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It was mere days ago (only two) that the producers and co-director of Frozen appeared at a press conference hyping the short Frozen Fever and said there were no plans for a Frozen 2 at that time. 48 hours later, this very morning at a shareholder’s meeting, Bob Iger and John Lasseter finally copped to it: yes, they’re going to make another one. They weren’t specific beyond that, but the greenlight could have very well come down hours ago. I’m all for respecting the creative process above all other concerns, but I’ll be honest and say the silence coming from Disney as to whether anything else would be done with Frozen besides a 7-minute short felt bizarre. To be a multinational corporation and ignore THIS kind of cultural phenomenon is nothing short of insanity. (How do Capcom and Square DO THIS all the time? It must take a lot of willpower.) No doubt cash was a motivation here. But it’s a different Disney than the dark days when Michael Eisner