Today at their annual shareholder meeting
Disney introduced a new character,
Captain Obvious!
Who confirmed several things we've suspected for quite some time
and in some cases, outrightly already knew.
But with all these confirmations comes a few new bits of information
and we're going to discuss the two hot topics to come out of this shareholders conference
and that's Frozen 2 and some really big Star Wars information
in particular the spin-off and the release date for Episode 8.
So let's start off with Frozen 2!
Now everybody has assumed for quite some time
that they of course would be making a Frozen 2
it's been a huge financial juggernaut for the company
not just with the movie - which is the highest grossing animated film of all time
worldwide, 1.2 BILLION
but it's also been huge for them in merchandising
they can't make the merchandise fast enough
but then also it's been a huge boon to the theme parks
they've had Frozen Summer Fun last year, they've had Olaf do a big even over
in California Adventure most recently
and then they have a big Summer Fun promotion that they've just launched
for this summer!
With Olaf at the center of it.
So they want to keep this gravy train going
and of course Frozen 2 is a great way to do that.
Now the reason it's only been confirmed now
is that for the last couple of months when asked about it
the powers that be at Disney Animation and most notably the directors of the original Frozen
uh, let's see, I have their names here
Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
they had said we're not sure where to go with this sequel
we're thinking about it
uh y'know it's a tough decision to make.