Legendary special effects makeup artist Rick Baker announced that he’s already hard at work designing Angelia Jolie’s look for Disney’s upcoming film Maleficent.
Said Baker:
They’re just starting that now. I designed the makeup for Angelina Jolie. At this point, I’m actually finished with that part of it.
While there are no confirmed details about how Maleficent will look translated to live-action, Angelina Jolie did confirm in a past interview that the iconic horns would remain.
Maleficent will be in theaters March 14, 2014.
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This week, Walt Disney Studios released a brand new trailer for the upcoming film The Odd Life of Timothy Green in honor of Mother’s Day. The new trailer, which features an introduction by Jennifer Garner, gives us more footage and information about this new film than ever before.
The Odd Life of Timothy Green features Garner and Joel Edgerton as a young couple who, after being told that they cannot have children, can only imagine what their dream child would be like. When this dream child, Timothy, arrives on their doorstep, …

It’s official: Jon Hamm of Mad Men is slated to play the lead role in Disney’s upcoming baseball flick Million Dollar Arm.
The film follows sports agent J.B. Bernstein on his quest to discover baseball talent in India, where he recruits two cricket players – Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel – to play for a professional baseball team. Based on a true story, Million Dollar Man was written by Thomas McCarthy and will be produced by Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray, Joe Roth and Palak Patel.
Production on the film is set …

With Disney’s The Avengers breaking box office records – grossing $207.4 million in its opening weekend – it’s no surprise that Disney officially announced plans for a sequel yesterday.
After the disappointing profit loss from John Carter, Disney was counting on The Avengers to make up for it. It’s safe to say that this film, which has earned more than $700 million worldwide, has done just that.
When Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that the sequel was already in development, he also spoke a bit about the success of the first film:
Obviously, …

Last week, we brought you the news of The Avengers‘ record-setting grosses in countries all around the world. This weekend, however, the film made its US debut and its box office records were brought to soaring new heights. Grossing $200.3 million over the past three days, The Avengers successfully overtook Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 to have the highest-grossing domestic debut of all time.
Earning a rare perfect A+ CinemaScore from moviegoers, The Avengers has become the fastest movie to earn $200 million domestically. The film earned $80.5 …

A few weeks ago, we let you know that Princess Merida from the upcoming Pixar film Brave will soon be getting her own meet-and-greet in both Disneyland Park and Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. This week, however, the character made her first Disney Parks appearance in Epcot, coming out to greet Walt Disney World guests for the first time.
Although this does not appear to be a regular meet-and-greet, guests may be able to find Merida here in Epcot sporadically before her permanent location in the Magic Kingdom opens in a …

Last year, we brought you news of a new Disney Channel Original Movie Let It Shine, a modern-day take on the classic story Cyrano de Bergerac. The film premieres this summer and we’ve just heard that Dawnn Lewis, best known for her role on A Different World, will be playing a preacher’s wife who also happens to be the mother of the main character.
The gospel-themed musical introduces us to Cyrus DeBarge, a musically gifted teen who writes rap verses to the girl he’s interested in. Unfortunately, Cyrus’s friend claims the …

Disney recently announced that they’ve acquired the film rights to author Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, a 2008 novel that has won several literary awards since its publication.
The novel has been shopped to various studios the past several several years, but hasn’t gone anywhere. Now, Disney will have a shot at adapting the popular novel for the big screen.
The Graveyard Book chronicles the life of a boy named Nobody Owens. His family is killed when he is a toddler, so Nobody is raised by ghosts in a cemetery. Once Nobody …

While Marvel’s newest film The Avengers doesn’t open in the United States for another few days, the film is already making a huge splash overseas. Having already opened in 39 countries worldwide, the film has taken in $178.4 million overseas so far, breaking numerous box office records in countries across the globe.
The Avengers took the #1 spot at the box office during its opening weekend in all 39 countries. In Latin America, the film earned the distinction of having the biggest opening weekend ever in such countries as Mexico and …

With so many computer animated films coming out in the near future from Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, hand-drawn animation has seemingly been put on the back burner. But this week, Disney’s Animation Research Library revealed an interesting hint that a new Disney hand-drawn animated film may be coming in the near future.
On their official Facebook page, the Walt Disney Animation Studios Animation Research Library wished a happy birthday to Ron Clemens, an animator, writer, and director who has served as the co-director on such classic films as The …