When Frozen 2 Becomes The Primadona Of The Box Office

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JAKARTA - It's only been running for a few days, Disney's newest animated film, Frozen 2, is predicted to become the box office star. This film is said to be making a profit of 124 million US dollars in screenings this weekend in 4,440 theaters in North America.

Estimates for Frozen 2's debut over the weekend are well above Disney's previous prediction of $ 100 million. Launching Variety, Sunday, November 24, the second sequel to Frozen generated US $ 41.8 million in domestic views on Friday, and US $ 57.8 million internationally.

Previously, the first film Frozen made US $ 93.6 million in domestic views and generated a total of over US $ 1.2 billion globally.

The achievement of the second film from the story of Elsa and Anna, will make this film one of the second highest grossing Disney animated films after the live-action The Lion King with 191.8 million US dollars in July 2019.

Meanwhile, this week's Frozen 2 competitor, Ford v Ferrari, is quite far away with 15 million US dollars, followed by A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood with around 14.1 million US dollars in its first weekend of release.

STX Films' 21 Bridges debut with Chadwick Boseman as the lead star should land fourth with about $ 10 million from 2,665 theaters. Meanwhile, John Cena's Playing With Fire completes the fifth position with around US $ 5 million.

Frozen 2 was released six years after the first film

This film still features Anna (Kristen Bell), Elsa (Idina Menzel), Olaf (Josh Gad), and Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) who return to explore outside the kingdom of Arendelle. This time, it focuses on the story of Elsa's adventures through the forests and oceans to find out the truth about her past. The story of the origin of his magical powers will also be revealed.

If in the previous film, Frozen, Elsa was afraid that her strength would be dangerous to other people and the world, then this time she hoped that her strength would be enough or even more than enough for her.

Frozen 2 wasn't actually planned. However, because directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck felt there was still something left unanswered at the end of the film, they decided to make a sequel.

At Walt Disney Animation Studios there is no such thing as creating a sequel if the filmmaker doesn't have the idea and desire to make it happen. So, Frozen 2 is the fourth sequel film and the first animated sequel to the production house.

The idea for a sequel first appeared 6 years ago right after the first Frozen film was made. Meanwhile, work on this sequel has been going on for 4 years. The success of his first film made the production team even more careful in making the sequels to ensure Frozen fans were satisfied.