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Maleficent earned a gross of $241.4 million in the US and Canada, and $517.1 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $758.5 million against a budget of $180 million. [2] Calculating in all expenses, Deadline Hollywood estimated that the film made a profit of $190.77 million, making it the sixth most profitable film of 2014. [ 111 ]
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]
Maleficent prepares to leave but also decides to give a "gift" to Aurora by cursing her: before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle and die. Merryweather then uses her gift to weaken the curse so that instead of dying, Aurora will only sleep until she awakens to true love's kiss.
Jolie played Maleficent, while Fanning played Princess Aurora, the Sleeping Beauty. [28] The same year, she appeared in the independent science-fiction Western Young Ones and starred in the biographical Low Down , about the life of jazz pianist Joe Albany , in which she plays the role of Albany's daughter, Amy-Jo, from whose perspective the ...
Maleficent arrives and sacrifices herself to save Aurora from an arrow, but she rises again as a phoenix and saves Aurora after Queen Ingrith throws her off the tower. Disney
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]
Elle Fanning as Aurora, Maleficent's pure-hearted and free-spirited surrogate daughter and the current ruler of the Moors, who is engaged to Prince Philip. [1] Harris Dickinson as Prince Philip, the Prince of Ulstead and Aurora's husband. He was portrayed by Brenton Thwaites in the first film.
“Sleeping Beauty,” the film that inspired the first “Maleficent,” never got any sort of sequel from Disney — unlike, say, “The Little Mermaid,” which got both a sequel and prequel ...