The Sleeping Beauty/Maleficent "Sleeping Beauty" is a traditional Disney animated film known for its colourful, enchanting visuals and fairy tale atmosphere.

Maleficent, out Friday, is the origin tale of Disney’s most popular cartoon villain from 1959’s Sleeping Beauty, and stars Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley and Sam Riley.With a ...

Many early Disney princesses, including Sleeping Beauty, were passive, but Elle Fanning's Aurora is anything but in ...

Maleficent, the enchanting live-action reworking of the 1959 animated Disney classic Sleeping Beauty, has all the touchstones you remember: The spinning wheel, the poisoned needle, ...

The 36-year-old actress will portray the title role in the movie, an update of the 1959 "Sleeping Beauty" animated feature. The upcoming film will explore "the origins of the evil fairy Maleficent ...

Maleficent, the story of a sinister fairy with vengeance issues, ... Billed as the untold story of the malevolent character from the 1959 animated Disney movie Sleeping Beauty, ...

Earlier this spring, before this weekend’s release of Disney’s big-budget, live-action movie “Maleficent,” some observers were worried the film might be too scary for young … ...

On one level, it’s silly to complain about Disney’s revision of Maleficent, the evil queen from its own 1959 “Sleeping Beauty.” After all, that animated classic was a highly sanitized ...

The real Maleficent: The surprising human face behind the “Sleeping Beauty” villain Move over, Angelina Jolie. I've uncovered the long-forgotten model for the original cartoon witch ...

Linda Woolverton, who wrote the first film, is in talks to pen the live-action sequel, and Angelina Jolie is likely to return to star.