LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- Disney's tentpole "Frozen 2" easily maintained its reign for the third weekend in a row, collecting 34.67 million U.S. dollars for a North American cume of 337.6 million dollars.
The animated fantasy is the third film so far this year to win the North American box office for three consecutive weekends, behind Universal's superhero thriller "Glass" and Disney's superhero film "Avengers: Endgame."
Internationally, the film brought in 90.2 million dollars in 45 territories for a global third weekend of 124.9 million dollars and a global cume to date of 919.7 million dollars, according to studio figures collected by measurement firm Comscore.
"Frozen 2" arrived six years after the original "Frozen." The film features the return of the Academy Award-winning team -- directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck and the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Evan Rachel Wood, Josh Gad and Jonathan Groff. It brings back Anna, Elsa, Olaf, and Kristoff, as they venture beyond the kingdom of Arendelle to find out why Elsa was born with magical powers.
"Frozen 2" is on track to be the sixth Disney film this year to hit the coveted 1-billion-dollar mark at the worldwide box office. Disney is already the first studio to have five 1-billion-dollar movies in a year for 2019.
Disney has raked in 9.997 billion dollars to date worldwide and will cross the 10-billion-dollar mark within the next day. It's a new record for the worldwide box office for any studio in a calendar year, far exceeding Disney's own record of 7.61 billion dollars in 2016, according to the deadline, an online news site for entertainment industry news. Enditem
