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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on Digital HD on December 31, 2019, followed by a 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD release on January 14, 2020. [43] Maleficent: Mistress of Evil was released on Disney+ on May 15, 2020. [44]
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]
American actress Elle Fanning played Aurora in Maleficent and its sequel. In Maleficent (2014), a live-action re-imagining of the animated film, the Sleeping Beauty story is retold from the villain's perspective. Here, Aurora is portrayed by Elle Fanning, [51] while Janet McTeer portrays a narrator who turns out to be Aurora as an elderly woman ...
Maleficent appears as a non-player character and the main antagonist in the video game Disney Magic Kingdoms, where she casts a curse on the titular Kingdom. [10] Aurora, Prince Phillip, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather appear as playable characters in the main storyline of the game. [11]
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]
Maleficent was originally scheduled for a March 14, 2014 release, before it was changed to July 2, 2014. [101] [102] By September 2013, the film's release date was preponed to May 30, 2014, as Pixar's The Good Dinosaur faced production issues and was delayed to 2015.
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Jolie's biggest commercial success, as of 2014, came with the dark fantasy film Maleficent (2014), which grossed over $758 million worldwide, and starred her in the eponymous role. [25] [26] Her subsequent directorial ventures were the war dramas Unbroken (2014) and First They Killed My Father (2017). [27] [28]