Tag: Frozen
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China Box Office: ‘Frozen 2’ Makes Best China Debut Ever for Disney Animated Film
“Frozen 2” iced out all its competitors in China this weekend, skidding out in front of the pack to top the local box office with a $53.2 million debut – the best ever for a Disney animated film in the Middle Kingdom. “Frozen 2” made more in three days than the original “Frozen” made during…
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‘Frozen II’ Thaws Box Office, But It’s a Chilly ‘Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’
The vital six-week race to the end of 2019 got off to a strong start with “
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Song of the South: the difficult legacy of Disney’s most shocking movie
The 1946 film won’t be showing up on Disney+, but its insidious racism serves as an important reminder of the company’s dark historyFor all the uncertainty surrounding the streaming wars – even for a dominant company like Netflix, which is still hemorrhaging billions of dollars – there’s reason to believe that Disney+ is a safe…
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Pixar on Life After John Lasseter: ‘The Company’s Quite a Bit Different Now’
Among the wave of alleged sexual offenders whose behavior rose to the surface in fall 2017 was John Lasseter. It turned out the chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar had a long history of misogynistic and toxic behavior toward his (mostly female) employees and by the following year, the company ousted…
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Anthems, girl power and redemption: how Frozen ticked all the right boxes
It has been six years since my young family first fell for Disney’s heroine Elsa. Can my children – or their mother – resist the sequel?No matter how many times we were told, we wouldn’t let it go. And so Frozen is back. Not that the earworm of the century was going to die anyway,…
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‘I must have watched it 50 times’: a Frozen dad prepares for the sequel
It’s the glue in many father-daughter relationships, with its earworm anthem and empowered princesses. Can the most successful animated film of all time do it again?If we go by Disney’s in-house lore, the idea of making a movie of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen had been kicking around for more than 70 years by…
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Idina Menzel in Talks to Play Evil Stepmother in ‘Cinderella’
Idina Menzel is in negotiations to join Camila Cabello in Sony’s “Cinderella,” portraying the evil stepmother.The news comes a day after the revelation that Billy Porter was in talks to play Cinderella’s fairy godmother. Sony had no comment on either possible casting.The stepmother role, also known as Lady Tremaine, is based on the original character…
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Walt Disney Animation Names Directors For Four New Film Projects (Exclusive)
Walt Disney Animation has appointed four filmmakers to work on original content for the studio. Directors Carlos Lopez Estrada (“Blindspotting”) and Suzi Yoonessi, along with Disney veterans Josie Trinidad and Marc Smith are each developing new films for the company’s animation branch.The announcement comes as Disney and Walt Disney Animation’s chief creative officer Jennifer Lee…
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Does This New ‘Frozen 2’ Teaser Reveal the Next “Let It Go?”
Disney has released a new 60-second teaser for Frozen 2, which offers our first look/listen at a brand new songs from the highly anticipated sequel, along with the full soundtrack listing. The smash-hit of 2013, Disney’s Frozen not only told the fantastic sisterly story of Arendelle’s Anna and Elsa, it introduced the infections and unforgettable…