Angelina Jolie as Bida-Kontra Bida

Maleficent

Opening across the Philippines this coming May 30, 2014 is the movie Angelina Jolie lead – Maleficent. Check the trailer below and let’s see if this gives you the liking to watch the movie:

Maleficent in the movie Maleficent is portrayed by Angelina Jolie. Directed by Robert Stromberg an Academy award winner for Best Art Direction (oh by the way, it’s his debut directorial movie) and he is a well-known special effects artist and designer in the industry. His extensive credits include James Cameron’s Avatar, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and most recently, Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great.

Run Time: 97 mins

Release Dates: May 28, 2014 (UK)

                           May 29, 2014 (Brazil)

                           May 30, 2014 (US and Philippines)

Budget:  $180M 

Trivia:

Do you know that Maleficent is one of the most sinister villains in Disney? Maleficent who is the Disney’s version of the wicked fairy god mother from the original French fairy tale, La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault and Little Briar Rose by The Brother Grimm. She appeared first in Sleeping Beauty  in 1959. She also appeared on Kingdom Hearts, Disney’s House of Mouse, Fantasmic!, Kingdom Keepers, Dream Along With Mickey, Mickey Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, Walt Disney’s World on Ice, Disney Divas, Mickey Mousecapade, Timon and Pumbaa, World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion, Once Upon a Time, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, and Disney Descendants.

She is also known as Mistress of all Evil or Embodiment of Evil.

Her father was Lysander and her mother was Hermia and a god mother to Princess Aurora.

Have blessed Sunday! See you at the Cinema!

What's Coming this June 26th...?

Paramount released their payoff trailer for their next coming film - TRANSFORMER IV (based on Hasbro) even there has been negative comments from the previous Transformers: Dark of the Moon, it was announced last February 13, 2012:

If you're an avid fan of Transformer from it's old cartoon series to the HD cinematography and animation or visual effect - film, above trailer video is for you. The payoff trailer is for the upcoming TRANSFORMERS: Age of Extinction movie of Paramount which will be shown in Cinemas this coming June 26th.

TRANSFORMERS: Age of Extinction movie will premiere in Indonesia/Philippines this coming June 25, 2014 and will be shown in the US on the 26th of June. The movie is again directed by Michael Bay and executive produced by Stephen Spielberg with a budget of $165M.

Before watching this movie with your movie-buddy or your girlfriend/boyfriend, friends, and/or family you might want to look back at the previous Transformer movies:

The first Transformers was premiered in Sydney last June 12, 2007 which runs for about 144 minutes hitting box office of $709M. It was aired in US on the 3rd of July on the same year.

The second Transformers movie (TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen) was released in United Kingdom last June 19, 2009 which running 149 minutes and was released in US on the 24th of June, 2009. It earned about $836M from its budget of $200M.

The third and most controversial Transformers movie has premiered in Moscow, Russia last 23rd of June, 2011 with the length of 154 mins. It was shown in US six (6) days after. TRANSFORMERS: Dark of the Moon was the highest grosser as of all Transformers movie earning $1.123B as of this time.

Let us see if Transformer 3 will be topped by this coming Transformers: Age of the Extinct.


Happy watching and reading! Enjoy your Saturday!