Disney Inks Huge Frozen 3 and Frozen 4 Pay Deal, With $60 Million Each For Kristen Bell, Josh Gad and Idina Menzel

The stars of Disney's Frozen franchise volition gain an tremendous $60 cardinal payout to instrumentality for some Frozen 3 and Frozen 4.

Kristen Bell, Josh Gad and Idina Menzel, who play Princess Anna, Olaf and Elsa, volition each pouch 1 of the highest fees for an animated relation successful history.

The payout includes an upfront lump sum arsenic good arsenic further awards tied to each sequels' container bureau performance, The Wrap has reported. (Disney declined to comment.) Still, the $60 cardinal fig connected the array for each of the trio has raised eyebrows, arsenic it is acold higher than the $15 cardinal earned by each histrion for Frozen 2.

Disney has precocious hopes for Frozen 3, pursuing the breakout occurrence of the franchise's archetypal 2 films. The archetypal Frozen earned $1.28 cardinal backmost successful 2013, an magnitude past topped by Frozen 2's $1.45 cardinal tally successful 2019.

Disney has released nary details of Frozen 3's plot, though has suggested the film's communicative volition beryllium large capable to dispersed crossed 2 movies — with Frozen 4 acceptable to wrapper up the communicative astatine immoderate constituent after. Fans person agelong been hoping that Frozen 3 volition yet springiness Elsa a emotion interest, portion there's an anticipation that the movie volition besides amusement Anna and Kristoff married.

First conception creation from Frozen 3 #D23 pic.twitter.com/N0CDBmWqbX

"Coming retired of Frozen 2, we inactive person immoderate questions," writer and manager Jennifer Lee teased backmost astatine D23 Expo past year, aft showing disconnected the movie's archetypal conception art. "A batch of questions actually. Now, you spot wherefore we request 2 films to archer this story."

The image, above, shows Elsa and Anna riding done a forest, with Olaf perched connected the backmost of Anna's horse. A floating metropolis successful the entity tin beryllium seen, which the 2 look to beryllium headed towards. An ominous horned fig holding a spear is besides disposable successful silhouette.

Frozen 3 is presently inactive 2 years away, and acceptable for merchandise connected November 24, 2027.

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