As Disney readies the sequels to its uber-grossing $1.75 billion Frozen franchise, Walt Disney Animation Studios Chief Artistic Officer Jennifer Lee is segueing from her place to direct and write Frozen 3 and pen Frozen 4 with Marc Smith. Efficient instantly, Oscar profitable Encanto filmmaker Jared Bush has been named CCO of Walt Disney Animation Studios, reporting to Disney Leisure Co-Chairman Alan Bergman.
Frozen 3 is dated for Nov. 24, 2027.
Lee has served as CCO for the division since 2018. Thirty-year Disney veteran and Oscar-winning producer Clark Spencer continues as President, Walt Disney Animation Studios.
“Jared Bush is an unbelievable filmmaker and a proficient govt who’s been a distinguished artistic drive at Disney Animation for the previous decade, and I’m thrilled that he’ll be taking the reins of this storied studio,” Bergman mentioned. “I additionally wish to thank Jennifer Lee for her passionate management of the studio over the previous a number of years – she’s made an indelible mark on each Disney Animation and the business. I do know she has so many extra tales to inform, and there’s actually nobody higher suited to supervise the continuation of the beloved story of Frozen.”
“I’m so deeply grateful to Bob Iger and Alan Bergman for his or her religion in me, and grateful to Jennifer for her management and for her beneficiant assist as she embarks on the following chapters of Frozen,” mentioned Bush. “Disney Animation is dwelling to a number of the best tales and characters of the previous century, and I’m so excited to work with all of our filmmakers, artists, and Disney Animation workforce members as we form the way forward for this legendary studio collectively.”
Stated Lee, “I’m so grateful to Bob and Alan for supporting my choice to return to filmmaking full time. Each day working with them is a grasp class in creativity, enterprise, neighborhood, and integrity. I’ve at all times believed in Jared’s unbelievable expertise and may’t wait to see, along with his ardour and dedication to animation, what he brings to the CCO function. For me, attending to collaborate with this studio of artists, animators, and storytellers is such a privilege, and I sit up for all we’ll create collectively.”
As CCO, the decade-Disney vet Bush will steer the artistic output of Disney animation throughout movies, sequence, and related tasks. Bush wrote and directed Encanto and served as EP on Raya and the Final Dragon. He was additionally co-director/co-writer on 2016’s Oscar-winning Zootopia, author of the unique Oscar-nominated hit Moana, and obtained an Emmy Award for Zootopia+. He serves as a author and EP on the upcoming Moana 2 hitting theaters on Nov. 27, and he’s directing and writing Zootopia 2 set to open on Nov. 26, 2025.
Lee is the Oscar-winning screenwriter and director behind the Frozen franchise. Lee joined Disney in 2011 as co-writer of the Oscar-nominated Wreck-It Ralph, was concerned in story constructing for Zootopia, served as EP on Encanto, Want, Raya and the Final Dragon and the upcoming Moana 2. She additionally oversaw Disney Animation’s first foray into animated sequence, together with Baymax, the first-of-its-kind sequence Iwájú, and Zootopia+, for which she obtained an Emmy Award, and she or he is the Tony-nominated author of the guide for the Broadway musical Frozen.
