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A Brazilian Sleeping Beauty

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Paula Mastroberti is a Brazilian comic book creator with a new graphic novel planned of her own for next year. Adormecida: cem anos para sempre is a reinvention of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, from  8INVERSO Graphics. The book tells …

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Now, A Full Length Shot Of Angelina Jolie As Maleficent

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

After yesterday’s carefully posed and colour corrected image of Angelina Jolie as Sleeping Beauty‘s villainess, the evil sorceress Maleficent, here’s a full length costume shot. It’s worth bearing in mind that paparazzi shots won’t ever do a movie costume justice. …

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First Look At Angelina Jolie As Maleficent

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Angelina Jolie has always looked a little like a cartoon character to me, so I was confident she’d make a good Maleficent. Disney have sent us this image of her in costume and make up, and I think my instincts …

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Sharlto Copley Is The King In Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent Movie

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Sharlto Copley is in the frame to play King Stefan in Maleficent, the revised Sleeping Beauty story that is going to star Angelina Jolie as the titular big bad.

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Elle Fanning Set To Sleep, Beautifully In Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Linda Woolverton‘s next script-flipping do-over of a Disney classic will be Maleficent, a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story from the point of view of the (wicked?) witch. Angelina Jolie has stayed with the project while directors have come and …

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Monday DVD Review Part One – In Time, Sleeping Beauty, And We Need To Talk About Kevin

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Here are the DVD and Blu-ray reviews as they appeared on Glide FM this morning, but there’s actually a little more to come, later on. While these actually went out, I was fast asleep having been up all night …

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Tim Burton Out, Robert Stromberg In For Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

For a while, Tim Burton was going to direct Maleficent, the topsy-turvy take on Sleeping Beauty that will refocus on the evil queen and let the docile blonde get on with sawing logs. Coming after Alice in Wonderland it would …

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The Trailer For Sleeping Beauty, The Cannes Film People Will Keep Comparing To Sucker Punch

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

Sleeping Beauty is the debut feature by Julia Leigh, and one of the more surprising choices for the Official Competition slots at Cannes. It stars Emily Browning and involves different states of consciousness and a brothel, so the Sucker Punch …

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Hailee Steinfeld’s Sleeping Beauty Don’t Need No Stinking Kiss

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Bleeding Cool Staff Writer

Kate Atherton writes for Bleeding Cool: Without doubt, one of the stars of Oscar season was Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit‘s Mattie Ross. Mattie demonstrated through word and deed that she was the equal of any hired gun when it came …

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Down With Gravity, Up With Code Name Sasha – And Sleeping Beauty Gets Back On Her Feet?

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Brendon Connelly

It looks like everybody wants to be in Gravity except Angelina Jolie, and Angelina Jolie wants to be in everything except Gravity. Having already passed on the project once, Ms. Jolie has just given Alfonso Cuaron the cold shoulder for …

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