global merchandise shortage ran through most of 2014: Disney sold more than 3 mil. Frozen costumes in North America alone; more than 8 mil. Frozen books were sold by August 2014. The filmmakers and cast returned for smash hit sequel Frozen II (2019). Lee and Buck returned with Frozen Fever (2015, short) before their theatrical return Frozen II (2019). Kristen Bell (Zootopia (2016)) returned in Parks and Recreation (2013-14)) and theatrically in Veronica Mars (2014); Jonathan Groff (Looking (2016, TV movie)) in 2 shorts and a TV movie before his theatrical return in American Sniper (2014); Idina Menzel (Rent (2005)) in 10 TV, short and video game credits before her theatrical return in Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018). Frozen is certified fresh at 90 % with a 7.69/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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