Movie Box Office Results 2014: The Disney animated film "Frozen" crossed the $400 million mark at the domestic box office on Friday in its 23rd week. Earning $1.1 billion worldwide, the princess tale recently became the highest-grossing animated flick of all time. With $1.13b worldwide, it is presently sitting at 6th, slot in 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, Forbes reported. "Avatar" holds the number one spot with $2.8 million according to Variety.
The film is earning much since its release. The film crossed $1 billion about a month ago and continues to move higher up the all-time grossers list. As described by Forbes, "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 doesn't 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 wasn't just a predetermined smash hit. Frozen touched a nerve around the world in a way few films do today."
According to Forbes, "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 year's 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. 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."
"Frozen" also stayed in the domestic top ten for 17 weeks. It opened to $93 million over Thanksgiving weekend.
The movie is still playing in 227 theaters and made $39,000 on Friday.
