When Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning) mistakenly identifies Maleficent as her “fairy godmother,” Jolie ... the timeless power of art. To watch “Sleeping Beauty” again after all these ...

The trailers teased glimpses of Sleeping Beauty‘s iconic villainess ... This was what you could expect from Maleficent — Disney’s early bid for summer-film dominance, and an inside-out ...

Of all Disney heroines, Aurora, aka Sleeping Beauty ... but suffice it to say that Maleficent doesn't just rehabilitate the most maligned figure in the fairy tale canon and place brackets around ...

Maleficent, Disney’s latest bid for box office gold, seeks to restore some of the darkness to Sleeping ... of the fairy tale’s secrets of survival and there are feminist readings (Beauty ...

Aurora, also known as Sleeping Beauty, feels like she’s ... she forms a deep bond with Maleficent, challenging the ...

Disney’s revisionist “Maleficent” took the “Sleeping Beauty” story that inspired ... even sympathetic portrait of a fairy scorned so badly by a faithless lover that the betrayal twisted ...

altruistic fairy of the moors all the way to her role in the Sleeping Beauty story. Maleficent has always been one of the most terrifying Disney villains. Eerily green and guilty of luring ...

Disney’s Sleeping Beauty begins with the three good fairies blessing baby Princess Aurora with one gift, but fairy Merryweather is interrupted by Maleficent, forcing her to change her original gift.

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: Mistress of Evil, followed in 2019. The films serve as a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale from the perspective of the story's villain, who puts a curse on the infant ...

Everything is perfectly fine until an uninvited guest appears, the evil fairy Maleficent. Maleficent curses the young princess by announcing that she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel's ...