Jolie, who said she didn’t need to look beyond the villainess in Disney’s animated classic Sleeping Beauty for inspiration (the onscreen laugh we see in Maleficent is actually a blend of Jolie ...

“There is evil in this world, hatred and revenge,” Maleficent says in a voiceover as Aurora is mesmerized by a spindle. The teaser ends with an evil laugh from Maleficent. Maleficent hits ...

The wings are neat, too. Oh -- and that laugh. The Maleficent laugh. It's in there too. On Thursday, Disney showcased Pfeiffer, Jolie and Fanning in a special triptych poster (which is basically ...

Some of them stick with laugh-out-loud hilarity ... as Angelina Jolie takes on Disney’s all-time scariest villain in “Maleficent,” the horny “Sleeping Beauty” succubus that’s horrified ...

Maleficent is a well-intentioned, but unevenly executed endeavor. It feels as though Disney built a film around the tantalizing notion of Angelina Jolie playing this at once beloved and reviled ...

Maleficent, the story of a sinister fairy with vengeance issues, opens with visual panache. But it fails to live up to its early promise, mostly because of an uneven tone and murky character ...

“Maleficent” wasn’t especially good, but it scared up enough money to conjure a sequel. Happily, this five-years-later follow-up, “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil,” flies a bit higher ...

She is the meanest woman ever to get her own plush toy. Maleficent, the wicked fairy from “Sleeping Beauty” who condemns the infant Princess Aurora to die, is the protagonist of a new movie ...

This time around, the studio put the focus on the 1959 classic's main villain, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie, in one of her best movie roles), in a self-titled prequel film. The Robert Stromberg ...

Jolie, who said she didn’t need to look beyond the villainess in Disney’s animated classic Sleeping Beauty for inspiration (the onscreen laugh we see in Maleficent is actually a blend of Jolie and ...