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Maleficent (/ m ə ˈ l ɛ f ɪ s ən t / or / m ə ˈ l ɪ f ɪ s ən t /) is a fictional character who first appears in Walt Disney Productions' animated film, Sleeping Beauty (1959). Maleficent is the self-proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil" based on the evil fairy godmother character in Charles Perrault's fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, [3] as well as the villainess who appears in the Brothers ...
Maleficent finished its debut weekend at first place with $69.4 million [112] ($6.7 million of which was earned from IMAX locations and 35% of which was earned from 3D showings), [122] [123] which exceeded Disney's expectations of a $60 million [124] and making it the largest opening-weekend performance for a live-action film starring Jolie (a ...
In Disney's 1959 animated version of Sleeping Beauty, the wicked fairy, Maleficent is a dark, almost Satan-like figure who calls herself the "Mistress of all Evil". When not invited to the royal christening, she lays a curse on the princess (named Aurora here, as in Tchaikovsky's ballet) to die on her sixteenth birthday for not being invited to ...
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil might not have matched the first movie at the box office, but it still grossed nearly $500 million worldwide. It's likely that if Disney wants to continue the story ...
Produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Roth/Kirschenbaum Films, it is a sequel to Maleficent (2014), itself a live-action retelling of Walt Disney's 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty, and the second installment in the Maleficent film series.
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]
This list does not include remakes/legacy sequels of live-action/animation hybrid films (such as Pete's Dragon and Mary Poppins Returns), the direct-to-video movie The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story, animated feature films that were produced by another studio and later adapted as live-action feature films by Disney, live-action feature films ...
The 2014 live-action version of Maleficent is a playable character in the Disney Infinity video game series, beginning with Disney Infinity 2.0 (2015). [9] As with the other playable characters in the game, a tie-in figure for Maleficent was also released.