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Frozen Fever
''Frozen Fever'' is a 2015 American computer-animated musical fantasy short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. A follow-up to the 2013 feature film '' Frozen'', the short follows Elsa as she attempts to throw a surprise party for her sister Anna with the help of Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf. Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee again served as the directors with Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, and Josh Gad reprising their roles from the first film. Production on ''Frozen Fever'' began in June 2014 and took six months to complete. The film debuted in theaters alongside Walt Disney Pictures' live-action remake of ''Cinderella'' on March 13, 2015. It received positive reviews from critics, along with praise for its original song "Making Today a Perfect Day" by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. Plot One year after the events of '' Frozen'', Queen Elsa is determined to give her younger sister, Anna, a perfect surprise birthd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Buck
Christopher James Buck (born February 24, 1958) is an American film director, animator, and screenwriter known for co-directing ''Tarzan'' (1999), '' Surf's Up'' (2007) (which was nominated for the 2007 Oscar for Best Animated Feature), '' Frozen'' (2013), which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2014, and ''Frozen II'' (2019). He also worked as a supervising animator and story artist on ''Pocahontas'' (1995) and ''Home on the Range'' (2004). He has won for one Academy Award, Annie Award and BAFTA Award, and has been nominated for two Academy, two BAFTA and five Annie Awards. Life and career A native of Wichita, Kansas, Buck was inspired to explore animation by the first film he ever saw in a movie theatre as a child: ''Pinocchio'' (1940). His family eventually moved to Placentia, California, where he graduated from El Dorado High School. Buck studied character animation for two years at CalArts, where he also taught from 1988 to 1993. At CalArts, Buck became frie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Film
A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits". In the United States, short films were generally termed short subjects from the 1920s into the 1970s when confined to two 35 mm reels or less, and featurettes for a film of three or four reels. "Short" was an abbreviation for either term. The increasingly rare industry term "short subject" carries more of an assumption that the film is shown as part of a presentation along with a feature film. Short films are often screened at local, national, or international film festivals and made by independent filmmakers with either a low budget or no budget at all. They are usually funded by film grants, nonprofit organizations, sponsor, or personal funds. Short films are generally used for industry experience and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Williams (director)
Chris Williams (born December 19, 1968) is an American animator, film director, screenwriter and voice actor who directed the short film ''Glago's Guest''; co-directed '' Bolt'', which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature; '' Big Hero 6'', which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature; '' Moana'', which was nominated for two Oscars for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song; and '' The Sea Beast''. Early life Williams was born on December 19, 1968, in Missouri and spent the first 25 years of his life in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where his father was the director of Counselling Services at the University of Waterloo. Williams graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Fine Arts and then enrolled in the animation program at Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario. Upon graduation from Sheridan, he was recruited by Disney and moved to Los Angeles. Career Williams previously worked in the story department for ''Mulan'' (1998), ''The Emperor's New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans (Frozen)
Prince Hans of the Southern Isles is a fictional character from Walt Disney Animation Studios' animated film '' Frozen''. He is voiced by Santino Fontana in the film. Hans is the thirteenth prince of the Southern Isles. Knowing that he will be unable to inherit the throne of his own country, he concocts a scheme to usurp the throne of another country through marriage. Although he is portrayed as honest and noble throughout most of the film, he is later revealed to be deceptive, calculating, and cruel in nature. Hans' villainy is a plot twist in ''Frozen'', revealed in the film's final act. Despite the acclaim that the film has received, Hans' betrayal has been the subject of mixed reception from some critics. While the character's mastery of trickery and Fontana's performance have been praised, Hans' villainous reveal has been criticized for being too upsetting and confusing for the film's younger viewers. However, others have considered the character's shift in personality to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphorn
The alphorn or alpenhorn or alpine horn is a labrophone, consisting of a straight several-meter-long wooden natural horn of conical bore, with a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece. Traditionally the Alphorn was made of one single piece, or two parts at most, and made from the wood of a red pine tree. Sometimes the trees would bend from the weight of snow during the wintertime, and this caused them to have the larger and bent mouthpiece at their ends. Modern Alphorns are sometimes made from three distinct parts that can be stuck together, this is to make them easier to transport via automobile, or even carried by hand, and today are more frequently made from the wood of a spruce tree or fir tree. It is used by mountain dwellers in the Swiss Alps. Similar wooden horns were used for communication in most mountainous regions of Europe, from the Alps to the Carpathians. Alphorns are today used as musical instruments. Alphabetical musical instruments History For a long time, scholars b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Common Cold
The common cold or the cold is a viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract that primarily affects the respiratory mucosa of the nose, throat, sinuses, and larynx. Signs and symptoms may appear fewer than two days after exposure to the virus. These may include coughing, sore throat, runny nose, sneezing, headache, and fever. People usually recover in seven to ten days, but some symptoms may last up to three weeks. Occasionally, those with other health problems may develop pneumonia. Well over 200 virus strains are implicated in causing the common cold, with rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, adenoviruses and enteroviruses being the most common. They spread through the air during close contact with infected people or indirectly through contact with objects in the environment, followed by transfer to the mouth or nose. Risk factors include going to child care facilities, not sleeping well, and psychological stress. The symptoms are mostly due to the body's immune ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lopez
Robert Lopez (born February 23, 1975) is an American songwriter for musicals, best known for co-creating ''The Book of Mormon'' and '' Avenue Q'', and for co-writing the songs featured in the Disney computer-animated films '' Frozen'', its sequel, ''Frozen II'', and '' Coco'', with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez. He is one of only seventeen people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award, nicknamed by Philip Michael Thomas in 1984 as the " EGOT". He additionally holds the distinctions of being the youngest person to win an EGOT, and winning the awards across the shortest period of time: he won all four in the span of ten years and completed the set at the age of 39. He is also the only person to have won all four awards more than once, having won three Emmys, Grammys, and Tonys, and two Oscars. Early life Robert Lopez was born in Manhattan, to Katherine (Lowe) and Frank Lopez. He is partly of Filipino descent through his father (who was born on a ship in the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristen Anderson-Lopez
Kristen Anderson-Lopez (born March 21, 1972) is an American songwriter and lyricist known for co-writing the songs for the 2013 computer-animated musical film '' Frozen'' and its 2019 sequel ''Frozen II'' with her husband Robert Lopez. The couple won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Let It Go" from ''Frozen'' and " Remember Me" from '' Coco'' (2017) at the 86th and 90th awards respectively. She also won two Grammy Awards at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. Personal life Anderson-Lopez was raised in Croton-on-Hudson, New York (a suburb of New York City), until 1986; the Myers Park neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1986 to 1990; and Waxhaw, North Carolina (a suburb of Charlotte), from 1990 onward (which was her home during her college years). Her parents, Erin and John, still live in Waxhaw. According to her father, Anderson-Lopez first fell in love with the theater at the age of four, when he took her to see a U.S. Bicentennial musical tribute staged i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Making Today A Perfect Day
"Making Today a Perfect Day" is a song from the 2015 Walt Disney Animation Studios computer-animated short film ''Frozen Fever'', with music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez and performed throughout most of the short. It was released as a single in the United States on March 12, 2015. Production and writing On September 2, 2014, during the ABC airing of '' The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic'', Walt Disney Animation Studios' chief creative officer John Lasseter announced that a ''Frozen'' short film with a new song would be released in the future. On the same day, ''Variety'' announced that the short would be released in early 2015 under the title ''Frozen Fever'', with Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee returning as co-directors, Peter Del Vecho returning as producer and a new song by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. In a mid-October interview, Idina Menzel revealed that the cast had already recorded their vocal tracks, stating "We just w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olaf (Frozen)
Olaf is a fictional character from Disney's '' Frozen'' franchise, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Olaf is first presented in the 53rd animated film '' Frozen'' (2013) as an inanimate snowman created by Elsa and Anna in their childhood. He then reappears as a character in the film as Anna searches for her runaway sister in hopes of restoring summer. Olaf is recreated by Elsa as she accidentally plunges Arendelle into an eternal winter. Olaf helps Anna and Kristoff find Elsa and journeys with them all the way back to the kingdom, where he remains part of the sisters' lives and appears again in the 2019 film, ''Frozen II''. He is voiced by Josh Gad. Development Origins and concept The Disney studio made their first attempts to adapt Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale, "The Snow Queen", as early as 1943, when Walt Disney considered the possibility of producing a biography film of the author. However, the story and the characters proved to be too symbolic and posed un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sven (Frozen)
Sven is a fictional character who appears in the animated feature film '' Frozen'' (2013) and its sequel ''Frozen II'' (2019), produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is a reindeer that lives together with his companion, Kristoff. Sven, alongside Kristoff, assists princess Anna in her search for her sister, queen Elsa, who has run away after placing the kingdom of Arendelle under an eternal winter. During their adventure, Sven also meets and befriends a living snowman, Olaf. Years after the events from the first film, Sven and the others go in search of a mysterious voice heard by Elsa. In the course of the journey, Sven meets other reindeer. Besides the two films, Sven is also present in the short film ''Frozen Fever'' (2015) and the featurette ''Olaf's Frozen Adventure'' (2017). Sven was created by ''Frozen'' directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee. In the making of Sven's character, the animation team brought a real-life reindeer into the studio in order to study its be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristoff (Frozen)
Kristoff Bjorgman is a fictional character in Walt Disney Animation Studios' ''Frozen'' franchise. He appeared in the animated features '' Frozen'' (2013) and ''Frozen II'' (2019), and the animated short films ''Frozen Fever'' (2015) and ''Olaf's Frozen Adventure'' (2017). He is voiced primarily by Jonathan Groff. Kristoff is a Sámi iceman who lives together with his reindeer companion Sven. Albeit preferring a solitary life, he helps Princess Anna of Arendelle to find her older sister Elsa in the North Mountain. Development Origins and conception In the early development, Kristoff was originally Kai as in Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen", but later he was designed as combination of Kai and the robber girl. Voice He is primarily voiced by Jonathan Groff, while he's voiced as a child by Tyree Brown. Physical appearance Kristoff is tall, rugged, handsome, and in his early twenties. His build is a distinct variation on most Disney heroes. He has broad shoulders, la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
