Maleficent Mistress of Evil – Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.
Angelina Jolie is back as the classic Disney villain in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, set several years after the live-action reimagining of Sleeping Beauty. Disney will be hoping for more of the same from the sequel after the original grossed an impressive $758.5 million worldwide back in 2014, more than four times the reported budget of $180 million Mistress of Evil.
Mistress of Evil : The sequel was originally set to arrive on May 29, 2020, before Disney surprisingly announced that the release date was being moved forward by seven months.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil will now arrive on October 18, 2019 and we’ve got a poster and trailer to boot.
wikipedia Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is a 2019 American 3D fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Joachim Rønning, and written by Linda Woolverton, Micah Fitzerman-Blue, and Noah Harpster. It is a sequel to the 2014 film Maleficent,[1] with Angelina Jolie returning to portray the title role. Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville also return to their previous roles, with Harris Dickinson replacing Brenton Thwaites from the first film and Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ed Skrein and Michelle Pfeiffer joining the cast as new characters.
After the release of the first film in May 2014, Jolie stated a sequel was possible. The project was officially announced the following June, and Jolie signed on in April 2016. Rønning, who co-directed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) for Disney, was hired to direct the film in October 2017, and the rest of the cast was added or confirmed in May 2018, with filming beginning that month at Pinewood Studios in England, lasting through August.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil was released in the United States on October 18, 2019. It grossed over $491 million worldwide, although it needed to make around $500 million in order to make a profit when factoring in total budget, marketing and distribution costs.[5] The film received mixed reviews from critics, with criticism aimed at the “muddled plot and overly artificial visuals”, but praise for the performances of Jolie, Fanning and Pfeiffer.[6] The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 92nd Academy Awards.