Didn't think this would happen when Frozen was released but it crossed the $400 million domestic box office mark this Friday. Check out the very interesting article from Forbes, below.
Frozen was 13th on Friday, and hit $400,024,000 domestically... on it's 155th day of release. It is interesting that Frozen is still on hundreds of screens and is in or near the top 20 when it has been out for so long. Also, Frozen is the 15th movie to reach $400 mil on its original run, without re-releases, 19th overall.
Worldwide total is $1,133,431,000 and we will see where things stand when the weekend is over. Will Frozen have a 6th weekend in a row as the number one movie in Japan? I expect Frozen to really climb on domestic and international charts in two years from now when Disney does a special Christmas re-release with sing-along including a teaser for Frozen 2.
The soundtrack was number one for the 11th week and with the highest number of sales so far (The exact opposite of typical performance which peaks at opening and then declines.) It has now surpassed the Lion King, is one of the biggest animated or movie soundtracks. It is unknown how many more weeks it may remain on top. Here is an article on the music charts:
http://www.playbill.com/news/articl...lboard-200-Scoring-Biggest-Sales-Week-to-Date
This is very good article (on Forbes) that covers some stats but discusses the reason for the success of Frozen.
"Frozen touched a nerve around the world in a way few films do today." I think, because of this, it will amaze and set records in re-release in a few years.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2014/04/26/box-office-disneys-frozen-tops-400m/
Media & Entertainment 4/26/2014 @ 11:48AM 6,575 views
Box Office: Disney's 'Frozen' Tops $400M
On its 155th day of domestic release,
Walt Disneys animated smash
Frozen has crossed $400 million at the
domestic box office. Coming off a $67 million Fri-Sun debut over its $93m Thanksgiving weekend opening, the film has earned a mammoth 5.9x its opening weekend number. And while rank doesnt matter per-se, its 17-week hold in the top ten brings to mind the kind of old-school hits like
Ghostbusters and
Back to the Future that used to just play for months and months on end.
Heck,
Frozen has been out on
VOD since February 25th and available on DVD since March 18th.
Frozen has actually earned $15.7m since its VOD release and $3.3m since it dropped on DVD/Blu-Ray and sold 3.8 million copies in a single day. This wasnt just a predetermined smash hit.
Frozen touched a nerve around the world in a way few films do today.
The film crossed $1 billion about a month ago and continues to move higher up the all-time grossers list. With $1.13b worldwide, it is currently sitting at 6th, sandwiched between
Iron Man 3 ($1.2b) and
Transformers: Dark of the Moon ($1.12b).It was already the biggest-grossing non-sequel not directed by
James Cameron. In America, the picture is a little more complicated. While the worldwide grossers list is tilted towards recent 3D-infused sequels, the top grossers list in America is still dominated by somewhat original properties. As such,
Frozen is the 19th film to cross $400m in 16 years and the ninth non-sequel to do so, behind
Jurassic Park (aided by last years 3D-reissue),
Spider-Man,
The Hunger Games,
The Lion King (aided by 2011′s 3D-reissue),
E.T. (aided by multiple reissues),
Star Wars (more reissues that you can count),
Titanic, and
Avatar.
In terms of first-release only,
Frozen is actually the fifteenth-biggest grosser in America and the fifth-biggest non-sequel. If you want to get specific,
Frozen is the sixth-highest-grossing film in America not based on a known property that made it into a presold blockbuster, behind
The Lion King Star Wars,
E.T., and the
James Cameron duo. As someone who started keeping track of box office back when
Batmans $250m domestic gross was enough for a spot on the top-five, its a little refreshing to kind an example of where $400 million in domestic grosses is still both surprising and a result of old-school zeitgeist as opposed to massive openings so large as to get them over the hump with just the slightest of legs.
The first film to cross $400 million domestic was actually
Star Wars, which used the $136 million earned by its special edition reissue in 1997 to push it over the hump.
Titanic followed that December to cross not just $400m but also $500m and $600m, a feat not bested until
The Dark Knight ($533m) in 2008 and
The Avengers ($623m) in 2012. Well, aside from
Avatar in 2009, which earned $760m. Like the $1 billion worldwide grosser, the $400m benchmark was once an unfathomable milestone that went from plausible to almost expected for the very biggest films in just under a decade.
But that doesnt make the milestone any less impressive for
Frozen, especially considering the demographics. As you look at that top-grossers list, you dont find very many female-centric pictures. Youve got the Leonardio DiCaprio/Kate Winslet-starring
Titanic, the action-centric
The Hunger Games, and male-skewing films that played well to both genders (pretty much anything that goes that high needs gender-neutral appeal).
Frozen is the only unapologetic chick flick on the $400m list that had no male heartthrob, mass destruction, or hard action to sell. It is a film not just about a lone woman in a (stereotypically) male-centric genre (war, action, etc.), but about women and with little to entice the male gender beyond its quality.
So yes,
Frozen should be celebrated as a box office milestone, both in terms of its final gross, in terms of how it made its money (slowly, fueled by word of mouth), and how it bucked conventional wisdom (its an unapologetically female-centric fairy tale). Its proven yet again that a female-centric film can reach just as high on the blockbuster scale as a conventionally male-centric one. It has helped make the gender divide in popular entertainment a part of the common conversation, to the point where
LEGO Movie 2 director Chris McKay admitted to
The Daily Mail, apparently without prompting, that his sequel would correct the gender imbalance found in the first smash hit.
Frozens success is more than just another preordained blockbuster in fact becoming a blockbuster. Its a film that opened well and then kept on chugging because audiences loved it, and because the market craved it. Thats why it matters.
Enjoy. Just had my 9th viewing tonight with my niece and her daughter, bunch of kids last night. 
