Trouble in Paradise: New Trailer for Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea
Talk about a massive shift from one film to the next—Angelina Jolie's third feature as a director, the experimental By the Sea, follows her adaptation of Lauren Hillenbrand's nonfiction bestseller Unbroken. From the WWII set Unbroken, which followed the incredible true story of Olympian, soldier and eventual POW Louis Zamperini, Jolie's tackled a dark, emotionally volatile story about the dissolution of a ...
Disney’s Maleficent Creators on Giving Timeless Tale a Twist
A young princess. A fairy with a taste for revenge. A curse only broken by true love’s kiss. Based in part on the Charles Perrault medieval fairy tale “La Belle au bois dormant” (“The Beauty Asleep in the Wood”) and the story by the Brothers Grimm, 1959’s Sleeping Beauty was Walt Disney’s 16th animated feature ...
Maleficent and the Strange and Storied History of Fairy Tales
This coming Friday one of the most eagerly anticipated films ever based on a fairy tale will be casting its spell on millions. We're talking about Maleficent, of course, Disney's fresh look at one of the most iconic villains of any fantasy or fairy kingdom, played by the seemingly perfectly cast Angelina Jolie. The production design looks ...
