{"id":2541,"date":"2013-12-01T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2013-12-01T19:18:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T00:18:38","slug":"fire-and-ice-at-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2013\/12\/01\/fire-and-ice-at-the-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire and Ice at the Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Disney’s Frozen<\/em>, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s\u00a0Snow Queen<\/em>, has joined with Catching Fire<\/em> to top this weekend’s box office. \u00a0And here’s Steven Holden reviewing\u00a0Frozen:<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/27\/movies\/disneys-frozen-a-makeover-of-the-snow-queen.html<\/p>\n

Black Friday<\/a>\u00a0arrived at the box office this Thanksgiving weekend with moviegoers showing sustained appetite for leftovers. In its second weekend in theaters, \u201cThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire<\/a>\u201d is on a course to not only come in first; it may score one of the most robust opening weekends in movie history.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The sci-fi sequel to 2012\u2019s \u201cThe Hunger Games,\u201d \u00a0\u201cCatching Fire\u201d hauled in $31.2 million Friday, putting it in position to smash the five-day Thanksgiving holiday record — of $82 million held by \u201cHarry Potter and the Sorcerer\u2019s Stone\u201d — with a projected $113 million gross. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The Disney animated kids\u2019 flick \u201cFrozen<\/a>\u201d took in a robust $26.8 million for second place, also putting the Hans Christian Andersen-based fairy tale film on track to break the \u201cSorcerer\u2019s Stone\u201d record with a projected five-day take of around $93 million<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/moviesnow\/la-et-mn-holiday-box-office-catching-fire-and-frozen-on-track-to-break-record-20131130,0,7037146.story#ixzz2mF1G9G3C<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here for the\u00a0Frozen<\/a>\u00a0trailer.<\/p>\n

And here’s Brooks Barnes on the \u00a0Frozen<\/em> and how it was marketed to girls\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>boys:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/02\/movies\/frozen-disneys-new-fairy-tale-is-no-2-at-box-office.html?hp<\/p>\n

For \u201cFrozen,\u201d very loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale\u00a0\u201cThe Snow Queen,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Disney\u2019s marketing ploys seemed to work. About 43 percent of the opening-weekend audience for the movie was male, according to exit polls. To compare, the first weekend of \u201cTangled\u201d drew a crowd that was 39 percent male.<\/p>\n

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Disney’s Frozen, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s\u00a0Snow Queen, has joined with Catching Fire to top this weekend’s box office. \u00a0And here’s Steven Holden reviewing\u00a0Frozen: http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/27\/movies\/disneys-frozen-a-makeover-of-the-snow-queen.html Black Friday\u00a0arrived at the box office this Thanksgiving weekend with moviegoers showing sustained appetite for leftovers. In its second weekend in theaters, \u201cThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire\u201d is on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}