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Disney's 'Frozen' Crosses $1 Billion Worldwide!

By InCinemas / 05 Mar 2014 (Wednesday)

On top of winning the 'Best Animated Feature Film' and 'Best Song' at the Oscars last weekend, Frozen is officially the 2nd highest grossing animated film ever!

On the same day it won two Academy Awards® including Best Animated Feature, “Frozen,” Walt Disney Animation Studios’ 53rd feature film, crossed $1 billion at the worldwide box office!

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The biggest non-sequel animated film ever released and the second biggest animated film of all time globally, “Frozen” has earned an estimated $388.8 million at the U.S. box office and $611.5 million internationally for a global total of $1,000.3 million. It is The Walt Disney Studios’ seventh release to reach the $1 billion mark, joining “Marvel’s The Avengers” and “Iron Man 3,” Disney’s second and fourth “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, Disney•Pixar’s “Toy Story 3,” and Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland.”

Universally embraced by audiences and critics alike, Frozen is the winner of two Academy Awards®, for Best Animated Feature and Original Song (“Let It Go”). This the first animated feature Oscar® win for Walt Disney Animation Studios in the category’s 13-year history. The film has also won Golden Globe®, BAFTA, Critics’ Choice, and Producers Guild of America awards for best animated film, five Annie Awards, and four Visual Effects Society Awards, among many other honors. The film is directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee and produced by Peter Del Vecho.

Frozen opened in Singapore on November 28, 2013, and has earned close to SGD$5 million till date. "Golden Village Multiplex has been running the movie since opening day and is still currently playing at VivoCity, Plaza Singapura and Tampines Mall Golden Village cinemas.

With the popularity Frozen has garnered across all audiences, Cathay Cineplexes will be re-releasing Frozen at all 7 cinema locations this weekend – 8th & 9th March.

Internationally, Frozen is the biggest animated film released by The Walt Disney Studios in more than 25 territories! In Singapore, Frozen has become the #1 Disney and Pixar release of all time. In Korea, “Frozen” was #1 for the first five weeks of release and is now the biggest animated film, the second biggest non-local film, and Disney’s biggest release of all time. It’s also the highest-grossing animated film of all time in Denmark and Venezuela, and the biggest non-sequel animated film in the U.K./Ireland. “Frozen” debuts in one remaining international territory, Japan, on March 14.

The Platinum-certified Frozen soundtrack, featuring songs by Tony Award® winner Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and a score by Christophe Beck, returned to the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 album chart last week for a fifth time, the first soundtrack to do so since 1998. It entered the chart’s top five in early January and has been #1 or #2 for eight consecutive weeks. It also hit #1 on iTunes’ Overall Album Chart in 31 countries including the U.S. The Oscar®-winning song “Let It Go,” performed by Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, who voices Elsa in the film, is also certified Platinum and last week reached #18 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart.

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Disney's 'Frozen' Crosses $1 Billion Worldwide!