Earlier this month, we brought you casting news on the additions of India Eisley (Underworld: Awakening, The Secret Life of the American Teenager) and Harry Potter veterans Imelda Staunton and Miranda Richardson joining Disney’s Maleficent, a re-telling of the Sleeping [...]
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Following news last week that Sharlto Copley had been cast to star opposite Angelina Jolie in Disney’s the live-action film from the evil fairy’s point of view of the Sleeping Beauty tale, we’ve got a few more casting announcements for [...]
Read moreBoy is Sharlto Copley (District 9) in demand these days! He has not only just wrapped production on Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium where he stars with Matt Damon and Jodie Foster but Copley has also signed on to Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego’s Open [...]
Read moreLast month, we brought you a great interview with Angelina Jolie on her portrayal of Maleficent, the “Mistress of All Evil” in the flipside story focusing on the Sleeping Beauty witch. Jolie will begin working on Maleficent this summer and [...]
Read moreEarlier this month, we brought you news that Elle Fanning (Super 8, We Bought A Zoo) had been cast opposite Angelia Jolie in Disney’s flipside story focusing on the Sleeping Beauty witch, Maleficent. Unlike the trend of re-imagining fairy tales, [...]
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Angelina Jolie speaks and Disney jumped! When Jolie inferred that her next film will be “a Disney movie” while promoting her directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey at the Berlin International Film Festival, it wasn't a far [...]
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Last month, we brought you the news when Robert Stromberg was hired by Walt Disney Pictures to helm the “Mistress of All Evil” focused spin on the Sleeping Beauty story Maleficent, which is being produced by Joe Roth from a [...]
Read moreLast fall, we reported that Disney’s Maleficent enlisted the talents of producer Joe Roth (Oz: The Great and Powerful, Alice in Wonderland) to bring the fairy tale to life. Angelia Jolie has been attached to star as the “Mistress of [...]
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We brought you the news last year when Angelina Jolie decided not to reprise her role as Fox in the follow up to the Timur Bekmambetov directed adaptation of the Mark Millar and J.G. Jones comic book, Wanted. Shortly after [...]
Read moreProducer Joe Roth is no stranger to adapting fairy tales for Hollywood. In fact, one could say that he helped start with trend with Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland in 2010 that grossed over a billion dollars worldwide. Roth is [...]
Read moreLast month, we told you that director Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids 4, Machete) talked about the sequel to the 2005 adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel Sin City. At a panel at this years Comic-Con, he stated that he could [...]
Read moreAs SciFi Mafia reported last month, Tim Burton is no longer attached to direct Disney’s fairy tale feature Maleficent, centering on the evil queen of Sleeping Beauty. Walt Disney Pictures courted Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Fountain) for a while, [...]
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