‘Frozen 2’ makes 85+ mil over weekend, breaks Thanksgiving record
Walt Disney Animation Studios’ animated musical fantasy movie “Frozen 2” made (estimated) $85,250,000 domestically over the weekend of November 29, according to the domestic box office estimates by media measurement and analytics company Comscore.
Internationally, the sequel to the 2013 movie “Frozen” collected (estimated) $163,800,000 over the weekend.
It was a Thanksgiving, five-day holiday weekend, and CNN reports “Frozen 2” made the record for the highest-grossing weekend in Thanksgiving history, making $123.7 million domestically. Previously, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” which made $109 million in 2013, held the record.
“Frozen 2” had the biggest global animated debut of all time when it hit theaters the previous Sunday, making $358.4 million, according to the Walt Disney Company’s website. Moreover, the movie set a November animated record domestically with $130.2 million and saw the biggest domestic opening ever for the studio and for any animated movie outside of summer.
The movie had its world premiere at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on November 7.
“Frozen 2” continues the adventures of Anna, Elsa, Sven, Kristoff and Olaf voiced by Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff (Kristoff, Sven and the reindeer) and Josh Gad, respectively. The actresses and actors voiced the characters in the first movie too.
It is the 58th animated movie by Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee return as directors. Lee also returns as the writer, screenwriting a story by Buck, herself, Robert Lopez, Marc E. Smith and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. Lopez and Anderson-Lopez make returns as songwriters.
The new voices in “Frozen 2” are by Evan Rachel Wood (Iduna, whose single line in the first movie was voiced by Lee), Jeremy Sisto (King Runeard), Martha Plimpton (Yelena), Sterling K. Brown (Mattias), Alfred Molina (Agnarr), Rachel Matthews (Honeymaren) and Jason Ritter (Ryder).
“Frozen 2” holds an approval rating of 76% on movie and television review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 6.78/10. It has an average score of 65 out of 100 on entertainment review-aggregation site Metacritic.
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