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Sleeping Beauty: Diamond Edition Rated G Available on DVD and Blu - ray To prepare the way for its November 4 DVD release of Angelina Jolie starrer Maleficent, Disney is finally releasing its classic animated film Sleeping Beauty in high def.

There is a point to Julia Leigh's debut film Sleeping Beauty.

Not exact matches

Translated, rewritten, retold, the stories have often changed their character, and while some — Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, for example — have become classics of children's literature and Hollywood films, many of the stories originally collected have fallen into obscurity.

The overall style of Sleeping Beauty is also more modern than that of the older Disney fairy tales; both figures and backgrounds are somewhat sharp edged and angular, in the manner of 1950s commercial art, rather than softly rounded as in the earlier films.

-- upcoming Oz - themed films), as well as impending adult takes on the Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, another Hansel and Gretel movie, two Sleeping Beauty movies, two Pinocchio movies and an Arabian Nights update.

We love revisiting the favorite films from our childhood or teen years — tell me I'm not the only one that has watched a Disney movie while officially an adult... (I still love Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty — those drawings, the music!

In addition, the film features a massive, gold - plated voice cast including Cameron Diaz (Princess Fiona), Julie Andrews (the queen), John Cleese (the king), Eric Idle (Merlin), John Krasinski (Lancelot), Ian McShane (Captain Hook), Cheri Oteri (Sleeping Beauty), Amy Poehler (Snow White), Maya Rudolph (Rapunzel), Regis Philbin (Mable) and Larry King (Doris).

Back in Never Never Land, the film scores some laughs from Amy Sedaris and «Saturday Night Live» veterans Cheri Oteri, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and Rapunzel, here conceived as spoiled prima donnas who eventually morph into fierce warriors.

For Disney to duplicate its 2013 success, it will need films like Sleeping Beauty spin - off Maleficent, video game adaptation Need for Speed, and musical Into the Woods to be major hits, and that doesn't seem likely.

So far, Disney has made remakes of «Alice in Wonderland,» «Sleeping Beauty,» «Cinderella» and «The Jungle Book,» all of which are Disney films from the»50s and»60s.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, hosting for the third and what they maintain was the final time, skewered Hollywood vanity, ageism and the film «The Interview,» saving their most cutting jokes for last when they laid into Bill Cosby in a bit that began with an «Into the Woods» riff («Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby») and ended with the two imitating the embattled comedian's trademark cadence.

Many people point to Sleeping Beauty (1959) as the last film in the Golden Age of Disney Animation and consider the seven full - length animated features that the House of Mouse made over the next three decades to be lesser accomplishments.

Here's another awesome promo photo from the upcoming film «Sucker Punch» by director Zack Snyder (Xerxes, Superman: Man of Steel, Watchmen) and starring Emily Browning (Sleeping Beauty, Darkness Falls), Abbie Cornish (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole), Jena Malone (The Messenger, The Ruins), Carla Gugino (Entourage, Faster) and Vanessa Hudgens (Beastly).

Here's the latest character posters for the upcoming film «Sucker Punch» by director Zack Snyder (Xerxes, Superman: Man of Steel, Watchmen) and starring Emily Browning (Sleeping Beauty, Darkness Falls), Abbie Cornish (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole), Jena Malone (The Messenger, The Ruins), Carla Gugino (Entourage, Faster) and Vanessa Hudgens (Beastly).

, the film takes the classic Disney tale of SLEEPING BEAUTY and turns it on its head, showing us the perspective of wicked queen Maleficent.

Walt Disney Pictures has just released the first poster for their upcoming film Maleficent, the un-told story of Disney's most iconic vilian from 1959's Sleeping Beauty.

You'll be thinking the same thing when the film descends into borrowing a scene straight from Sleeping Beauty during the climax.

I will grant you that Sleeping Beauty is the most beautiful film in the Disney canon, but Hanz Zimmer's award winning score coupled with some fantastic direction makes «Lion King» the best.

But since Sleeping Beauty is the best Disney film, doesn't it also have to be the best one since the 40s as well?

Of course, Sleeping Beauty was derived from the original French fairytale, but this film is clearly using the animated Disney adaptation as its jumping - off point.

Even for its time, Sleeping Beauty is a slight film, leaving Maleficent screenwriter Linda Woolverton (The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and the aforementioned Tim Burton Alice) and first - time director Robert Stromberg to do some padding.

Maleficent is, at its core, a very derivative film: apart from Sleeping Beauty, it cribs liberally from Beauty and the Beast, Frozen and even Avatar.

In describing the film Into The Woods, the comedian drew cheers and gasps by alluding to allegations that Cosby drugged and raped women: «Cinderella ran away from her prince, Rapunzel was thrown from a tower... and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.»

Maleficent doles out some surprises in its second half, becoming its own film while still being worthy of the title Sleeping Beauty.

Ratatouille — Director Brad Bird's best film to date, and certainly the best Pixar movie, if not the best Disney - related film since Sleeping Beauty, this story of a rat who wants to be a chef gets to the core of what it means to be an artist.

As well as covering the literature and animated film of the story of «Sleeping Beauty», this book also touches (I use that lightly, since «Maleficent» could have fill a book on its own) on the new film «Maleficent» with interviews with Angelina Jolie, Imelda Staunton, Linda Woolverton, Sean Bailey, Joe Roth, Don Hahn, and director Robert Stromberg (Oscar - winning art director of Avatar and Alice in Wonderland).

«Walt Disney Records The Legacy Collection: Sleeping Beauty» is a 2 disc set, which features the classic songs and score from the film as well as studio recordings of Princess Aurora's songs performed by Mary Costa, and never before released demos and tracks.

She represents some kind of ideal of perfect virgin beauty, and the film's opening shots, in which a photographer on a plane sees her sleeping and takes closeups of her lips and crotch, set the tone.

The film follows a rising rock star («Sleeping Beauty» actress Emily Browning) who runs headlong into a downward spiral when her brother and band mate dies from a drug overdose.

The film tells the story of how the Sleeping Beauty villain went bad.

It's lit like something out of Sleeping Beauty, with obvious artificial light (which we see again as moonbeams during a prison sequence) that casts the entire film in a sense of heightened reality.

The Buzz: This film's trailer contained more than a few subtle hints that Sleeping Beauty was to enact some very sinister sexual episodes, and a very creepy / harsh vibe was diffused throughout.

After «Sleeping Beauty» was completed, Tyler was offered «a tiny little cameo» in the new Woody Allen film.

Disney let it leak two years ago that one of the things they had stewing in their pot was a live - action movie featuring Maleficent, the villain (and fan favorite of everybody who found Sleeping Beauty «s heroine a little flat) of one of Disney's most historically important animated films.

Linda Woolverton's screenplay is wonderfully subversive in the tradition of Gregory Maguire's «Wicked», and it will definitely make you think twice about the motivations of the king next time you watch Sleeping Beauty, even if that film had no hints of any ulterior motives.

My significant other's favourite Disney animation is 1959's Sleeping Beauty, so this film was always a must see for our household.

by Walter Chaw A gyno - centric reimagining of Disney's own Sleeping Beauty, visual - effects guy Robert Stromberg's directorial debut Maleficent (from a script by never - good Disney house - overwriter Linda Woolverton) takes all the ingredients for a horrible disaster and somehow wrestles a fitfully fascinating film from them.

Pictures released four new movie trailers for the upcoming film «Sucker Punch» by director Zack Snyder (Xerxes, Superman: Man of Steel, Watchmen) and starring Emily Browning (Sleeping Beauty, Darkness Falls), Abbie Cornish (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole), Jena Malone (The Messenger, The Ruins), Carla Gugino (Entourage, Faster) and Vanessa Hudgens (Beastly).

However, the Mouse House's Sleeping Beauty film doesn't have an A-list director; it's banking on the name of its leading lady, Oscar - winner Angelina Jolie.

Among them is the erotic drama Sleeping Beauty, the directorial debut of novelist Julia Leigh which stars Emily Browning in a daring role; A Separation, the Asghar Farhadi directed drama which won the film and ensemble acting awards at the Berlin Film Festival; and the much awaited return of master filmmaker Terrence Malick, with his anticipated drama The Tree of Life starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, finally making its way to our screens.

Yes, Disney has already given us live - action versions of animated films like Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and The Jungle Book in recent years — and lest we forget, this isn't a brand - new idea (101 Dalmatians!)

Check out three new movie stills from the upcoming film «Sucker Punch» by director Zack Snyder (Xerxes, Superman: Man of Steel, Watchmen) and starring Emily Browning (Sleeping Beauty, Darkness Falls), Abbie Cornish (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole), Jena Malone (The Messenger, The Ruins), Carla Gugino (Entourage, Faster) and Vanessa Hudgens (Beastly).

Walt Disney's classic fairytale Sleeping Beauty reawakens (for a limited time) in this 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition, presented in its original 70 mm film aspect ratio.

In the recently completed Sleeping Beauty, her most controversial film to date (which polarized audiences at this year's Cannes Film Festival), her character works in a kind of high - end prostitution that involves no sex but requires her to be fondled by strangers while in a sedated state — until curiosity about what happens to her while she is «sleeping» gets the betterSleeping Beauty, her most controversial film to date (which polarized audiences at this year's Cannes Film Festival), her character works in a kind of high - end prostitution that involves no sex but requires her to be fondled by strangers while in a sedated state — until curiosity about what happens to her while she is «sleeping» gets the bettersleeping» gets the better of her.

Pivotal moment of «Sleeping Beauty» re-imagined in live - action Disney film that puts classic villainess Malifecent at center of story

Along with games (Fun With English and Briar Rose Enchanted Dance Game), song selections and a music video (Emily Osment croons an updated version of Once Upon a Dream), there are two additional Disney productions: The Peter Tchaikovsky Story (a dramatization of the composer's life which aired as an episode of the Walt Disney TV show to introduce the studio's upcoming release of Sleeping Beauty) and Grand Canyon (the award - winning short film featuring panoramic vistas that accompanied Sleeping Beauty's theatrical run).

Best animated short film: French Roast, A Pumpkin Factory / Bibo Films Production, Fabrice O. Joubert Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty (Brown Bag Films), A Brown Bag Films Production, Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte), A Kandor Graphics and Green Moon Production, Javier Recio Gracia Logorama (Autour de Minuit), An Autour de Minuit Production, Nicolas Schmerkin A Matter of Loaf and Death (Aardman Animations), An Aardman Animations Production, Nick Park

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Also, new Disney - related are being introduced with their own special set - ups, including Maleficent from the Sleeping Beauty universe (as well as the recent Angelina Jolie film) and Merida from the Pixar - animated Brave.

With the use of his patented «multiplane camera,» he attained a stunningly realistic illusion of three - dimensional space in his feature - length animated films, including Pinocchio, Bambi, and Sleeping Beauty.