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Walt Disney and Paramount have reached an agreement for the future of the Indiana Jones franchise, giving Disney control over the very successful “Indiana Jones” franchise for all future films. However, Paramount will still retain rights to the first four films. In addition, Paramount “will receive a financial participation on any future films that are produced and release”  as released in a statement from the studios.

This deal seemingly paves the way for a new installment in the franchise, although no official news about a fifth installment in the adventure film series has been announced.

 

 

 

 

 

 

source:Hollywood Reporter

Disney’s “Frozen” Sets Thanksgiving Opening Record!

Disney’s Frozen, opening Wednesday, scored the top Thanksgiving debut of all time with a five-day gross of $93 million, eclipsing the $80.1 million five-day launch of Pixar’s Toy Story 2 in 1999. It also scored the top opening for a Disney Animation Studios title, besting the $68.7 million grossed by Tangled over Thanksgiving in 2010. For the three-day weekend, Frozen took in $74.5 million.
The film bested the previous Thanksgiving record holder, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” which earned $57.5 million in 2001 over a three-day period.

The wise words in Frozen are that “Only an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart.”

Frozen is indeed proof that the Disney we loved is, indeed, back…and back to melting hearts.

Loosely inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen, “Frozen” is the 53rd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It appears from early reviews the magic is back in the House of Mouse! Frozen is destined to join the Studio’s string of brilliant family friendly animated musicals that dominated the box office n the late ’80s and ’90s—The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin.

What the critics are saying…

Forbes – ‘Frozen’ Is Disney’s Triumphant Reaffirmation Of Its Cultural Legacy

ScreenCrush wrote that the songs in the movie are performed like Broadway show-stoppers and although there is a love triangle in the story, it is secondary to the primary goal of reuniting the two sisters.

IGN: Disney’s Best Animated Musical Since ‘Beauty and the Beast’  Read the full review 

Variety: ” Disney’s 53rd in-house animated feature and one of its most classical, with a Hans Christian Andersen pedigree, a full-fledged show tune score and little of the ironic humor that has become the lingua franca of most contemporary toons.

 New York Post

Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Snow Queen,” “Frozen” is a great big snowy pleasure with an emotionally gripping core, brilliant Broadway-style songs and a crafty plot. Its first and third acts are better than the jokey middle, but this is the rare example of a Walt Disney Animation Studios effort that reaches as deep as a Pixar film.

 Watch the Official Disney “Frozen” Trailer!  

 

The evil Maleficent is getting a MAC makeup line!

Disney has already signed up the Hollywood superstar, Angelina Jolie, and now it’s also signed up make-up superstar MAC Cosmetics  (Makeup Artist Cosmetics) to collaborate on a makeup line to coincide with the  new Walt Disney  Sleeping Beauty movie’s May 2014 release.

The Maleficent inspired line will be an 11 piece collection containing nail polish, face makeup, eye shadows and lip stick.