Frozen tells the story of a Scandinavian princess who tries to save her kingdom after the queen - her sister - accidentally uses her magic powers to freeze the country Disney animation Frozen has toppled Hunger Games: Catching Fire off the top of the US box office chart in its second week of release.
According to early estimates, Frozen took $31.6m (£19.3m) over the weekend, with the Hunger Games sequel slipping to second place with $27m (£16.5m).
The only new wide release was Out of the Furnace, which took $5.3m (£3.2m) to earn third place.
The steel-town drama stars Christian Bale and Casey Affleck.
Marvel's Thor: The Dark World and Vince Vaughn's Delivery Man rounded out the top five.
The weekend was typically quiet placed between Thanksgiving and Christmas, however takings were still up 16.9% on last year.
Despite opening in just four cinemas the Coen brothers' latest film, Inside Llewyn Davis, scored one of the year's highest per-cinema averages, taking $100,500 (£61,300).
Box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian said this year's takings may surpass the $10.8bn (£6.6bn) made at the 2012 box office.
"We're running just slightly ahead of last year's record pace, it's going to be really close," he said.
Next week sees the release of Peter Jackson's second Hobbit film, The Hobbit: The Desolation of the Smaug.
The first, An Unexpected Journey, debuted with $84.6m (£51.6m) last year.
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom continued to play in four cinemas in its second week of release, averaging $19,400 (£11,800) per cinema.
The Weinstein Company said it would not be altering the film's release following the death of Nelson Mandela on Thursday.
The film will open across the US at Christmas.
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