It’s not Frozen 2, but it is something to hold you over until the sequel is announced.
In new short Frozen Fever, it’s Anna’s birthday and Elsa and Kristoff are determined to give her the best celebration ever, but when Elsa catches a cold, her powers may put more than just the party at risk.
The highly-anticipated follow-up short to the global phenomenon Frozen can be seen exclusively in theaters with Disney’s new live-action Cinderella, starring Lily James and Academy Award-winner Cate Blanchett, on March 13, 2015. Frozen is the fifth highest grossing film of all time and the highest grossing animated film earning more than $1.27 billion globally.
Just last month at the 2015 Grammy Awards songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez won another Grammy for their work on Frozen in the category Best Compilation Song For Visual Media. Read what they told reporters after their big win:
How does this win feel?
Robert Lopez: It’s amazing. It’s wonderful to have a movie that’s been so embraced by public now and be validated by the Recording Academy. It’s a record that we enjoyed making so much, and that was the product of so many talents.
Kristen Anderson-Lopez: I’m really excited because it’s a story about two girls and a female relationship … two of the four on the writing team are female. That’s a pretty significant thing in a world that’s mostly males and about male stories.
What has the public reception been like to “Let It Go”?
Kristen Anderson-Lopez: What’s so interesting about this song is that, we do of course, over a year later, get the people who really love it and then you get the people who tolerate it. What’s so amazing is that, the people who really love it … I’ve had people reach out to us and say that, they were about to commit suicide and they heard this song and they didn’t feel alone.
I’ve had an occupational therapist reach out to me and say, that there’s a toddler who has no brain activity except when she hums “Let It Go.” Then, that allows her to communicate. You hear these incredible stories, and that inspires you. When you have all the parents coming up like, “Ugh, that song … I’ve got a doll that plays that song.” It helps you keep going and get really excited about writing the next one.
Robert Lopez: I think even more than that, the Will Ferrell lip sync, hands down was really good.
When you were writing did you realize how special it would be?
Kristen Anderson-Lopez: You start writing … it’s solving a puzzle. It’s similar to the crossword puzzle. You’ve got a character. You need the song to fit the story. Of course, what happens is you start putting in things from your own life and we were walking around Prospect Park, and Bobby was like, “Elsa is like that straight A student who was under so much pressure, who couldn’t fail.” Then I was like, “I feel like Elsa is like every woman trying to live up to these expectations for body image.”
We put our own experience on it. I think that what’s been amazing is how that feeling of fear and having that clinched-down feeling of fear and once you let go of that, and you can find your own power, that’s pretty universal. We put our own experiences into it.
We keep joking that hopefully, when we’re really old, people would want to talk to us still. It’s an amazing gift that we get from the fans when we go to a birthday party and they’re all wearing Elsa dresses. Again, like I said, it just inspires us to try and keep growing and evolving, and tell stories.
Here’s another thing. I just want to say, which is, I want to really shout out to the Record Academy for thanking a compilation album and for supporting these musical stories, because there are so few of them, but to give us validation and that really means a lot. Thank you.
