Loosely adapted from a Hans Christian Andersen story called "The Snow Queen," it tells the story of two sisters. Inhabiting the fictional kingdom of Arendelle, Elsa is next in line to become the queen, while her sister, Anna, is more of a fun-loving free spirit. Here's the twist. Elsa is what they call a cryokinetic, which means she's able to unleash icy blasts from her fingertips anytime she gets either nervous, anxious or angry. Due to this gift/curse, Elsa accidentally causes Arendelle to enter into an eternal state of winter. Whoops. Cryokinetics are so careless sometimes.
TOKYO — Frozen took another ?827 million ($8 million) over the weekend at the Japanese box office, taking its cumulative total to $104.6 million from more than 8.67 million admissions, after six weeks at No. 1.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier opened in a distant second, taking $2 million from 143,000 admissions, making it a bumper weekend for Disney in Japan.
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In 2010, the last time Hollywood had a strong year at the Japanese box office, Alice in Wonderland finished with $115 million, while Toy Story 3 clocked up $108 million. Frozen is on course to pass its two Disney stablemates by the end of the month, following the upcoming release of the dubbed 3D version on April 26.
Frozen dropped only 1.8 percent last weekend, and at its current pace will overtake Hayao Miyazaki‘s The Wind Rises, which was the highest-grossing film in Japan in 2013 with $120 million, and then Armageddon, Walt Disney Studios Japan’s biggest hit ever, with $131.6 million in 1998.
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Frozen and Captain America 2 will have competition from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which opens in Japan on Friday, one of the last major territories for the Sony blockbuster.
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