Frozen

Why did they choose Olaf to be glow in the dark. The two others look real cool.

^Not sure why but it was probably to have something cool for Olaf for the Comic Con Exclusive one was I guess.

Following "1000 Forms of Fear" on the new Billboard 200 is the resurging "Frozen" soundtrack, which rises 5-2 with 46,000 (up 23 percent). It jumps thanks todeep discounting at both Amazon MP3 and Google Play, where the album's price was temporarily dropped to $3.99 during the tracking week.

Source: Billboard

Once Upon a Time Could Get a Frozen Spinoff

ABC isn't letting go of it its hopes for a Once Upon a Time spinoff. And there is a possibility that the new Frozen characters of Anna, Elsa and Kristoff could spin off into their own ABC series down the line.

"We don't have immediate plans for a Frozen spinoff, but they're so inventive, those two…" ABC president Paul Lee told me today at the TCA Press Tour in Beverly Hills, as he met with reporters to talk Fall TV, referring to OUAT executive producers Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis.

Though ABC's first attempt at a OUAT spinoff, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, failed this past season, Lee said that does not rule out the chance for another new Once-inspired series.

"Eddy and Adam are endlessly inventive, so they have glints in their eyes of stories that they can spin for years to come. So it certainly doesn't rule out their ability or my ability to go beyond Once."

And for anyone concerned that it's just too soon to do Frozen on the ABC fairytale series, Lee told me he has no doubts whatsoever.

"Absolutely not," Lee said. "Frozen is a wonderful asset. John Lassiter (executive producer of the Frozen film), himself flew up to Vancouver, he's integrally related to the way we're doing that. Adam and Eddie always have a twist on every story, so you can imagine their twist is going to be very different. But no, I think it's the perfect time. We're thrilled with it."

We can't wait.

Source: EOnline

Oh btw, there's a certain cameo of a character in the new trailer for Big Hero 6.

Frozen finished it's amazing run at the US box office yesterday with an amazing total of $400,738,009! Along with that, it scored $867,100,000 overseas and all together it wowed with an astounding $1,267,838,009 worldwide! Let's give a round of applause to everyone at Walt Disney Animation Studios including directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, producer Peter Del Vecho, songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen-Anderson Lopez, Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, and everyone who worked really hard to make Frozen an instant classic! God bless you all.

The Sales Domination of 'Frozen,' In One Chart

This year's U.S. music sales would be almost uneventful if not for the "Frozen" soundtrack. Purchases are down across the board -- even digital albums and tracks. Releases by superstars have stumbled.

One album has bucked the trends and is doing brisk business, however. Through July 13th, "Frozen" leads all albums in three categories: share of track sales, share of album sales and share of track-equivalent album sales. A track-equivalent album, or TEA, is a measure of an album's popularity that combines album sales (in album units) and track sales (track units converted into album using a ten-tracks-to-an-album conversion metric).

The Disney soundtrack has a 2.15% share of album sales, nearly four times the 0.55% share of second-place "Beyonce" and over four times the third-place album, Lorde's "Pure Heroine," according to Billboard analysis of Nielsen Soundscan numbers. "Frozen" has topped the Billboard 200 album chart 13 times and has sold a total of 2.78 million units.

Although "Frozen" is more an album story than a track story, its 1.1% track share is also tops for 2014. Katy Perry's "Prism" (1%) and Pharrell Williams' "Girl" (0.99%) are a close second and third in track shares.

The combination of album and track sales gives "Frozen" a 1.8% share of TEA sales. That's over three times the shares of "Prism" and "Girl," which tied for second with a 0.57% TEA share. "Pure Heroine" and "Beyonce" are close behind with TEA shares of 0.55% and 0.54%, respectively.

"Frozen" first topped the album chart in the week ending January 5th while topping the U.S. box office as well. It became the fourth animated film soundtrack to reach number one after Jack Johnson's "Curious George" from 2006 and Disney's "Pocahontas" from 1995 and "The Lion King" from 1994.

The soundtrack has been a shining star in a dreary year. Album sales are down 14.9%, digital album sales have fallen 11.7% and track sales are 12.9% below last year's pace. In spite of this year-over-year slide, "Frozen" has easily outsold last year's top title.

At the same point in the year -- week 28 -- Justin Timberlake's leading album share of 1.37% gave "The 20/20 Experience" the top TEA share of 1.16% -- far behind the 1.8% TEA share of "Frozen" this year. The only TEA share above 1% through week 28 last year, Timberlake's 1.16% share represented TEA units of 2.61 million. "Frozen" has sold 3.47 million TEA units.

Source: Billboard

Ready to Let Go of "Let It Go" ? Disney Isn't. Mouse has Five Year Plan for Frozen Franchise

You've no doubt already heard about all of the box office records that Frozen has broken over the past eight months (With the most recent one being the 16 weeks that this Walt Disney Animation Studios production spent as the No. 1 film in Japan. Frozen sold over $240 million worth of tickets in that country before it was finally knocked out of the top spot. Ironically enough by another Disney movie, Maleficent). But were you aware of how well the Frozen soundtrack has been selling?

To date, an estimated 2.78 million units of the Frozen soundtrack have been sold. More to the point, this Walt Disney Records release has topped the Billboard 200 album chart 13 times since January.

And since Disney executives dearly want to keep this billion dollar franchise front-of-mind with consumers for years yet to come, they've now decided to use Frozen's songs as a way to keep the public excited about this property.

Don't believe me? Then check out the all-new music video version of "Do You Want to Build A Snowman?" which debuted on the Disney Channel just last night. Twenty-six Disney stars came together last month to record an all-new arrangement of this Bobby Lopez / Kristen Anderson-Lopez song which Marco Marinangeli put together. All with the hope that this new music video would then help keep tweens excited about Frozen's tunes.

Or -- better yet -- how about the "For the First Time In Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration" show. This live stage show is presented seven times daily at Disney's Hollywood Studios as part of this theme park's summer-long "Frozen Summer Fun" promotion. And given the hundreds of little kids & their parents who now stand in the blistering hot Central Florida sun for hours daily just to get the chance to sing along with Anna, Elsa & Kristoff inside the Premiere Theater, these songs still clearly have a powerful hold over a huge audience.

At least what's the folks who run the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood are hoping. Given that they'll be bringing the sing-along version of Disney Frozen back to this classic movie palace for two weeks starting on August 22nd.

And on the consumer products side of the Mouse House, Disney believes that its Frozen karaoke album (which just debuted in Billboard's top 20) will be a big seller. And starting in late August / early September, look for a brand-new wave of Frozen -themed merchandise to hit stores which will then attempt to capitalize on the continuing popularity of this film's soundtrack.

These items include the Frozen Crystal Kingdom Vanity from JAKKS Pacific (which includes a musical feature where Anna & Elsa magically appear in this vanity's mirror and then singing excerpts from this Academy Award-winning film's score), a "Frozen Sing-Along Storybook" from Disney Publishing which includes a CD as well as the lyrics to this movie's song, a Frozen Cool Tunes Sing-Along Boombox from Kid Design as well as a Frozen Sing & Swing Olaf plush from Just Play.

And let's not forget about Disney on Ice presents Frozen, the music-filled arena show that will be premiering at Orlando's Amway Center on September 4th before Feld Entertainment then sends it off on a year-old Northern American tour. Not to mention the stage version of Frozen which Bobby & Kristen are reportedly already prepping for Disney Theatrical to produce in the not-so-distant future. And then there's the Frozen ride that the Imagineers are reportedly prepping as a replacement for Epcot's Maelstrom attraction.

And all of this is being done because Disney CEO Bob Iger -- during a recent quarterly earnings conference call -- identified Frozen as one of the Company's top five franchises. "So you can expect us to take full advantage of that over the next at least five years," Iger told investment analysts.

So while you personally may be ready to let go of Let It Go, The Walt Disney Company certainly isn't. So you should probably look for the Mouse to seek out all sorts of new ways (EX: Next summer's "In Summer" promotion. Given that Olaf has now been identified as Frozen's break-out character, look for all sorts of snowman-themed beachwear to show up on store shelves for Spring of 2015) to extend Frozen's current hot streak.

Source: Huffington Post

Why 'Frozen' Was Such a Big Box-Office Hit in Japan

The global Disney success is set to finish its theatrical run in the country with more than $250 million, making it the third-highest grossing film there ever.

TOKYO – Frozen is now nudging a quarter of a billion dollars at the Japanese box office, with not even the Bluray and VOD release here ending its record-breaking 19-week run in theaters.

Although the Academy Award winner was a global smash, no other foreign market has embraced Anna and Elsa quite like Japan.

Released locally on March 14 as Anna to Yuki no Jou (Anna and the Snow Queen), the title of the Hans Christian Andersen story on which the animated film is loosely based, it topped Japan's box office for 16 straight weeks, until the beginning of July. It has remained in theaters, taking a total of $248 million (￥25.2 billion) to become the third-highest grossing film in Japan behind Titanic and Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away.

Japan's love of both animation and Disney is no secret — Tokyo Disney Resort has seen well over 550 million visitors since it opened in 1983, more than four times the population of Japan — so Frozen was expected to do well, though nobody foresaw the social phenomenon it became. Walt Disney Studios Japan scheduled the home entertainment release for July 16, clearly expecting the film to have left cinemas by then.

One factor that helped contribute to the success of Frozen was the local voice and song casting. Anna and Elsa were voiced by Sayaka Kanda and Takako Matsu, two singers and actresses whose performances received almost universal acclaim. Two postings of Matsu's Japanese version of Let It Go have more than 95 million hits on Youtube, and the song has been heard everywhere for months, while the bilingual soundtrack album has been in the top 10 since March, currently sitting at number two.

Ari no Mama de, which translates roughly as "just as it is" and is the Japanese rendition of the Let It Go phrase, worked exceptionally well, and the independent-girl-power theme was a part of the film's appeal in a conformist society that is beginning to deal with ingrained chauvinism. Disney's marketing in Japan originally targeted young women and girls with the somewhat unconventional dual-female lead characters and the film's musical-like qualities. Spreading from that core audience, Frozen began to attract a wide age range, getting occasional cinemagoers into theaters, and a large number of repeaters.

"I went to see it because everyone was talking about it, and the critics were all raving about it in the newspapers," says 83-year-old Tamiko Mizune. "The themes were simple but strong, the animation was stunning and the songs came over well. The Ari no Mama de [Let It Go] phrase really captured people's imagination. Nearly everyone I know has seen it."

"I hadn't been to the cinema for about three years until I saw Frozen in March. I'm not even sure what the last film I saw in a theater was," says Yoshiho Muramatsu, a 19-year-old student of ecology in Kanagawa, south of Tokyo. "I went mainly because my girlfriend wanted to go, but everyone at university has seen it."

Whether it was fortuitous timing or clever scheduling, the 3D Japanese version came into theaters in time for the Golden Week holidays in May, meaning audiences no longer had to choose between the 3D subtitled or dubbed 2D versions. This helped increase the number of repeaters like Keitaro Saito, a manager at a Tokyo advertising agency, who took his four-year-old son to see the English and Japanese 3D versions.

"My son didn't understand the subtitles on the English version, so we went to see the Japanese one too," he said. "Though we bought the CDs for him, and now he can sing the English and Japanese versions."

Yosuke, a pharmacy student in Tokyo, went to see Frozen twice, both times to the English 2D version.

"I like Kristen Bell, and it's like a musical, so I wanted to see it in the theater. I watched it at the TCX cinema in Nihonbashi, which has really good sound," Yosuke said. "It was the fourth time for one of the women from my research lab that I went to see it with; she can sing all the songs."

The success of Frozen comes against a backdrop of Hollywood fare struggling in Japan in recent years. In 2012, imports took only 34.3 percent of the annual box office, the lowest share since 1965. In 2013 that increased to 39.4 percent, but this year is looking far healthier, mainly thanks to Anna and Elsa.

Frozen's huge popularity may benefit Hollywood, and Disney in particular. Frozen was finally knocked off its lofty perch by Maleficent.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

'Frozen' tops list of year's biggest digital hits

R-rated movies perform better on home video, figures suggest; 'Frozen' tops them all.

Frozen just won't let it go.

After ringing up more than $400 million in ticket sales last year, the Oscar-winning animated film topped the nation's video downloads the first half of the year, according to Rentrak.

Rentrak's list of video downloads and rentals, which does not include revenue estimates, also suggests that R-rated films perform better at home than in theaters: The Wolf of Wall Street and American Hustle, while solid ticket-sellers in theaters, cracked the top 10 list of digital films. The list:

1. Frozen

2. Hunger Games: Catching Fire

3. The Wolf of Wall Street

4. Captain Phillips

5. Gravity

6. 12 Years A Slave

7. American Hustle

8. Thor: The Dark World

9. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

10. Bad Grandpa

Source: USA Today

The "Frozen" soundtrack spends its 30th straight week in the top five, as it descends 2-5 with 43,000 (down 6 percent). The last album to spend a longer consecutive run in the top five was Adele's "21," which wrapped a 39-week reign in the region on Dec. 3, 2011.

Source: Billboard

After 5 Seconds of Summer, the long-running Frozen soundtrack rises 5-2 on the Billboard 200, selling 37,000 (down 15 percent). The album is spending its 31st consecutive week in the top five.

Source: Billboard

Disney's growth is not 'Frozen'

It’s the last big week for second-quarter earnings reports. And investors are going to Disneyland!

There are 122 companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 yet to report their results. Many are due this week. But one of the most important companies investors are still waiting to hear from is Walt Disney (DIS).

The media giant reports earnings on Tuesday. The stock is an important report because it’s a great indication of the health of the consumer. It’s also a testimony to smart management. The Mouse House has topped earnings estimates in at least the past five straight quarters in large part thanks to smart investments made in the recession. The hit move Frozen doesn’t hurt either. Analysts are calling for Disney’s earnings to jump another 14% in the second quarter as revenue is projected to rise 5%. Investors will be closely watching the performance of the theme parks, which have become an increasingly important part of the company thanks to investments that have allowed for higher prices.

Source: USA Today