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Maleficent was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on Blu-ray, DVD, Blu-ray 3D, and digital download on November 4, 2014. [153] The film topped the home-video sales chart in its first week of release. [154] As of February 2015, Maleficent has made over $74 million in total home-video sales. [155]
Maleficent is a live-action adaptation/retelling of 1959's animated film Sleeping Beauty, from the eponymous antagonist. [1] In 2003, [2] during Don Hahn's meeting with Disney's animation department, it was suggested to create an origin film about Maleficent from Disney's animated film Sleeping Beauty in the same vein as then just released Broadway musical Wicked. [3]
The character was animated by Marc Davis, who also animated Aurora in the film. She was aptly named "Maleficent" (an adjective derived from the Latin maleficentia, which means "doing evil or harm"), [7] and may have been based on earlier French and European myths and legends about the fairy Mélusine, especially in the 2014 live-action film of the same name. [8]
Disney’s first live-action Maleficent film, starring Jolie as the evil fairy who curses Sleeping Beauty, earned $759.9 million worldwide in its 2014 release, while “Maleficent: Mistress of ...
Maleficent: co-production with Roth Films: July 18, 2014: Planes: Fire & Rescue: co-production with Disneytoon Studios: September 19, 2014: Khoobsurat * co-production with UTV Motion Pictures, Disney India and Anil Kapoor Films: October 10, 2014: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
In 2015, the movie received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design, and a sequel, called Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, was released in 2019. Watch on Disney+ 8.
Everything you need to know about Maleficent 3, including cast, potential release date and how Maleficent: Mistress of Evil sets it up.
Zanelli said that "the storytelling in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is fantastic", for which he said that "writing [the film's] score is a dream come true". [34] On September 20, 2019, the song "You Can't Stop the Girl" by Bebe Rexha, from the film's soundtrack, was released as a single. [35]