Frozen (2013 film) billion, and Lasseter was promoted to chief creative officer of both Pixar and Disney Animation. The next attempt started in 2008, when Lasseter was able to convince Chris Buck (who co-directed the 1999 film "Tarzan" for the studio) to return to Walt Disney Animation Studios from Sony Pictures Animation (where he had recently co-directed the Oscar-nominated 2007 film "Surf's Up"); that September, Buck pitched several ideas to Lasseter, one of which was "The Snow Queen". Buck later revealed that his initial inspiration for "The Snow Queen" was not the Andersen fairy tale itself, but that he wanted "to do something
Frozen (2013 film) in fall 2014. On September 2, 2014, ABC broadcast "The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic", a one-hour "making of" television special. At the end of the special, Lasseter announced that the production team would be reuniting to make "Frozen Fever", a short film which debuted in theaters with Disney's "Cinderella" on March 13, 2015. On September 4, 2014, Feld Entertainment's Disney on Ice presented the world premiere of a touring ice skating show based on the film at Amway Center in Orlando, Florida. During the airing of "The Making of Frozen: Return to Arendelle" on ABC, it