Disney’s animated tale of two princess sisters is the fifth- highest grossing film ever. With parents fighting in shops for its spin-off dolls, how did it become an object of obsession, asks Ed Power

It’s not a Frozen sequel, but the characters from the hit animated film will return in Frozen Fever, a short set to debut in spring 2015.

Disney is to make a short film follow-up to 'Frozen'.

Kristen Bell wanted to create a heroine who is "flawed and goofy" for 'Frozen'.

They say the journey is more important than the destination, and that’s never truer than in an Alexander Payne movie.

Video games based on films allow audiences to put themselves in the thick of the action from their favourite Hollywood blockbusters and animated features. It’s a marriage made in merchandising heaven.

The Ted Walsh-trained Battlefront cemented his position as this season’s champion point-to-pointer by destroying the opposition in the ladies open at the first session of the Ormond Foxhounds meeting at Ballingarry, Co Tipperary yesterday.

The Robert Tyner-trained Embracing Change is virtually unbeatable at Dromahane and the seven-year-old recorded his fifth victory at the popular north Cork venue at yesterday’s Kanturk – Duhallow meeting by destroying the opposition in a vintage renewal of the open.

The shockwaves from Greece’s failure to form a coalition government have continued to reverberate around markets, though upbeat US economic indicators gave the more positive-minded investor something to latch on to.

CONSIDERING the dreadful weather for much of the week, the hugely successful seven-day Listowel Festival was completed in style yesterday, with the overall attendance a highly satisfactory 87,000.

Richard Pryor's daughter Rain has slammed her stepmother, Jennifer Lee Pryor - accusing her of failing to adequately care for the ailing comedian.

LIZ DOYLE, who has just returned after being sidelined for six weeks due to injury, took the Open Lightweight Race (confined to lady riders) at the West Carbery Hunt Point-to-Point at Skibbereen on Saturday on her own Sober Performance (evens to 4-6).