SAN FRANCISCO — The blizzard continues: “Frozen 2” is coming to theaters.
The Walt Disney Company on Thursday used its annual shareholder meeting to make several movie announcements, the biggest being about a big-screen follow-up to “Frozen,” the animated musical that took in more than $1.3 billion globally in 2013.
Disney provided no details about the story or a release date but said the directors and producer of the first film would return for the second.
A sequel helps assure the long-term viability of what has become one of Disney’s most crucial franchises.
Sales of “Frozen”-related merchandise now total roughly $1 billion annually, and helped power Disney to a record $7.5 billion in profit last year. “Frozen” has also been fast-tracked for Broadway, and a Florida theme park attraction is in the works.
“We’re going back to Arendelle,” John Lasseter, chief creative officer for Walt Disney Animation Studios, told the crowd, referring to the kingdom in “Frozen.” The film follows two Nordic princesses, one of whom has the magical power — not always controllable — to conjure snowstorms, and their goofball snowman sidekick, Olaf.
Disney is trying to use “Frozen” to drive ticket sales for its next live-action movie, “Cinderella,” which opens on Friday and is expected to take in at least $65 million over its first three days. “Cinderella” will be shown with a new animated short called “Frozen Fever,” which finds one of the princesses, Elsa, with a bothersome cold.
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