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Grammy winner and Tony nominee Josh Gad has signed with CAA. The actor is best known for voicing Olaf in the Frozen franchise, for which he won a Grammy; his Tony Award-nominated role as Elder Arnold Cunningham in the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon; and his performance as LeFou in the live-action adaptation of…

A cellphone video of a little Ukrainian girl named Amelia singing a sweet and defiant rendition of Frozen‘s “Let It Go” from a bomb shelter in Kyiv has been viewed by many thousands since going viral yesterday, with no less than the film’s original Elsa – Idina Menzel – taking notice. “We see you,” Menzel tweeted. “We…

Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz says today’s acquisition of rights to make dolls and toys stemming from Disney’s princess and Frozen will arm the company with more recognizable properties in a crowded marketplace. “The importance of big franchises is going to become more critical than ever,” CEO Ynon Kreiz, who told Deadline in…

Starting in 2023, Mattel will return to making Disney Princess and Frozen toys. Today the toymaker announced a multi-year global licensing agreement with Disney for its Princess and Frozen lines, to develop lines of toys for the studio’s Consumer Products, Games and Publishing, including fashion dolls, small dolls…

Sayaka Kanda, a voice-over actress and singer who voiced Anna in the dubbed Japanese version of Disney’s Frozen, was found dead on Saturday at a hotel in Sapporo. She was 35. According to local media reports, Kanda, the daughter of actor Masaki Kanda and singer Seiko Matsuda did not show up for an afternoon…

Chelsea Winstanley, the New Zealand producer whose credits include Jojo Rabbit and What We Do In The Shadows, has opened a public casting to find voice actors from the Maori community for her re-dubbing of Disney classic The Lion King. Lion King Reo Māori will celebrate a variety of mita (dialects) through different…

Disney has announced a new Frozen animated short that will delve into the origins of the beloved summer-loving snowman Olaf. The short, Once Upon A Snowman, will premiere exclusively on Disney+ on October 23. Once Upon A Snowman explores — What happened to Olaf within the moments after Elsa created him as she was…

Actress Patti Murin, who created the role of Anna in Disney’s Broadway musical Frozen, says she likely has COVID-19. In an Instagram post, Murin writes, “Even Disney princesses can get sick.” Murin, who is married to Chicago Med actor Colin Donnell, is pregnant with a delivery date in July, and notes in her post…

If physical production on live-action feature films can’t take place now, well, then animation will definitely make do. Disney Animation dropped the first in a series of digital weekly shorts, At Home With Olaf, today which you can watch below. They were created by Olaf animator Hyrum Osmond and voiced by the snowman…

UPDATED with video: Saturday Night Live has been skewering Disney for decades (remember Lindsey Lohan in Real Housewives of Disney in 2012? Or Debbie Downer aT Disney World in 2004?) and this weekend’s edition used the studio’s billion-dollar animated hit Frozen 2 to lob some satirical snowballs at corporate Hollywood…

NBC’s A Little Late with Lilly Singh host had some fun with those Disney+ “outdated cultural depictions” disclaimers that accompany some old animated product like Dumbo and The Aristocats. “Outdated, because we all know racism is dead in 2019,” mocks Singh. The disclaimers set up a bit in which the Little Late host…

In 2013’s $1.28B worldwide grossing Oscar winner Frozen, Queen Elsa feared her powers were too much for the world. Now, in Frozen 2, she must hope they are enough. Disney just dropped a new trailer for the sequel (check it out above) wherein the answer to why Elsa was born with those powers is calling her — and…