Maleficent | |
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Directed by | Robert Stromberg |
Produced by | Joe Roth |
Starring | Angelina Jolie Sharlto Copley Elle Fanning Sam Riley Imelda Staunton Juno Temple Lesley Manville |
Music by | James Newton Howard |
Cinematography | Dean Semler |
Editing by | Chris Lebenzon Richard Pearson |
Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
Release | May 30, 2014 |
Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $180 million |
Gross revenue | $747,841,302 |
Maleficent is a 2014 American fantasy film directed by Robert Stromberg from a screenplay by Linda Woolverton. Starring Angelina Jolie as the eponymous Disney villainess character, the film is a live-action re-imagining of Walt Disney's 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty, and portrays the story from the perspective of the antagonist, Maleficent.
Principal photography took place between June and October 2012. The film premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on May 28, 2014, and was released in the United Kingdom that same day. It was released by Walt Disney Pictures in the U.S. on May 30, 2014 in the Disney Digital 3D, RealD 3D, and IMAX 3D formats, as well as in conventional theaters. The film was met with mixed reviews from critics, but was a commercial success, having grossed over $747 million worldwide.
Cast[]
- Angelina Jolie as Maleficent, the queen fairy of the Moors who casts a death-like sleep curse on Princess Aurora
- Ella Purnell and Isobelle Molloy as young Maleficent
- Elle Fanning as Princess Aurora, daughter of King Stefan and princess of the human kingdom
- Vivienne Jolie-Pitt] and Eleanor Worthington Cox as young Princess Aurora
- Janet McTeer as elderly Aurora (the film's narrator)
- Sharlto Copley as King Stefan, ruler of the human kingdom and Aurora's father
- Michael Higgins as young Stefan
- Sam Riley as Diaval, a raven shapeshifter and Maleficent's confidant.
- Imelda Staunton as Knotgrass, a pink pixie charged with raising Aurora in secret until her 16th birthday.
- Juno Temple as Thistlewit, a green pixie charged with raising Aurora in secret until her 16th birthday.
- Lesley Manville as Flittle, a blue pixie charged with raising Aurora in secret until her 16th birthday.
- Brenton Thwaites as Phillip, a young prince who falls in love with Aurora while traveling through the forest.
- Kenneth Cranham as King Henry, a monarch determined to conquer the forest realm.
- Hannah New as Queen Leila, King Henry's daughter who marries Stefan, and Aurora's mother.
External links[]
- Maleficent at the Internet Movie Database
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