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‘Frozen II’ on Track for $100 Million-Plus Opening, Biggest


Sequel to Disney’s $1.27 billion hit is anticipated to set new file for its animation studio

The first spherical of monitoring for Disney’s “Frozen II” arrived on Thursday, and as anticipated, it’s big. Early estimates are predicting that Anna and Elsa’s return will deliver the primary $100 million-plus opening for an animated movie launched exterior of the summer season.

The first “Frozen,” launched on Thanksgiving weekend in 2013, had a three-day opening of $67.four million and a five-day opening of $93.6 million. It went on to leg out to $400 million home, $1.27 billion worldwide, and change into Disney’s most profitable in-house IP with numerous billions made in merchandise.

With that in thoughts, “Frozen II” is coming into theaters with excessive quantities of pre-release consciousness from audiences, a lot in order that Disney moved the movie’s launch to earlier than Thanksgiving weekend. If it meets monitoring projections, it would rank among the many prime 10 highest November openings of all-time — the file belongs to “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” with $158 million — and shatter the opening file for Walt Disney Animation Studios. That studio file at present belongs to “Zootopia” with $75 million.

“Frozen II” follows Elsa, Anna, Kristoff and Olaf as they enterprise far past Arendelle to research a brand new menace to their dwelling. To cease it, Elsa should uncover the place her ice powers got here from and discover a method to change into even stronger. “Frozen” administrators Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck return together with authentic voice forged Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff, and Josh Gad. Newcomers to the forged embody Sterling Okay. Brown, Evan Rachel Wood, Alfred Molina and Martha Plimpton.



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