Kristin Chenoweth to Play Maleficent in Disney Channel’s ‘Descendants’
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- Published on Friday, 02 May 2014 05:57
- Written by Variety
Angelina Jolie will have some competition in the Maleficent department soon. TV and stage vet Kristin Chenoweth has been tapped to play the mother of the villain from the Sleeping Beauty saga in the Disney Channel telepic “Descendants,” which revolves around the offspring of famous Mouse House villains.Chenoweth will co-star as the mother of a teenage daughter, Mal, played by budding Disney star Dove Cameron.Kenny Ortega is directing the telepic, which begins production later this month for a 2015 premiere. Josann McGibbon and Sara Parriott penned the script.Chenoweth is a Broadway regular who most recently logged a recurring guest shot role on Fox’s “Glee” and guest shots on CBS’ “The Good Wife.” She’ll topline Carnegie Hall on Saturday with a biographic concert performance dubbed “The Evolution of a Soprano.” Disney’s bigscreen rendition of “Maleficent,” toplined by Jolie, bows May 30.
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Why Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Chased Vivienne Jolie-Pitt on the Set of Maleficent
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- Published on Wednesday, 30 April 2014 06:16
- Written by Eonline
Jon Voight has yet to see Maleficent, but he's confident that his granddaughter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt will be every bit as enchanting as her mom Angelina Jolie, who plays the titular villain in the Disney film. E! News caught up with the 75-year-old actor Monday, and he lit up when asked about the 5-year-old cutie's cameo as a young Princess Aurora. (Elle Fanning, 16, plays the teenage version of the princess.) "I'm excited," Voight said at the Ray Donovan screening in North Hollywood Monday. "I don't know anything about it, but I heard some things about it that Angie had said. It was funny, when they were trying to help her in the work, you know? Apparently the people at Disney were having a lot of fun because [Brad Pitt] and Angie were running with the camera trying to get, 'Okay now smile! You're out in the field.' You know, stuff like that." (Pax Jolie-Pitt and Zahara Jolie-Pitt also have cameo roles.) In a prior interview, Jolie explained why her youngest daughter was cast. "We think it's fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That's not our goal for Brad and I at all," she told Entertainment Weekly. "But the other 3- and 4-year-old [actors] wouldn't come near me. It had to be a child that liked me and wasn't afraid of my horns and my eyes and my claws. So it had to be Viv."
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Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning Talk ‘Maleficent’ in New Featurette
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- Published on Friday, 18 April 2014 03:42
- Written by Variety
“There is evil in this world – hatred and revenge,” says Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent in the new featurette for the upcoming Disney film. The origin of this evil in the world of the animated classic “Sleeping Beauty” is precisely what Disney’s live action “Maleficent” sets out to explain. The “Legacy” featurette includes behind-the-scenes interviews with Jolie and Elle Fanning, who plays Princess Aurora, as they discuss their views of this new take on the Disney villain. “We’ve respected the classic. We’ve tried to bring you what you love about this story,” Jolie explains. “We also hope to bring a world that you’ve never seen before.” Screenwriter Linda Woolverton says the new movie explores Maleficent’s past, her motives for cursing Aurora and more – all from the villain’s point of view. “This film gives us an opportunity to find out the history of Maleficent and what drove her to the dark side,” says helmer Robert Stromberg. “Maleficent” bows in theaters May 30.
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Elle Fanning: It Was "a Dream" Working on Maleficent With Angelina Jolie, She "Really Got Into Character"
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- Published on Saturday, 19 April 2014 18:06
- Written by US magazine
Becoming a Disney princess? Check! Working with Angelina Jolie? Check! Elle Fanning got the best of both worlds while filming the upcoming Disney thriller Maleficent. The actress opened up about working with the Oscar winner as she attended the Marie Claire Fresh Faces Party in West Hollywood on Tuesday, April 8."It was super exciting. Everything was so fun," the 16-year-old, dressed in Versace at the event, told Us Weekly at Soho House. "Working with Angelina -- it's kind of a dream to say that you even met her and let alone to be in scenes with her. [It] was really really cool." "She really got into her character in a way," she added on what she learned from the star. "Like she was very, so into the details of her clothes. She came into rehearsals on the first day with her Maleficent staff and she was in normal clothes but then had that. She was like, 'I have to get used to it. It's part of my character.' I thought that was so cool." Fanning plays Princess Aurora in the live-action reboot of the 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty. Jolie enlisted her real-life daughter Vivienne Pitt, 5, to appear as a younger Aurora."I loved being Maleficent," Jolie, 38, said in Entertainment Weekly last month. "I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world." "But I did have to take my staff home to practice walking with it in my cloak," she continued. "Then I would go outside and scream at the bushes to expand my voice and play with my voice. So, mom was a bit nutso for a period." Maleficent hits theaters in May 2014.
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It's Our Lucky Day - Two New 'Maleficent' Posters Featuring Angelina Jolie Have Been Released!
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- Published on Thursday, 03 April 2014 17:41
- Written by Just Jared
It must be our lucky day because two new Maleficent posters have just been released, featuring the stars Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning.Maleficent tells the untold story of the villain from Sleeping Beauty’ and reveals the events that hardened Maleficent’s heart and drove her to curse the baby, Aurora, only to later realize that the child may hold the key to peace in the land.One poster is a banner from Yahoo, and the other is the poster for French audiences.Maleficent will hit theaters on May 30. Be sure to check out Angelina‘s amazing acting skills in the latest Maleficent trailer.
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