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Cinderella
…Avatar–, and from there, Disney was quick to greenlight more big budget movies based off of classic properties, mining both their own library (Maleficent) and others (Oz: The Great &… |
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Sleeping Beauty Awakes on Disney DVD and Blu-ray!
…Beauty‘s Maleficent • Chapter Three: Sara Duran-Singer on Sleeping Beauty‘s Restoration DID YOU KNOW…Merryweather was about to bestow the gift of happiness to baby Aurora before Maleficent’s intrusion? That’s just… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #76: Sleeping Beauty – Make It Pink! Make It Blue!
…are like midlevel Powerpuff Girls. • The king’s choir is always ready to serenade. • Big discussion on Maleficent, her design, her backstory and the 2014 film Maleficent. • The… |
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Dalmatians 101: Marc’s wife Alice Davis talks about her Legendary husband
…Vil in One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty and Tinker Bell in Peter Pan. He later transferred to Disney’s design and development organization as one of Disney’s… |
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Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition
…main and supporting characters, from Briar Rose/Princess Aurora, Maleficent and her Minions, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, The Royal Households, as well as Miscellaneous Characters. There is more concept art on… |
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Transformers transform box office
…2 continued its somewhat underwhelming box office run with a $13 million weekend, while Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent continued to be one of the leggiest movies of the summer with $8… |
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Simba roars mighty as The Lion King makes the record books
…The Rise of Skywalker on deck before 2019 is over, as well as a Maleficent sequel (though, as we’ve said before, the mid-October release date for that one is very… |
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2017 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…while they were stuck in one place getting their pictures taken with other folks. I particularly liked with they hooked up with a quartet of Disney villains in Maleficent (Sleeping… |
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The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition
…made, and Creeper could have stepped out from Maleficent’s army of goblins and trolls. The design harks back to classic Disney, too: the forest could have been where Bambi frolicked,… |
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Our extensive Sleeping Beauty review is up!
…Princess Aurora • Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent • Sara Duran-Singer on Sleeping Beauty‘s Restoration • Disney’s Fun Film Facts goes behind the scenes of the film Right, now… |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…of Briton Rivière’s St George And The Dragon (1908-09). Sleeping Beauty – Maleficent Dragon, Eyvind Earle, 1959 One thing I spot is that some of the setups look like cel… |
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UPDATED: Aladdin flies to a whole new world at box office
…co-production Spider-Man: Far From Home and a Maleficent sequel on deck as well (though that film, with its curious mid-October release date, may be coming out when it is primarily… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty, and Tinkerbell; Frank (Thomas) and Ollie Johnson, who did Dumbo, and Bambi, and Fantasia… they all told me of viewing the Puppetoons, how they influenced their… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…end, Narissa turns into a dragon much like Maleficent. She’s a character, too. She doesn’t loose her Disneyesque quality. She doesn’t become a drooling monster, because that’s not Disney. She… |
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Beauty and the Beast
…Stromberg’s Maleficent was another box-office hit, Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella was a faithful delight, and Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book was a visual majesty. Even David Lowery’s reimagining of Pete’s Dragon… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny
…the Queen into the beast was handled much in the same way as Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty. Also, there is a lot of technology that we had to develop for… |
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The Lion King is still in the top five after nine weeks of release
…Addams Family on October 11th, while Disney still has a Maleficent sequel down the road with a curious (and even perplexing) October 18th release date. Final figures are due tomorrow…. |
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The Addams Family scares up $30 million
…against Disney’s curiously timed Maleficent sequel this Friday. Meanwhile, Abominable continued to have a “fine” box office run, even as its gross so far has to be less than Universal… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…playing the slimy bad guy, even if it gets brought down a peg for being almost laughably politically correct with its ending. Finally, the (wrongly titled) Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil… |
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Oscar nominations announced; Frozen II shut out of Animated Feature category as I Lost My Body surprises
…Story 4 also got a nod for Randy Newman’s “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away.” In the Makeup and Hair Styling category, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil got a nomination…. |
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Meet The Eternals in first teaser trailer
…Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) as Dane Whitman, Salma Hayek (Frida) as Ajak, and Angelina Jolie (Maleficent) as Thena. The Eternals is scheduled to be released on November 5, 2021…. |
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Sleeping Beauty awakes at Animated Views!
…articles on the film: • Mary Costa speaks about her role as Princess Aurora in an interview exclusive • Marc Davis’ Maleficent collaborator Burny Mattinson reveals his animators’ secrets •… |
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New Kingdom Hearts III trailer finally arrives at E3
…for Kingdom Hearts III was revealed. It reveals the return of Hercules, Hades, Maleficent, and Pete. It was announced that a second new trailer will premiere at D23 on July… |
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Pete’s Dragon
…Fortunately, Pete’s Dragon, as understated a film as it is (though no less fantastical), didn’t require a huge budget, and though takings were lower than a Maleficent or this year’s… |
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Dragon 2 still not quite taking flight at box office
…that’s possibly getting in its way is the PG-rated Maleficent doing a lot better than many predicted, with the Angelina Jolie fairy tale now on track for a $200 million+… |
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Ten films to compete for visual effects Oscar this year
…Maleficent Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Transformers: Age of Extinction X-Men: Days of Future Past The Academy’s Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee determined the shortlist. All members… |
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The Pirate Fairy
…though that title is likely subject to change, considering recent history; then Trailers for the Sleeping Beauty: Diamond Edition Blu-ray and the tie-in film Maleficent. Proper extras start with Second… |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…another in what looks to be a growing series of live-action takes on classic Disney pictures: Angelina Jolie will debut as Maleficent in the summer, alongside the anticipated Guardians Of… |
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Dalmatians 101: “Spotting” fun facts with Andreas Deja
…ever had with a character. A lot of the time before that, he had worked on what he would called his “leading ladies”. He did Aurora and Maleficent in Sleeping… |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
…each. Notable Sneak Peeks on the disc include the new feature animation Big Hero 6 teaser, the concurrent BD release of Maleficent and the upcoming One Hundred And One Dalmatians… |
