The highly successful 2014 film “Frozen” is based on a story by which author?
"books, a Disney on Ice show, and a short animated film. Disney has also announced that it is working on a Broadway stage musical adaptation, an animated film sequel, and a new book series. In November 2014, ""TheStreet.com"" explained that """"Frozen"" is no longer a movie, it's a global brand, a larger than life franchise built around products, theme parks and sequels that could last into the next century"". ""Boxoffice"" chief analyst Phil Contrino was quoted as saying ""it's become massive"". ""Frozen"" was released in 2013 and was based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale ""The Snow Queen"". The"
"Frozen (franchise) Frozen is a Disney media franchise started by the 2013 American animated feature film, ""Frozen"", which was directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee from a screenplay by Lee and produced by Peter Del Vecho, with songs by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. Walt Disney Animation Studios' chief creative officer John Lasseter served as the film's executive producer. The original film was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, ""The Snow Queen"". Since the film's release in November 2013, the franchise has expanded very rapidly. To date, the franchise includes various Disney theme park attractions, merchandise, video games,"
"Frozen (musical) Frozen is a musical with music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, and book by Jennifer Lee, based on the 2013 film of the same name. The story centers on the relationship between two sisters who are princesses, Elsa and Anna. Elsa has magical powers to freeze objects and people, which she does not know how to control. After inheriting the throne, Elsa flees, inadvertently causes the kingdom to become frozen in an eternal winter, and nearly kills her sister. She must sacrifice and show true love to save the day. Produced by Disney Theatrical Productions,"
"June 29, 2014, all five ranked among the Nielsen Top 20 bestselling books of 2014 in the U.S. market. By August, those five titles had collectively spent 148 weeks on ""USA Today""s list of the top 150 bestselling books in the United States, and Random House had sold over 8 million ""Frozen""-related books. That month, Random House announced a new series of four books by Erica David to be released in 2015; its first two installments, ""Anna & Elsa #1: All Hail the Queen"" and ""Anna & Elsa #2: Memory and Magic"", which extends the plot beyond the events shown"
"Jennifer Lee (filmmaker) Jennifer Michelle Lee (born October 22, 1971 as Jennifer Michelle Rebecchi) is an American screenwriter, film director, playwright, and chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios. She is best known as the writer and director of the 2013 Disney animated feature ""Frozen"", for which she earned an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Lee is the first female director of a Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film and the first female director of a feature film that earned more than $1 billion in gross box office revenue. Lee was born in October 22, 1971 to Linda"
"An adaptation of the Brothers Grimm's ""Rapunzel"" tale entitled ""Tangled"" was released in 2010, earning $591 million in worldwide box office revenue, and signified a return by the studio to fairytale-based features common in the traditional animation era. This trend was followed in 2013's global blockbuster hit ""Frozen"", a film inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Snow Queen"" tale, which released to widespread acclaim and was the first Disney animated film to earn over $1 billion in worldwide box office revenue and is currently the highest-grossing animated film of all time, surpassing Pixar's ""Toy Story 3"". ""Frozen"" also became the"
"On the Google Play Store, ""Frozen"" and its soundtrack album were also named ""Movie of the Year"" and ""Album of the Year"" respectively, i.e. the best-selling title in their respective areas. ""Frozen"" was also the second-most illegally downloaded film title of 2014 via BitTorrent file sharing protocol, with around 30 million downloads. After Disney announced in March 2015 that a feature-length sequel was in development, Agence France-Presse and the ""Toronto Star"" both published stories gently mocking the horror of parents everywhere at the news that another ""Frozen"" ""sensory and financial assault"" was in the pipeline. In January 2014, Iger announced"
"The Art of Frozen The Art of Frozen () is an art book about the 2013 Walt Disney Company animated feature film ""Frozen"". The book is part of ""The Art of..."" series that aims to depict behind-the-scenes information on the artwork created during the development of animated films. The ""Art of Frozen"" was written by Charles Solomon, with a preface by John Lasseter and a foreword by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee. It was published by Chronicle Books in November 2013. The information is divided into five sections (A Family Affair, Coronation, Wilderness, Ice Palace, and Return to Arendelle) which"
"Valley in California. Jennifer Lee (filmmaker) Jennifer Michelle Lee (born October 22, 1971 as Jennifer Michelle Rebecchi) is an American screenwriter, film director, playwright, and chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios. She is best known as the writer and director of the 2013 Disney animated feature ""Frozen"", for which she earned an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Lee is the first female director of a Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film and the first female director of a feature film that earned more than $1 billion in gross box office revenue. Lee was born in October 22,"
"visual companion; it’s an inspiration to my future as a filmmaker. "" The ""Austin Chronicle"" described the book as ""Disney's newest classic, taken back to its enchanting designs."" The Art of Frozen The Art of Frozen () is an art book about the 2013 Walt Disney Company animated feature film ""Frozen"". The book is part of ""The Art of..."" series that aims to depict behind-the-scenes information on the artwork created during the development of animated films. The ""Art of Frozen"" was written by Charles Solomon, with a preface by John Lasseter and a foreword by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee."
"received screen credit as one of the writers who developed the story for the 2016 film ""Zootopia"". In August 2014, ""Variety"" reported that Lee's next project after ""Frozen"" would be an adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's 1962 novel ""A Wrinkle in Time"". After the news broke, Lee tweeted: ""Been in love with the book for over 30 years. Writing this script means the world to me."" Catherine Hand, the executive producer of the 2003 television film version, and Jim Whitaker produced for Disney, and Ava DuVernay directed the film, based on Lee's script. ""A Wrinkle in Time"" was released in March"
"film since 2002) and achieved large weekend grosses from its fifth to its twelfth weekend (of wide release), compared to other films in their respective weekends. On April 25, 2014, ""Frozen"" became the nineteenth film to gross $400 million in North America and the fifteenth to do so without a major re-release. In North America, ""Frozen"" is the twenty-sixth-highest-grossing film, the third-highest-grossing 2013 film, the fifth-highest-grossing animated film, the highest-grossing 2013 animated film, the twelfth-highest-grossing 3-D film, and the second-highest-grossing Walt Disney Animation Studios film. Excluding re-releases, it has the highest-grossing initial run among non-sequel animated films (a record previously"
"Spy awarded the film five out of five stars and called the film ""a new Disney classic"" and ""an exhilarating, joyous, human story that's as frequently laugh-out-loud funny as it is startling and daring and poignant. Hot on the heels of the 90th anniversary, it's impossible to imagine a more perfect celebration of everything Disney is at its best."" ""Frozen"" was also praised in Norwegian Sámi media as showcasing Sámi culture to a broad audience in a good way. Composer Frode Fjellheim was lauded by Norwegian Sámi President Aili Keskitalo for his contributions to the film, during the President's 2014"
"and Molina reprised their roles for six more performances of the play, this time in the L.A. Theatre Works. These performances were recorded for broadcast on radio. In 2013, Groff voiced one of the lead roles in Disney's animated feature ""Frozen"". His character, Kristoff, is a rugged mountain man and ice trader. The film premiered on November 19, 2013. Following the film's massive commercial success and its ranking as the highest-grossing animated film of all time, the sixth highest-grossing film of all time, and the highest-grossing film of 2013, Groff reprised his role in the short film sequel ""Frozen Fever"","
"in the film as the sisters get to know each other, were released on January 6, 2015. They further plan to release three or four ""Frozen"" books a year in the future. In 2014, a ""Frozen""-themed entry in Charles Solomon's ""The Art of..."" series was also released titled The Art of Frozen, depicting behind the scenes information regarding the film's production, and numerous conceptual artworks that informed the final visual style of the piece. A comic book adaption of ""Frozen"" titled ""Frozen – Graphic Novel"" was released digitally on July 23, 2014, by Disney Press, and a print version was"
"that ""Frozen"" would be adapted into a Broadway stage musical. In the space of a single business quarter, Iger went from speaking of ""Frozen""s ""franchise potential"" (in February 2014) to saying that it was ""probably"" one of Disney's ""top five franchises"" (in May 2014). The film's massive popularity resulted in an unusually severe merchandise shortage in the United States and several other industrialized countries in April 2014, which caused resale prices for higher-quality limited-edition ""Frozen"" dolls and costumes to skyrocket past $1,000 on eBay. By the time the merchandise shortage was finally resolved in early November 2014 (nearly a year"
"Frozen (2010 American film) Frozen is a 2010 American thriller-drama film written and directed by Adam Green and starring Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore and Kevin Zegers. Childhood friends Dan Walker and Joe Lynch, along with Dan's girlfriend Parker O'Neil, spend a Sunday afternoon at a New England ski resort on Mount Holliston. They are eager to take one last run down the mountain before they go home; however, the ski resort decides to close early because a storm is moving in. The friends convince the ski lift attendant to let them on one last time. Before the group gets all"
"and respond to it, but there's no way we could have predicted this."" He cited a number of reasons for the film's popularity: ""There are characters that people relate to; the songs are so strong and memorable. We also have some flawed characters, which is what Jen[nifer Lee] and I like to do – we essentially create two imperfect princesses."" As ""Frozen"" approached the first anniversary of its release, Menzel mentioned the film's continuing popularity in an October 2014 interview: ""It's just a remarkable thing. Usually you do a project and it has its moment. This just feels like it"
"Phyllis Eisenstein Phyllis Eisenstein (born February 2, 1946) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels whose work has been nominated for both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. She is an old friend of author George R. R. Martin and convinced him to include dragons in his international best-selling fantasy series ""A Song of Ice and Fire"". Martin then dedicated the third novel in the series, ""A Storm of Swords"", to Eisenstein. Eisenstein was born in 1946 in Chicago, Illinois and has lived there most of her life. While attending college at the University"
"Winter (Meyer novel) Winter is a 2015 young adult science fiction novel written by American author Marissa Meyer and published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends. It is the fourth and final book in ""The Lunar Chronicles"" series and the sequel to ""Cress"". The story is loosely based on the fairy tale of ""Snow White"", similar to its predecessors ""Cinder"", ""Scarlet"" and ""Cress"" which were loosely based on ""Cinderella"", ""Little Red Riding Hood"" and ""Rapunzel"" respectively. It was a ""USA Today"" and ""Wall Street Journal"" bestselling novel. Due to Princess Winter's refusal to use the Lunar gift,"
"was abandoning traditional animation, an idea that the studio dismissed. That same year, ""Frozen"", a CGI musical film inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Snow Queen"", was released to widespread acclaim and became a blockbuster hit. Directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee with songs by the Broadway team of Robert Lopez & Kristen Anderson-Lopez, it was the first Disney animated film to earn over $1 billion in worldwide box office revenue and is currently the highest-grossing animated film of all time, surpassing Pixar's ""Toy Story 3"". ""Frozen"" also became the first film from Walt Disney Animation Studios to win"
"Original Song at the Academy Awards, a Grammy Award, the Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards and the Critics' Choice Awards, and also received Golden Globe Award, the Satellite Awards, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, and the Houston Film Critics Society Award nominations. ""Time"" ranked Elsa as the most influential fictional character of 2014. Elsa (Frozen) Queen Elsa of Arendelle is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Animation Studios' 53rd animated film ""Frozen"". She is voiced primarily by Broadway actress and singer Idina Menzel. At the beginning of the film, she is voiced by Eva Bella as a"
"""Frozen""s co-director, later recalled, ""The issue with the original for us in a lot of ways is it's a very symbolic story. It's very hard to translate symbolism into concrete things. Film is concrete, so you translate it."" After the success of ""Tangled"" (2010), on December 22, 2011, Disney announced a release date, November 27, 2013, for the film, together with a new title, ""Frozen"", and Peter Del Vecho and John Lasseter took up as the project's producers. Now, when the film was revived again, one of the main challenges that Buck and his team had to face with was"
"The novel was a ""New York Times"" Bestseller. A ""Juliet"" film is currently in production by Paramount/Montecito and director James Mangold. Fortier also co-produced the Emmy Award–winning documentary ""Fire and Ice: The Winter War of Finland and Russia"". Fortier holds a Ph.D. in the History of Ideas from Aarhus University, Denmark. During her studies she spent two terms at Corpus Christi College, Oxford as an Associate Graduate Member. Anne Fortier Anne Fortier is a Danish / Canadian writer who has lived in the US and Canada since 2002. She was born in 1971 in Holstebro to mother Birgit Malling Eriksen."
"plot twist in ""Frozen"", revealed in the film's final act. Despite the acclaim that the film has received, Hans' betrayal has been the subject of mixed reception from some critics. While the character's mastery of trickery and Fontana's performance have been praised, Hans' villainous reveal has been criticized for being too upsetting and confusing for the film's younger viewers. However, others have considered the character's shift in personality to be a valuable lesson that children can learn from. The Disney studio made their first attempts to adapt Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale, ""The Snow Queen"", as early as 1943, when Walt"
"Broadway show received mixed reviews. Jesse Green of ""The New York Times"" called the show ""rousing, often dull, alternately dopey"". He praised Levy's and Murin's performances as well as the set and lighting design but criticized the new musical numbers. Frozen (musical) Frozen is a musical with music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, and book by Jennifer Lee, based on the 2013 film of the same name. The story centers on the relationship between two sisters who are princesses, Elsa and Anna. Elsa has magical powers to freeze objects and people, which she does not know how"
"audiences. Orika Hiromura, Disney Japan's marketing project leader for ""Frozen"", said in an interview with ""The Wall Street Journal"": ""We really put effort into finding actors who could not only play the role but also belt out the tunes as well. We found the perfect match in Takako Matsu and Sayaka Kanda, and they really added a whole new dimension to the storytelling."" When asked about the success of ""Frozen"", director Chris Buck stated: ""We never expected anything like this. We just hoped to make a movie that did as well as ""Tangled""! I hoped the audience would embrace it"
"Song Written For Visual Media, with credits going to Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez as songwriters and Idina Menzel as performer. During the spring and summer of 2014, several journalists observed that ""Frozen"" was unusually catchy in comparison to the vast majority of films, in that many children in both the U.S. and the UK were watching ""Frozen"" so many times that they now knew all the songs by heart and kept singing them again and again at every opportunity, to the distress of their hapless parents, teachers, and classmates. Among the celebrities who disclosed they were the parent of"
"also won a ""Best Adapted Screenplay"" award from the Austin Film Critics Association in 2011. Amini was one of the screenwriters, along with Evan Daughtery and John Lee Hancock, who wrote the screenplay for ""Snow White and the Huntsman"" (2012), directed by Rupert Sanders and starring Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron. Additionally, Amini is one of the screenwriters, along with Chris Morgan and Walter Hamada, who wrote the screenplay for the film ""47 Ronin"" (2013), directed by Carl Rinsch and starring Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Rinko Kikuchi. Amini adapted John le Carré's novel"
"Northern Nights"" elsewhere), the shorts were compiled as a special and featured the returning voice talents of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, and Josh Gad. The special received 2.01 million viewers and ranked fifth for the night on cable. Frozen (franchise) Frozen is a Disney media franchise started by the 2013 American animated feature film, ""Frozen"", which was directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee from a screenplay by Lee and produced by Peter Del Vecho, with songs by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. Walt Disney Animation Studios' chief creative officer John Lasseter served as the film's executive producer."
"George R. R. Martin George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), also known as GRRM, is an American novelist and short story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for his series of epic fantasy novels, ""A Song of Ice and Fire"", which was adapted into the HBO series ""Game of Thrones"" (2011–present). In 2005, Lev Grossman of ""Time"" called Martin ""the American Tolkien"", and in 2011, he was included on the annual ""Time"" 100 list of the most influential people in the world. George Raymond"
"plagiarism and was the subject of a piece by Malcolm Gladwell published in ""The New Yorker"" and also collected in his book ""What the Dog Saw"". In addition she also adapted ""Treasure Island"", the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, into a play which was first performed on the Olivier Stage of the National Theatre, London, on 3 December 2014. Lavery grew up in Dewsbury. She was married to a man until her early thirties, but now identifies as gay. Bryony Lavery Bryony Lavery (born 1947) is a British dramatist, known for her successful and award-winning 1998 play ""Frozen"". In addition"
"cinematic history, the seventh Disney-distributed film, the fifth non-sequel film, the second Disney-distributed film in 2013 (after ""Iron Man 3""), and the first animated film since ""Toy Story 3"" to do so. ""Bloomberg Business"" reported in March 2014 that outside analysts had projected the film's total cost at somewhere around $323 million to $350 million for production, marketing, and distribution, and had also projected that the film would generate $1.3 billion in revenue from box office ticket sales, digital downloads, discs, and television rights. ""Frozen"" became Fandango's top advance ticket seller among original animated films, ahead of previous record-holder ""Brave"","