Still the highest grossing animated film of all time ($1.276 billion), Disney had high hopes for “Frozen,” but no one could have anticipated what a kind of smash runaway success the film was. Ask any parent, even if your child hadn’t even seen “Frozen,” chances are they already knew half the songs and the iconic “Let It Go” song thanks to their friends. Directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, and voiced by Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, and Santino Fontana, “Frozen” was an unabashed phenomenon upon its release in 2013. “Frozen” would also go on to win two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song (“Let It Go”; who will ever forget that Travolta moment?)
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Directed by Buck and Lee again, this time, the animated film centers on a new adventure: Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, and Olaf are going far in the forest to know the truth about an ancient mystery of their kingdom. Here’s the official synopsis which is admittedly not much of anything.
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From the Academy Award®-winning team—directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, and producer Peter Del Vecho—and featuring the voices of Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff and Josh Gad, and the music of Oscar®-winning songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Frozen 2” opens in U.S. theaters on Nov. 22, 2019.
Additions to the “Frozen 2” voice cast include Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld“) and Sterling K. Brown “Hotel Artemis,” “This Is Us“), but not a lot is known about their roles. Allison Schroeder wrote the screenplay this time and she’s known for penning “Hidden Figures” and “Christopher Robin” among others.
Set for a November 22, 2019 release, expectations will be different for “Frozen 2” this time and one assumes Disney will be betting on another billion-dollar-grosser that reaps in billions in merchandising. If there was an era when Disney princess films like “Tiana,” “Rapunzel,” “Mulan,” and “Pocahontas,” didn’t perform that well at the box office, it seems like that time is now dead and gone. Watch the new trailer below.