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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Screenwriter Linda Woolverton on Shaping Strong Female Leads

She’s back! Maleficent, the great horned fairy, is lighting up the screen once again in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, the sequel to the 2014 Disney hit. Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning return as Maleficent and Aurora, respectively, and are joined on this journey by Michelle Pfeiffer, who portrays the villainous Queen Ingrith. When Aurora becomes engaged to the queen’s son, Ingrith sets in motion a diabolical plan to take the Moors,

By Julie Jacobs  |  October 25, 2019
Angelina Jolie is Back in Black in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Video

Sometimes the simplest promo ideas are the most effective. Hat’s off to whoever conceived of this new Maleficent: Mistress of Evil video. It’s just Angelina Jolie getting her hair and makeup done, in black and white, set to AC/DC’s “Back in Black.” It’s a time-lapse video, so we see a sped-up version of Jolie becoming the powerful fairy Maleficent in under a minute. The coup-de-grace is a moment after the large,

By The Credits  |  September 11, 2019
Angelina Jolie Breaks Bad in new Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Trailer

Angelina Jolie returns to the big screen (as an actress, that is) in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil for the first time since 2015’s By the Sea. Mistress of Evil is, of course, the sequel to 2014’s smash hit Maleficent. That film introduced us to Jolie’s titular villain, in which we found out her reasons (and there were plenty of them) for cursing her goddaughter,

By Bryan Abrams  |  July 8, 2019